Antonius Schröder is senior researcher and member of management board of sfs (Social Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences at the TU University Dortmund), responsible for international research. His focus is on Social Innovation (esp. combining technological and social innovation) and Vocational Education and Training. He has worked in and managed more than 30 European projects, recently co-ordinating the large scale Skills Alliance for the Green, Digital and Social Transformation of the Energy Intensive Industries (Skills4EII) and the Large Scale Partnership Energy Intensive Industries (LSP EII) under the Pact for Skills. He is Managing Director of the European School of Social Innovation ESSI, Chairman of the Focus Group People within the European Steel Technology Platform ESTEP, Leader of the Permanent Working Group “Societal Innovation” of the Advisory and Programming Group for Processes for Planet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN), and Chair of the Senate of the German Professional Association of Social Scientists (BSiD). Beneath publishing more than 80 books or articles, he is editorial member of the Atlas of Social Innovation and the Social Innovation Research Agenda.