Advancing transformations to more sustainable and equitable futures. Read more.
Supporting innovative, social-science-led research on transformations to sustainability.
Creating an open collection of outputs and other resources on social transformations.
Promoting research collaboration and skill building around the world.
We aim to create a ‘Transformations Knowledge Base’ around social transformation that can inform the development of solutions to sustainability challenges for the long term.
The Transformations community brings together a growing network of researchers and practitioners who work towards social transformations in sustainability contexts.
Programme outputs include workshop documentation, webinars and written syntheses of knowledge.
The programme funded 38 seed projects and three Transformative Knowledge Networks. Read more.
This post originally appeared on the T-learning website. In her keynote address to the Transformations 2017 conference, Susi Moser, Senior Adviser to the Transformations to Sustainability programme, identified the purpose of global transformations networks as ‘life for people and for the planet’. When eight short-listed learning networks from across the globe met the International Social […]
By Florian Koch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; Sonia Roitman, The University of Queensland, Australia; and Martin David, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany. Recently adopted global political sustainability agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) consider cities as ‘powerful actors’ with a role […]
From prehistoric charts of the stars etched into cave walls to the fine-grained, multi-dimensional projections of the 21st century, maps have been tracing, reflecting and influencing the development of human society for thousands of years. As expressions and representations of our environment, maps have long been invaluable in providing direction and guiding human decisions. Today […]