Eva Wascher is a researcher at Social Research Centre – Central Scientific Institute of TU Dortmund University at the research unit ‘Transformative governance in municipalities and regions’. Her PhD project focuses on the social innovation labs approach as an instrument of collaborative governance. She studied Business Administration, Economics and Philosophy at Berlin School of Economics and Law, Dublin Institute of Technology and Ruhr-University Bochum. She holds an MA in “Ethics- Economics, Law and Politics (EELP)”. She has worked in the fields of social entrepreneurship, sustainable finance and social innovation.