A pioneering research programme

The Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) programme was launched by the International Social Science Council in 2014 to empower social scientists to take the lead in North–South, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research addressing the challenges of global environmental change and sustainability.

The programme has had two phases:

• The first, showcased in this website – was financed almost entirely by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and involved the funding of 38 seed grants in 2014-2015 and three major international research projects, or ‘Transformative Knowledge Networks’, from 2016 to 2019.
• In the second phase, the ISC, again with the support of Sida, joined forces with the Belmont Forum and NORFACE to jointly fund 12 international research projects which run from 2018 to 2022. The second phase of the programme has a dedicated website: www.t2sresearch.org.

The goal of the T2S programme is to accelerate the emergence of a significant body of knowledge on social transformations that can inform the development of solutions to urgent sustainability challenges.

The Transformations to Sustainability Programme is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, was an implementing partner in the call for proposals for Transformative Knowledge Networks.

Explore key programme outputs and resources.