Antonius Schröder is a senior researcher at Technische Universität Dortmund and member of the management board of Sozialforschungsstelle sfs (central scientific unit of the University of Dortmund), responsible for international research. He is co-editor of the Atlas of Social Innovation and was the coordinator of the European funded 7th Framework large scale project SI-DRIVE – Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change and has worked in and managed several European projects (mainly in the Lifelong Learning and Erasmus+ Programme). He is Vice-Chairman of Focus Group People within the European Steel Technology Platform ESTEP and Chair of the senate of the German Sociologists Association BDS.