Very excited: in about 3 hrs we are opening our online conference "Critical perspectives on energy transitions in the global south". Tune in: tiny.cc/MIASA

Reminder! Applications are now open for the next UrbanA Arena Event - Governance Arrangements for Sustainable Just Cities - & the deadline to apply is extended to 24th January. Join us online Arena 18th-19th March 2021. urban-arena.eu/berlin-arena/

Thanks SONNET Energy Transitions! Delighted to be joining you for your discussion on collaborative governance for social innovation in energy

One week left to apply! #Sustainability #Mobility

Help #Gelsenkirchen please. Call out to groups working on #UrbanTransition & #SustainabilityTransitions, especially those with German connections: STRN transitions NEST @JochenMarkard SCORAI Philipp Späth Fridays for Future Berlin Stiftung Mercator Urban Thinkers Mannheim #Donut4Berlin #SDG11

Can the experience of inspiring urban sustainability & justice initiatives be effectively shared with others, in other #cities? UrbanA's governance scenarios aim to facilitate exactly such translocal knowledge-sharing. Find out more in our latest blog bit.ly/3q75I39

New Podcast Alert! urban-arena.eu/resources/#pod… Sophia Silverton from Universität Freiburg chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri @[email protected] from Changing Cities e.V. about the role of participatory actions in just distributions of urban space Stay to the end for a special audiogram from 🇵🇸 Duncan Crowley 🐝 🌎 🐌 🍉 🦋

“while we’re chasing something flashy, the problems become more entrenched and it becomes harder to deal with them” theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…

Feeling regenerated after the 3rd #UrbanA arena_urban event on #SustainableJustCities. Sharing ideas & experiences on how to make cities more sustainable and just with 60+ city-makers & thinkers from across Europe urban-arena.eu

Governance for sustainable and just cities? For insights from our recent “Berlin” Arena, see this blog: medium.com/urban-arenas-f…

What do you think?! After 2 years of research, Arenas & online conversation, we have come up with 17 keys for #SustainableJustCities, clustered under 4 words - honest, caring, robust, informed. Now we'd like your input. Please share your wisdom via form.jotform.com/210823994235055

From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening in the #CitiesforChange summit. Wednesday 26th from 14-16h CEST Register here: tinyurl.com/3pypxpup

2-year memberships in the “Young Academy for Sustainability Research”, Freiburg, Germany. All post-docs, especially those interested in Renewable Energy and Democracy, please apply before July 11! frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/aktuelles/w…

New paper out with ReSET on just energy transitions! Interested in understanding how energy transitions and social equity can be aligned in practice? In this article in ER&SS we provide a framework that we call the ‘triple-re cycle’../1 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Out of steam and ideas? Jogging at dawn does wonders 😊

Finally out: New Umweltbundesamt report on transforming food systems. Happy to have contributed insights on the political feasibility of food system change (section 2, p.52). Thanks to @nicolas_schmid_ Adrian Rinscheid NAHhaft ابو فيصل Philipp Späth & more for the collaboration

One of our #CommunityofPractice team leaders, Lucia di Paola from our consortium partner ICLEI Europe, is the 2nd facilitator at this #PowerLiteracy for #JustSustainableTransitions event in 2 days. She helps local governments integrate social justice into urban sustainability.

To recognise the knowledge politics involved in #SmartUrbanism is an important thing; but who, what, when, where and how should deliberations negotiate that politics? Insights from our case studies in 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧in this OA article in @UT_journal: urbantransformations.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1… SPRU

After a full week together in Utrecht, re-establishing a shared language & comparing energy transitions in our 4 countries, the ReSET team is excited to launch our website! Visit energyforsocialequity.org to learn more about what this dynamic group of researchers have been up to!

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