welcome to our final newsletter for 2014! What an exciting year with even more exciting events we have had in the GLAMURS project. After the beginning of the project at the end of January, followed by kick off-events of the individual case studies, we have recently hosted the GLAMURS stakeholder workshop “Co-producing knowledge for supporting transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe” in Brussels. Policy-makers, scientists, representatives of European institutions and the European Commission gathered to exchange ideas on sustainable lifestyles and green economies. The input and feedback gained during this event will help us to re-evaluate and improve the contents of GLAMURS and to prepare ourselves with vigour for the following year. Continue reading →
From a strongly interdisciplinary perspective, four European research consortia met on November 21st at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam to discuss the role of civil society in sustainability transitions. Representatives of the projects ARTS, TESS, GLAMURS and TRANSIT participated in a “pressure cooker”, an intensive one-day series of presentations, critical reflections and small-group discussions in which they reflected on the best ways to create synergies in European research, as well as on the best ways to understand and study sustainable initiatives and their role in Europe.
On November 19th, the first workshop on “Co-producing knowledge for supporting transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy in Europe” was held in Brussels. We worked for a full day in an interactive session with 40 policy-makers, academics, and representatives of European institutions. Our project officer, Dr. Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero, gave an inspiring presentation on the challenges of co-producing knowledge for sustainable transitions in Europe. We were also delighted to welcome representatives of four General Directorates of the European Commission at our event: Environment; Transport and Mobility; Research and Innovation; and Enterprise and Industries. A summary of conclusions of this workshop will follow soon. Continue reading →
two months have passed since the release of our first newsletter and we are delighted to watch both the project and our community grow. These days, we are in the midst of our preparations to host the first stakeholder workshop in Brussels. The discussion of our research focus on citizens’ everyday lives is one of the main topics on our agenda, since the seven case studies are at the very core of GLAMURS. Continue reading →
On October 15th, 2014 representatives of the Danube-Bohemian Forest LEADER office, Bioregion Mühlviertel, SERI and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research held a press conference in Sarleinsbach. Some main points of the conference were the involvement of the region in GLAMURS and the announcement as well as public invitation to the kick-off meeting “LebensKlima Donau-Böhmerwald” on November 11th, 2014. Continue reading →
