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The Transformations to Sustainability Programme Heide Hackmann Tokyo, 29 January 2015

• Established in 1952
• A membership based organisation
• International disciplinary associations
• National academies and research councils
• Regional social science councils
• Universities and research institutes
• Primary international body representing the social, behavioural and economic

sciences

• Formal associate relations with UNESCO and UN ECOSOC

Our mission To increase the production and use of social science knowledge in all parts of the world in order to contribute to solving global priority problems

Our roles

• Scoping, agenda-setting
• Advocacy and promotion
• Capacity development
• Networking
• Information brokerage and dissemination
• Science policy development and resource mobilisation

Strengthening the social sciences to help solve global problems

Research Programmes and Networks World Social Science Fora World Social Science Fellows Programme World Social Science Reports

Strengthening the social sciences to help solve global problems

Research Programmes and Networks

World Social Science Fora World Social Science Fellows Programme World Social Science Reports

Converging towards a new partnership and single strategic framework

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2010 ICSU – ISSC Visioning 2009 2009

2012

Science & Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability

Global environmental change and sustainability research and the ISSC

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S&T Alliance for Global Sustainability

Future ture Earth th Objective ective

To build and connect global knowledge to intensify the impact of research and find new ways of accelerating sustainable development

Future ture Earth th research earch themes emes

Transformation towards Sustainability Dynamic Planet Global Development

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ISSC: Mobilising the social sciences

• 2011: Climate Change Design Project (invited by Sida)
• 2012: Transformative Cornerstones of Social Science

Research for Global Change

• 2013: World Social Science Report
• 2014: Launch of the Transformations to Sustainability

Programme as a contribution to Future Earth

The knowledge gap

Complex processes of profound social change that are multi-dimensional, involve multiple actors,

• ccur at different rates and scales, and can be

deliberate or unplanned

• What do we know about processes of change in particular

places where social and environmental problems converge?

• What changes at individual, organisational, cultural and

systemic levels are needed?

• How can these be realised in ways that are socially

acceptable and adequately anticipate future challenges?

• What novel visions for change exist, whose visions count,

how do powerful interests influence unfolding trajectories of change?

• What are possible levers of change and who are potential

change agents?

• What types of decision making processes are required to

foster deliberate and democratic processes of transformation?

• What is the role of science in such processes?

Vision

Society has access to a global knowledge trust on social transformation that informs effective and equitable solutions to the urgent problems of global change and sustainability

Main objectives

• Increase the social science (incl. behavioural

and economic science) contributions necessary to craft more effective, equitable and transformative solutions to the problems of global change and sustainability

• Increase the use of such knowledge by policy

makers, practitioners, the private sector, citizens and activists

Added value

• Mobilise a broader community of social scientists to

become involved in solutions-oriented research for global sustainability

• Help to fully integrate them into initiatives like Future Earth
• Make use of the best existing social science knowledge on

social change and transformation

• Support the development of new approaches to co-design

and co-produce knowledge on social transformation in specific contexts of application

• Provide a basis for building networks of mutual learning for

transformative change

• Provide leverage to relevant social science research

programmes at the national level

• Extend the global reach of other regional/international

initiatives, e.g. JPI Climate on Societal Transformation

• Infuse knowledge on social transformations into other

Future Earth and Belmont Forum projects

• Extend collaboration between different types of funders:

research councils, donor agencies, foundations, etc.

Programme design

A global knowledge trust on

• Social transformation
• Transformative science

Transformative knowledge networks

• Social transformation in

contexts of application, focusing on concrete challenges

• Solutions-oriented

research and mutual learning: co-designing, producing and disseminating knowledge

TKN Water TKN Urban TKN Climate TKN Health

TKN principles

• Co-designed social transformation

need/opportunity in concrete contexts of application

• Trans-national collaboration
• Supporting teams from at least three countries
• Including at least one low or middle-income country

• Integrated research
• Putting social science researchers (from academia, research

NGOs and other sectors) in the lead

• Encouraging inter-disciplinarity within and beyond the social

sciences

• Solutions-oriented research
• Emphasising the iterative co-design, co-production and co-

dissemination of knowledge in communities of practice (science working with society)

• Building mutual networks of learning

• Capacity building
• Involving low or middle income country researchers in the

co-leadership of TKNs

• Demonstrating direct benefits for early career researchers

(post-doctoral level)

• Reflexivity and learning
• Ongoing recording and analysis of TKN processes and
• utcomes

Work plan 2014-2015

Mar 2014: Call for seed funding Sept 2014: Seed grants selected Nov 2014: Transformative Knowledge Workshop I Dec 2014: Call for TKN proposals By July 2015: 3+ TKNs selected Sept 2015: Transformative Knowledge Workshop II

2014 Seed Funding

• Implemented and funded by ISSC (Sida)
• Purpose: Preparing for TKN proposals
• Building scientific and stakeholder networks
• Co-designing potential TKN proposals

Transformative Knowledge Workshop I Call for seed funding Seed grant selection Call for TKN proposals TKN selection Transformative Knowledge Workshop II

From 500+ applications to 38 seed grants (with supplementary support from ESRC/Newton Fund, NRF, SSEESS, NWO)

Seed grant themes

Seed grants

Female 63% Male 37%

Gender of grantees

Africa 11% Asia Pacific 18% Europe 45% Island States 3% Latin America 5% North America 18%

Region of grantees' institutions

Seed grants

Africa 23% Arab States 1% Asia Pacific 32% Europe 19% Island States 5% Latin America 11% North America 9%

Region of research sites and partners

Research and networking target countries

Transformative Knowledge Workshop, 17-19 November 2014, Potsdam

March 2014: Call for pre-proposals Sept 2014: Pre-proposal selection Nov 2014: Transformative Knowledge Workshop I Dec 2014: Call for TKN proposals July 2015: TKN selection

Provide a baseline for building a global knowledge trust on social transformations

First call for TKNs: Dec 2014

• TKN funding, implemented in

partnership with the Belmont Forum (NRF, South Africa and JST, Japan)

• Awards by mid-2015

Transformative Knowledge Workshop I Call for seed funding Seed grant selection Call for TKN proposals TKN selection Transformative Knowledge Workshop II

Durban, as part of the 2015 World Social Science Forum

Transformative Knowledge Workshop I Call for seed funding Seed grant selection Call for TKN proposals TKN selection Transformative Knowledge Workshop II

Building the programme

Outcomes of the October 2014 Belmont Forum meeting 2015 Donors’ conference and scoping workshop 2016 Call (ERANET) Foundations? Private Sector?

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