Events: Coming up
Final KSI Conference
During the last six years the Knowledge Network on System Innovations and Transitions (KSI) examined what is needed to make a transformation towards a sustainable society. Dozens of scientists from Dutch en foreign universities and research institutes participated at this quest. That search for innovations and transitions resulted in several successful and pioneering projects and programs. Because in August 2010 KSI ends, it is time to provide a state of the art.
What is the legacy of KSI for the academic world and our society?
This question highlights the Final Conference of KSI that takes place at 3 and 4 June 2010 in Rotterdam.
| When? Where? More info? |
3-4 June 2010 Rotterdam, Netherlands Conference website |
Debat over transities naar een duurzame samenleving
Hoe kunnen we onze samenleving zó veranderen dat we er op de lange termijn duurzamer kunnen leven? Wat is voor die omslag nodig en hoe kunnen we dat proces beïnvloeden? Deze vragen staan centraal in een nieuwe wetenschappelijke boekenserie van de Engelse uitgeverij Routledge waarvan het eerste deel op dinsdag 18 mei wordt gepresenteerd in het Trippenhuis, de thuisbasis van de KNAW (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) in Amsterdam.
De serie is een product van het Kennisnetwerk voor Systeeminnovaties en Transities (KSI), een zesjarig onderzoeksprogramma van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven dat in september afloopt. In totaal namen tachtig wetenschappers van twaalf Nederlandse universiteiten en onderzoeksinstituten aan het KSI-programma deel. In projecten op diverse maatschappelijke terreinen hielden zij zich bezig met transitiedenken in de praktijk. In theoretische studies gingen ze op zoek naar nieuwe inzichten over de transitiewetenschap.
De presentatie van deel 1 op 18 mei wordt omlijst met een aantal inleidingen en een debat over de kansen en onmogelijkheden om via transitiedenken richting duurzame samenleving te gaan.
| When? Where? More info? |
18 mei 2010, 19.30-22.00
Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam Bekijk het programma |
Managing Transitions to Sustainable Communities and Regions
Deadline: March 1, 2010
A workshop is being organized for early career scholars and professionals on all aspects of managing transitions to sustainable communities and regions-systems engineering, project management, simulation modeling, forecasting, computation and visualization, and political mobilization. Currently, in many parts of the world, planning expertise to mitigate and adapt to climate change and promote sustainable lifestyles is lacking at local and regional scales, where important decisions determining future climate pathways are being made. In addition, global integrated assessment models do not account for changes in infrastructure, which will be made at the regional level, or technologies exploiting new infrastructure in their estimates of future emissions and economic impacts. We plan a cross-disciplinary workshop to present and promote research that will facilitate transitions to interdependent systems that will support sustainable communities and regions. We will accept ~20 participants, and provide travel, and local support.
Please send a CV, letter of recommendation, statement of interest (CCSF-SummerInst@cornell.edu with the phrase "summer workshop" in the subject heading. More information is available at the Workshop website.
This workshop is sponsored by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future and AIMES Young Scholars.
| When? Where? More info? |
14-18 June 2010 Ithaca, NY Workshop website |
International workshop on System Innovations, Knowledge Regimes, and Design Practices towards Sustainable Agriculture
Deadline call for abstracts: 1 February 2010
The aim of the scientific meeting is to bring research insights and practical experiences together and discuss these in-depth to form a basis for effective strategies (policies as well as others) to stimulate transition towards sustainable agro-food systems.
The meeting will produce an overview of analytical methods, experiences and scientific insights of the main issues at stake in sustainability projects and programmes. By doing so, the meeting seeks to contribute to three goals, notably:
- Comparing and contrasting the issues of analysis and of governance of innovation and R&D practices in various European countries;
- Giving input to rethinking government policies, socio-professional strategies and civic concerns with the view to contribute to sustainable developments in the agro-food systems on the basis of existing research and experiences;
- Defining the content and the agenda of a possible consortium for further research. Such research would have an analytical component (to analyse the relevant processes) as well as a constructive component (to play a role (in co-operation with other stakeholders) in the development of sustainable alternatives).
| When? Where? More info? |
16-18 June 2010 Lelystad, The Netherlands Conference website |
Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation, ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Conference
It is now widely accepted that changes towards SCP are a long-term process and that, in many cases, they need to be radical. Such `transitions´ or `system innovations´ towards sustainability cannot be managed via traditional means-end approaches, but need to be looked at from a complex system or complex governance perspective. This also means innovation systems and related innovation policies have to become sustainable in a way that they facilitate both system innovations and sustainable innovations in general. This track invites original conceptual and methodological contributions, as well as case study research into this matter.
| When? Where? More info? |
25-29 October 2010 Delft, Netherlands http://www.erscp-emsu2010.org/ |
European Conference on Sustainability Transitions
The 2nd European Conference on Sustainability Transitions will bring together a rapidly growing community of researchers and practitioners interested in broad societal transitions towards sustainability. The common goal is to inform strategies for the governance of sustainability through a better understanding of the dynamics of transitions.
| When? Where? More info? |
June 2011 Lund, Sweden Later available on this website |