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Successful Kick-Off NORFACE and Belmont Forum Transformations to Sustainability programme in Fukuoka, Japan

12/10 2018

The Kick-off of the NORFACE and Belmont Forum research programme Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) took place in Fukuoka, Japan on 22-26 September 2018. The Kick-off consisted of a three-day workshop for the twelve funded T2S projects and a T2S launch session at the World Social Science Forum, alongside which the Kick-off was organized. The T2S Kick-off provided a successful platform for discussions, reflection and mutual learning among the representatives from the funded projects and with a wider audience.

The T2S Kick-off was attended by 22 representatives from the twelve NORFACE-Belmont Forum funded T2S projects. The event started with a combined workshop for the twelve projects and the three Transformative Knowledge Networks funded by the original Transformations to Sustainability programme (2014-2019) of the International Social Science Council. The workshop provided a meeting ground for the two cohorts of projects, fledgling and mature, to explore what could be learned from each other about doing transdisciplinary research on transformations to sustainability and how social science can effectively contribute to equitable transformations to sustainability. The workshop included poster and storytelling sessions, discussions on impact and mutual learning, and a field trip to the Rainwater Society initiative, which aims to promote decentralized water management subsystems, in part by encouraging different generations of people to work together to harvest rainwater and develop green spaces.

The workshop was followed by a well-attended T2S launch session at the World Social Science Forum, where the NORFACE-Belmont Forum T2S programme was presented. The context, opportunities and challenges for the social sciences in leading research on transformations to sustainability were addressed, after which the twelve funded T2S projects presented themselves to the participants of the session. The audience was able to ask questions to and exchange views with the panel of project representatives. The synthesis of the various projects at the end of the meeting provided a positive final conclusion: keep “discovery” alive – we can discover a lot about the world through these projects.

L-R: Elisabeth Eppinger (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin), Silke Beck (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig), Simon Codjoe (University of Ghana), Emily Boyd (Lund University).
Twelve transnational projects receive 11.5 million euros for research on transformations to sustainability
  • T2S Coordination Office

    Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
    Email: T2S@nwo.nl
    Postal address: PO Box 93461
    NL-2509 AL The Hague
    The Netherlands

  • Visiting address

    Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 300
    NL-2593 CE  The Hague
    The Netherlands

  • Grant Agreement

    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730211.
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    • www.belmontforum.org
    • www.norface.net