Changing hearts instead of changing minds – another take on climate action

This piece elaborates on a ‘new way of thinking’ (Einstein, 1946) that would contribute to overcoming the challenge of climate change and its impacts. This ‘new way’ will have us go beyond using facts and figures alone to persuade and cajole. It will have us stretching our moral imagination (Johnson, 2016) and empathising with people very...

Collective action lessons for the energy transition: learning from social movements of the past

To accelerate the energy transition and achieve the needed large-scale transformation to address climate change, different barriers including lock-ins and path dependencies, incumbent power structures and changing individual and collective norms, values, and behaviors around energy need to be addressed. In the face of these challenges, citizens...

Creating spaces and cultivating mindset for transdisciplinary learning and experimentation: Pathways beyond the International Transdisicplinarity Conference 2021

This Special Focus highlights the potential of transdisciplinary research and learning to confront the complexity of the challenges facing society today. By serving as a bridge between science, practice and society, transdisciplinarity can be a means to help foster collaboration between diverse actors, question existing paradigms of knowledge co...

Design thinking

Inclusive stakeholder engagement for equitable knowledge co-production: Insights from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme in climate change research

We develop and apply the concept of equitable knowledge co-production (EKC) by proposing a reflexive framework to support inclusive stakeholder engagement with diverse knowledge-holders. This framework is built on the authors’ experiences of leading three ongoing Horizon 2020 projects, and its goal is to contribute to the realisation of...

ENCLUDE – Summary of Collective Actions: WP6 – ENCLUDE Academy for Energy Citizen Leadership

In line with EU’s 2050 decarbonization agenda, the H2020 Energy Citizens for Inclusive Decarbon-ization (ENCLUDE) project aims to help the EU fulfil its promise of a just and inclusive decarboni-zation, adopting the principles of sharing and co-creating new knowledge and practices that are aimed at maximizing the number as well as the diversity...

Designing interventions for sustainable change in a real-world laboratory

Real-world laboratories (RWL) aim to support transformations for sustainable urban development by producing outputs with practical and scientific relevance. To achieve these aims, the local community of which the RWL is a part should be in close collaboration from the start of a project. RWLs offer spaces for ‘thinking outside the box’ and for...

Collective action lessons for the energy transition: Learning from social movements of the past

Energy citizenship for inclusive decarbonization: A transdisciplinary framework for creating transformation knowledge

Achieving the European Union’s vision of climate neutrality by 2050 dictates the need to transform the role that citizens can play in decarbonizing the energy system. Yet, “which citizens to involve in this process,” “when to involve them,” and “how to do so fairly and effectively,” are questions that still remain unclear to both experts and...

ENCLUDE Academy – Action-based Online Modules: WP6 – ENCLUDE Academy for Energy Citizen Leadership

Co-designing an interactive data platform for contextualizing the role of citizens on energy and low-carbon transitions

Citizens are expected to play a significant role to the current energy transition in Europe, such as through prosumerism and collective initiatives for energy efficiency. While there are many platforms for domestic energy analytics and for engaging citizens and transition stakeholders on energy topics, context-specific information is frequently...

Going beyond the AHA! Moment: Insight discovery for transdisciplinary research and learning

In this paper, we develop and apply the concept of ‘insight discovery’ as a key competence for transdisciplinary research and learning. To address complex societal and environmental problems facing the world today, a particular expertise that can identify new connections between diverse knowledge fields is needed in order to integrate diverse...

Forks in the road: Critical design moments for identifying key processes in stakeholder interaction

While the importance of transdisciplinary (Td) processes as a means to address societal problems is well-established, guidance for the intentional design of stakeholder interactions to meet specific goals, under different conditions and contexts, remains less explored. We propose the concept of critical design moments (CDMs) as a lens through...

So schaffen wir eine echte Brücke zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft

Wissen allein reicht nicht für eine wirkungsvolle Politik. Vielmehr braucht es Vertrauen, Partizipation und Transdisziplinarität, damit Wissenschaft relevant bleibt und Erkenntnisse in die Praxis umgesetzt werden. Dafür muss sich die Forschungswelt verändern.

On the structural design of imperfection sensitive laminated composite shell structures subjected to axial compression

Shell structures are used as primary structures of space launch vehicles. These structures are thin-walled and are thus prone to buckling when loaded in compression. Because of the imperfection sensitivity of these structures, small deviations of the real shell from the theoretically perfect shell may result in a tremendous decrease in load...