COST Action ? TransformERS

?? [TransformERS event] Training School on Sustainability Transformations and?Epistemic Injustice, 22-24/06/2024, Leeds, UK https://lnkd.in/du8YQegu Dear All, I would like to draw your attention to the TransformERS summer school and the opportunities to apply to attend (or recommend to your friends and colleagues). Our first Training School will be held on 22-24th June 2025, and will be based in Leeds, UK. Addressing Epistemic Injustice in Sustainability Transformations, the Training School will interweave inputs, dialogues and creative sessions with leading academics to consider: Whose knowledge counts when thinking about and pursuing sustainability transformations? Where do our theories about transitions, transformations, and transformative change come from? What perspectives about transformation and sustainability do we privilege or include and what perspectives do we marginalise or exclude? But also: What can we do to have marginalised perspectives and voices enter the conversation about sustainability and transformation? What transformation do our research practices and spaces need to go through to create transformative change? What about ourselves as academics and as researchers? We have set a first deadline of 30th November to allow those who need visas to have confirmation in plenty of time. Please consider applying! Best wishes Julia Leventon, TransformERS Chair

?? Explore the #PLANET4B project, aimed at fostering #biodiversity in decision-making. We're collaborating with various partners, from research institutes to universities and NGOs. ?? Learn more at ?? www.planet4b.eu #PLANET4B #BetterDecisions #BehaviourChange

?? TransformERS Communication & Dissemination Grants ?? 2nd Call for Communication & Dissemination Grants DCG — 14.03.2025 The sharing of scientific results is vitally important in strengthening science and research. Due to the value and impact communication and dissemination activities can have on the wider research community, COST actively encourages and supports Actions to share outcomes with researchers, policymakers, the private sector and civic society such as NGOs. This is the 2nd Call for applications for Communication and Dissemination Grants DCG funded by the COST Action CA22156 ? Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures ? TransformERS. These calls for applications aim at: Supporting grantees to participate in high-level conferences, not organized by the Action, and increase the visibility and awareness of TransformERS. DC Grants offer reimbursement for travel, accommodation, and subsistence expenses, registration fees, the printing of scientific posters, and overall effort. The maximum grant amount is 1.000€ per grantee for face-to face conferences. ? Information on the attached PDF file: "2nd Call for Communication & Dissemination Grants DCG — 14.03.2025.pdf"

?? TransformERS Conference Grants ?? 2nd Call for Conference Grants ITC — 14.03.2025 There are two types of conference grants offered by COST Actions, one specifically for Young Researchers and Innovators, under 40 years of age, and another for researchers located in Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs). The purpose of the grant is to help individuals attend beneficial international conferences that are not organised by the COST Action. This is the 2nd Call for applications for Conference Grants (ITC) funded by the COST Action CA22156 ? Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures ? TransformERS. These calls for applications aim at: Supporting grantees to participate in high-level conferences, not organized by the Action, and increase the visibility and awareness of TransformERS. DC Grants offer reimbursement for travel, accommodation, and subsistence expenses, registration fees, the printing of scientific posters, and overall effort. The maximum grant amount is 1.000€ per grantee for face-to face conferences. ? Information on the attached PDF file: "2nd Call for Conference Grants ITC — 14.03.2025.pdf"

?? TransformERS Virtual Mobility Grants ?? 3rd Call for Virtual Mobility VM — 14.03.2025 To respond to the rising need of digital tools and online collaboration, COST Actions also offer Virtual Mobility (VM) Grants. This consists of collaboration in a virtual setting among researchers and/or innovators within a COST Action network to exchange knowledge, learn new techniques, and so on. This is the 3rd Call for Virtual Mobility VM funded by the COST Action CA22156 ? Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures ? TransformERS. VMs allow scientists to collaborate in a virtual setting among researchers or innovators within the COST Action, to exchange knowledge, learn new techniques, etc. TransformERS is organized into 5 Working Groups WGs. VMs are considered a great opportunity for participants to focus their work on research topics that have been highlighted by WGs or introduce new ideas addressing the TransformERS objectives. ? Information on the attached PDF file: "3rd Call for Virtual Mobility VM — 14.03.2025.pdf"

?? TransformERS Short-Term Scientific Missions — STSMs ?? 3rd Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions STSMs — 14.03.2025 Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are exchange visits for researchers within their COST Action. STSMs are great opportunities for researchers to share techniques and gain skills that may not be available at their home institution or laboratory. This is the 3rd Call for applications for Short-Term Scientific Missions STSMs funded by the COST Action CA22156 ? Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures ? TransformERS. STSMs allow scientists to conduct scientific missions, i.e. short research and study visits to a research institution or laboratory in another COST country to strengthen the existing networks and foster collaboration, learn a new technique, or use equipment, data, and/or methods not available in their own institution and contribute to the scientific objectives of the action. ? Information on the attached PDF file: "3rd Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions STSMs — 14.03.2025.pdf"

???????????????????????????? ???????????? is not a clean process. Climate change, biodiversity, consumption and production are ?????????????? ?????????????????? with one another. As such, the most effective solutions cannot be found in isolation. Instead, the solutions are often just as interconnected and complex as the challenges themselves. Over the past two days, leading experts in biodiversity, ecology, climate change, marine science, sustainable supply chains and communication gathered at the adelphi headquarters in Berlin for the EU BIOTRAILS General Assembly (a 100% EU-funded project!). Two days of intense and highly productive discussions, deliberations and collaboration focused on pathways to accelerate change across the ????????????????????????-??????????????-?????????????? nexus. Living proof of the power of cross-institutional research. Want to stay in the loop? Simply hit the follow button on this page: → EU BIOTRAILS #BIOTRAILS #TransformativeChange #ClimateBiodiversityNexus

Spotlight on the latest COST Action outputs accepted to Open Research Europe by Multi3Generation COST Action: "Paraphrase and translation: the importance of being close". Discover the full Open Access article that explores the concept of paraphrasing within computational linguistics, seeking to enrich its understanding by drawing parallels with translation studies and especially machine translation: https://bit.ly/4ifw6nh Authors: Diana Santos & Anabela Barreiro #COSTactions #OpenAccess #language

Out now! "Institutional prefiguration: community energy development through spaces of orchestration": https://lnkd.in/gv8QSTQm Harry Lewis Lawford's first publication, which I'm very pleased to have co-authored as our final output from the Sun4All Project. "As a response to calls for decentralised energy infrastructure and inclusive decision-making processes in energy transitions, renewable energy communities (RECs) have emerged as innovative instruments to combat energy poverty and promote low-carbon energy. During 2021–2024, the Eurosolar4All project developed four solar photovoltaic (PV) RECs in four local contexts in Rome (Italy), Almada (Portugal), Coeur de Savoie (France), and Barcelona (Spain). Funded through the Horizon 2020 framework programme, the project aimed to produce diverse replicable models to alleviate energy poverty in vulnerable households. This paper examines the Eurosolar4All project and its pilots through the lens of prefigurative politics focused on local institutions. We draw on two questionnaires implemented across the four pilots, 18 semi-structured interviews with prospective beneficiaries, eight expert interviews with practitioners and participant observation during project meetings and site visits. The empirical analysis shows how the pilots worked to identify and empower vulnerable households while facing challenges related to path dependence and institutional inertia. These challenges relate to the project leaders’ (1) intramunicipal, (2) intermunicipal, and (3) trans-local work towards the enablement of pro-poor solar RECs. We show how the prefigurative politics of implementing the Eurosolar4All scheme surface in diverse ways in and across the cases and a related community of practice with ten follower municipalities and theorise the different levels as spaces of orchestration for prefigurative politics. We discuss how orchestration can counter an incumbent preference for centralised large-scale energy infrastructure, deeply embedded in modern energy systems (path dependence), to realise the potential social benefits of energy communities. In closing, we reflect upon how this enhances our understanding of the systemic limits to rapid upscaling of energy communities."

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