Sonja GRUBER

Sociologist, Austria
Sonja Gruber is a sociologist and teaches at the Institute of Educational Science at Vienna University. She leads evaluations of community work projects and benefit analyses of public open spaces and presents participation processes and workshops on, inter alia, the development of democracy in Austria and Europe. She helped to initiate an intercultural neighbourhood garden in Vienna and is a consultant for social sustainability in housing. From 2002 until 2009, she provided academic support to the Austrian democracy research programme >node< – new orientations for democracy in europe.