COEXIST · Co-creating change: experimenting with values for sustainability transformation
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-08-17 → 2022-08-16
- EU contribution
- €141,779
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Co-creating change: experimenting with values for sustainability transformation
COEXIST addressed the issue of how to engage with values as leverage points for sustainability transformation using knowledge co-production as both an interventional experimental setting, but also as a way to produce scientifically appropriate and socially relevant knowledge for sustainability transformations. COEXIST is part of a growing discourse revolving around how sustainability science can contribute towards the goal of transformative change in response to complex global problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. The overall objectives were to: i) identify, review and synthetize theories and bodies of knowledge that can support developing an experimental approach involving value-based interventions; ii) identify knowledge (co-)production practices that can support an experimental approach involving value-based interventions; iii) develop an integrated model of an experimental approach involving value-based interventions.
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Project objective
There has been a growing discourse revolving around how sustainability science can reach the goal of transformational change in response to complex global problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. As one solution it has been suggested that sustainability science needs to bridge barriers to action by going beyond the co-production of knowledge to experimentation and testing of knowledge. At the same time, it has been argued that in order to achieve genuine transformational change it is necessary to shift values rather than simply generate ‘better’ actionable knowledge. COEXIST aims to join these two streams and to develop experimental settings that include values-based interventions to produce scientifically appropriate and socially relevant knowledge for sustainability transformations. Thus, COEXIST will be the first to integrate experimental interventions with the transformative power of values. I will identify theoretical frameworks that will inform a value-based experimental design and I will collect empirical evidence about key enabling factors and interventional practices that can operationalise such an experimental approach. By combining theory and practice, I will develop an integrated model of transformational experiments involving value-based interventions. I will implement the model within the real-world context of Transylvania, Romania, a region with a rich but threatened cultural and natural heritage. COEXIST combines my experience in transformational and transdisciplinary research modes and the host’s unique knowledge of place-based social-ecological systems research with the commitment of regional multi-sectoral stakeholders. This setup provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the integrated model, which is expected to generate impact, and acts as a forum for communicating results to non-academic actors in Romania and Europe.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI · Cluj-NapocaCoordinatorRomania
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