Category: Transition Hub

Transition Policy Labs. Enabling capacity building, experimentation and design for policy to the practitioners community

In 2021, The Transition Policy Lab series supported policymakers in different countries to introduce policy-making practises by removing barriers to enable the necessary institutional change. It aimed to build capacity for co-designing and implementing systemic policies that can lead to transformative strategies and actions.

The #EIT Regional Innovation Scheme’s Transition Policy Labs, developed by the Transitions Hub, consisted of five interconnected capacity-building activities delivered in three different formats: Multi-stakeholder setting, science-based training and executive programmes.

Transitions Policy Labs Series 2021

  1. Co-creation for policy Here                                                                                                          Knowledge Partner: Joint Research Centre
  2. X-Curve for exploring transition dynamics Here                                                                   Knowledge Partner: Drift for transitions 
  3. Value Network Mapping Here                                                                                                     Knowledge Partner: Vito
  4. MEL Addressing Transformative Change Here                                                                      Knowledge Partner: Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium & MOTION project
  5. Transformative Innovation Policy  Here                                                                   Knowledge Partner: Austrian Institute of Technology
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Innovation platforms enabling cross-regional collaboration in low-carbon economy

The interdependent challenges of climate change need innovation in systems of practice and provision, not single innovation in products and processes. In this context, cities face the challenge of dealing with climate risks and impacts while moving to more sustainable, zero-carbon and resilient pathways. This is a significant opportunity for a new, sustainable market to combine existing knowledge and economies of scale within urban environments to produce new systemic solutions. However, there are considerable differences in progress between the leading cities (mainly in Northern/Western Europe) and the ones lagging behind. Intra-EU disparity claims for the existence of platforms that follow a systemic approach instead of “picking the winner”. The structures that allow for coordinating various actors by combining individual goals and capacities with shared purposes, norms and expectations refer to innovation platforms.

This study addresses the role of innovation platforms as catalysers of existing (or new) innovation systems in sustainable urban transitions to explore market opportunities. Empirically, emphasis is put on analysing the underlying factors of geographical structural differences and the patterns of relations between knowledge spaces and governance configurations. To do so, we analyse the portfolio of projects and activities of the EIT Climate-KIC. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of innovation platforms as a mechanism to accelerate innovation in the urban environment that can enhance collaboration to achieve more equally distributed progress across all of Europe.

The results of this study are based on the activities implemented in the EIT RIS programme covering peripheral EU regions.

  • Journal publication HERE
  • Webinar format: Conference presentation UN/WASD International Conference on Public-private partnership for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10-13 April 2018, Geneva

Research project team: Cristian Matti, Irene Vivas Lalinde, Julia Panny and Balnca Juan Agulló

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Visual toolbox for system innovation

The  Visual toolbox for system innovation” is a booklet-format collection of ready-to-implement tools to structure and manage the challenges and exploit opportunities of sustainability innovations and transitions.

The tools are presented in a simple and visual approach to support practitioners’ everyday work on climate change, transition and system innovation.

De Vicente Lopez, Javier and Matti, Cristian (2016). Visual toolbox for system innovation. A resource book for practitioners to map, analyse and facilitate sustainability transitions. Transition Hub Series. EIT Climate KIC, Brussels 2016. ISBN 978-2-9601874-1-0

Download the Visual toolbox

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logo-evento-stepThe launch event “Opening the development agenda,” the STEPS center – Sustainable Alternatives for Latin America, was held on 5 and 6 November in Buenos Aires. STEPS Latin America is part of a network of universities based China, USA, Kenya, India, the UK and Sweden. STEPS Latin America seeks to renew and open innovation agenda and sustainability of the region, based on the idea that there are different paths to development. During the two-day panel on Open Science, Innovation inclusive, horizontal innovations for sustainability and natural resources and development which will have important guests were made internationally. My participation in this event was to design and facilitation of participatory workshops with the aim of thinking policies to promote open knowledge production and think a new research agenda on innovation and sustainable development for the region.

The workshop Policies to open the generation of knowledge was based in participatory techniques aimed to allow jointly identification of a number of items such as tools, methodologies and priorities related to S & T policy. Brainstorming techniques and World Cafe are used to enhance the diversity of perspectives and facilitate the exchange of ideas between different actors. The outcome of this workshop will be digitized and shared with participants to encourage collaboration in different areas.

The workshop Research agenda for sustainable development was based in participatory techniques for making maps on areas of knowledge and research priorities through a prospective approach. By visualizing a future scenario, the exercise seeks to help participants to relate different elements at different levels and over time in order to facilitate change processes at the system level. The outcome of this workshop will be digitized and shared with participants to encourage collaboration in different areas.

The event was part of the new line of collaboration between Transition Hub – Climate KIC and the STEPs center. Further actions are related with the co-development of learning materials and exploring research opportunities in the area of resilient and smart agricultural systems

See full agenda of the event here & summary of event in STEP website

 

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