Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)
@transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
We are the leading international network for scholars and practitioners dedicated to advancing sustainability transitions research.
Follow our page to stay updated on the latest research, events, and insights!
https://transitionsnetwork.org/
Follow our page to stay updated on the latest research, events, and insights!
https://transitionsnetwork.org/
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We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time.
Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️
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That’s a wrap on #IST26! Nearly 650 scholars and practitioners came together in Zurich for three days of debate, exchange and new connections around sustainability transitions, hope, justice, impact, scaling and more. Thank you to everyone who made it happen!
September 7, 2026 at 8:23 AM
That’s a wrap on #IST26! Nearly 650 scholars and practitioners came together in Zurich for three days of debate, exchange and new connections around sustainability transitions, hope, justice, impact, scaling and more. Thank you to everyone who made it happen!
⚖️ Continuing our #IST2026 series, we turn to the first of four semi-plenaries exploring emerging questions in sustainability transitions research:
Interrogating justice in ‘just transitions’
Interrogating justice in ‘just transitions’
August 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
⚖️ Continuing our #IST2026 series, we turn to the first of four semi-plenaries exploring emerging questions in sustainability transitions research:
Interrogating justice in ‘just transitions’
Interrogating justice in ‘just transitions’
🌍 Continuing our #IST2026 plenary series, the second plenary turns to a central question for transitions research: how can research productively engage with societal actors to generate real-world impact?
IST-26 Plenary: Impact
IST-26 Plenary: Impact
August 10, 2026 at 8:09 AM
🌍 Continuing our #IST2026 plenary series, the second plenary turns to a central question for transitions research: how can research productively engage with societal actors to generate real-world impact?
IST-26 Plenary: Impact
IST-26 Plenary: Impact
🌱 As we count down the weeks to #IST2026, we’re introducing the plenary and semi-plenary sessions bringing together scholars and practitioners around key questions for sustainability transitions.
First up: Plausible reasons for hope in the Net-Zero transition
First up: Plausible reasons for hope in the Net-Zero transition
August 8, 2026 at 8:09 AM
🌱 As we count down the weeks to #IST2026, we’re introducing the plenary and semi-plenary sessions bringing together scholars and practitioners around key questions for sustainability transitions.
First up: Plausible reasons for hope in the Net-Zero transition
First up: Plausible reasons for hope in the Net-Zero transition
🚀 Designing transformative innovation policies is only half the job.
A review of 65 empirical studies shows that implementation succeeds when governments invest in governance capacity, coordination, learning, and meaningful stakeholder participation!
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...
A review of 65 empirical studies shows that implementation succeeds when governments invest in governance capacity, coordination, learning, and meaningful stakeholder participation!
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...
July 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM
🚀 Designing transformative innovation policies is only half the job.
A review of 65 empirical studies shows that implementation succeeds when governments invest in governance capacity, coordination, learning, and meaningful stakeholder participation!
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...
A review of 65 empirical studies shows that implementation succeeds when governments invest in governance capacity, coordination, learning, and meaningful stakeholder participation!
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...
📣 Registration for #IST26 is now open to all!
More than 500 participants have already registered, so secure your place soon. Early-bird rates are available until 26 June (23:59 CEST).
More information 👉https://www.transitionsnetwork.org/registration-ist-26/
See you in Zurich! 🇨🇭
More than 500 participants have already registered, so secure your place soon. Early-bird rates are available until 26 June (23:59 CEST).
More information 👉https://www.transitionsnetwork.org/registration-ist-26/
See you in Zurich! 🇨🇭
June 23, 2026 at 10:53 AM
📣 Registration for #IST26 is now open to all!
More than 500 participants have already registered, so secure your place soon. Early-bird rates are available until 26 June (23:59 CEST).
More information 👉https://www.transitionsnetwork.org/registration-ist-26/
See you in Zurich! 🇨🇭
More than 500 participants have already registered, so secure your place soon. Early-bird rates are available until 26 June (23:59 CEST).
More information 👉https://www.transitionsnetwork.org/registration-ist-26/
See you in Zurich! 🇨🇭
⏳Final call for input: The STRN survey on science–policy engagement and impact closes Friday (27 March).
If you have not yet had the chance to respond, we would greatly value your contribution. The survey takes less than 15 minutes.
👉 nettskjema.no/a/591535
If you have not yet had the chance to respond, we would greatly value your contribution. The survey takes less than 15 minutes.
👉 nettskjema.no/a/591535
March 23, 2026 at 11:06 AM
⏳Final call for input: The STRN survey on science–policy engagement and impact closes Friday (27 March).
If you have not yet had the chance to respond, we would greatly value your contribution. The survey takes less than 15 minutes.
👉 nettskjema.no/a/591535
If you have not yet had the chance to respond, we would greatly value your contribution. The survey takes less than 15 minutes.
👉 nettskjema.no/a/591535
📣 Call for Abstracts now open | #IST2026 (31 Aug–2 Sept 2026, Zurich)
For more details about submission requirements, tracks, and sessions, please visit www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-abs...!
For more details about submission requirements, tracks, and sessions, please visit www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-abs...!
January 30, 2026 at 1:07 PM
📣 Call for Abstracts now open | #IST2026 (31 Aug–2 Sept 2026, Zurich)
For more details about submission requirements, tracks, and sessions, please visit www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-abs...!
For more details about submission requirements, tracks, and sessions, please visit www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-abs...!
🇨🇦 We’re excited to welcome Carleton University as STRN’s first North American institutional member, an important milestone that reflects the growing global reach of our network!
Read the full announcement 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/carleton-uni...
Read the full announcement 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/carleton-uni...
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🇨🇦 We’re excited to welcome Carleton University as STRN’s first North American institutional member, an important milestone that reflects the growing global reach of our network!
Read the full announcement 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/carleton-uni...
Read the full announcement 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/carleton-uni...
Today is the final day to submit your application for the STRN PhD School 2026 at Linköping University, Sweden (March 16–20, 2026)!
👉 Apply here: lnkd.in/gifUmQY2
👉 Apply here: lnkd.in/gifUmQY2
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Today is the final day to submit your application for the STRN PhD School 2026 at Linköping University, Sweden (March 16–20, 2026)!
👉 Apply here: lnkd.in/gifUmQY2
👉 Apply here: lnkd.in/gifUmQY2
Propose a session track or special session for #IST26 in Zürich (31 Aug–2 Sep 2026)!
Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”
🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...
Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”
🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Propose a session track or special session for #IST26 in Zürich (31 Aug–2 Sep 2026)!
Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”
🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...
Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”
🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...
📢 Applications open!
STRN PhD School 2026 hosted by Thomas Magnusson, Harald Rohracher, Wisdom Kanda and colleagues.
📍 Linköping University, Sweden
📅 March 16–20, 2026
Apply by Oct 14, 2025 via this form 👉https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_1GqKjUyK7ZnmLwG
STRN PhD School 2026 hosted by Thomas Magnusson, Harald Rohracher, Wisdom Kanda and colleagues.
📍 Linköping University, Sweden
📅 March 16–20, 2026
Apply by Oct 14, 2025 via this form 👉https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_1GqKjUyK7ZnmLwG
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📢 Applications open!
STRN PhD School 2026 hosted by Thomas Magnusson, Harald Rohracher, Wisdom Kanda and colleagues.
📍 Linköping University, Sweden
📅 March 16–20, 2026
Apply by Oct 14, 2025 via this form 👉https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_1GqKjUyK7ZnmLwG
STRN PhD School 2026 hosted by Thomas Magnusson, Harald Rohracher, Wisdom Kanda and colleagues.
📍 Linköping University, Sweden
📅 March 16–20, 2026
Apply by Oct 14, 2025 via this form 👉https://survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_1GqKjUyK7ZnmLwG
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First day of Summer School 2025 “Justice in an interlinked world: revisiting rural-urban and South-North relationships in sustainability transformations” offered valuable moments of exchange and reflection. #justiceinterlinked2025
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
First day of Summer School 2025 “Justice in an interlinked world: revisiting rural-urban and South-North relationships in sustainability transformations” offered valuable moments of exchange and reflection. #justiceinterlinked2025
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
⏰ Last day to apply!
Join the STRN Methods School in Vienna (17–20 Nov) with Jonathan Köhler, Flor Alkemade, Klaus Kubeczko, Julia Wittmayer and many more modelling experts from the Austrian Institute of Technology
👉 More info and application form here: www.transitionsnetwork.org/events/metho...
Join the STRN Methods School in Vienna (17–20 Nov) with Jonathan Köhler, Flor Alkemade, Klaus Kubeczko, Julia Wittmayer and many more modelling experts from the Austrian Institute of Technology
👉 More info and application form here: www.transitionsnetwork.org/events/metho...
September 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
⏰ Last day to apply!
Join the STRN Methods School in Vienna (17–20 Nov) with Jonathan Köhler, Flor Alkemade, Klaus Kubeczko, Julia Wittmayer and many more modelling experts from the Austrian Institute of Technology
👉 More info and application form here: www.transitionsnetwork.org/events/metho...
Join the STRN Methods School in Vienna (17–20 Nov) with Jonathan Köhler, Flor Alkemade, Klaus Kubeczko, Julia Wittmayer and many more modelling experts from the Austrian Institute of Technology
👉 More info and application form here: www.transitionsnetwork.org/events/metho...
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Yesterday I delivered my first desk decision report to the Associate Editors of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. It is a great honour to take over the role as Editor-in-Chief from Bernhard Truffer who has done a tremendous job in developing the journal.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
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August 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Yesterday I delivered my first desk decision report to the Associate Editors of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. It is a great honour to take over the role as Editor-in-Chief from Bernhard Truffer who has done a tremendous job in developing the journal.
Time to catch up with the latest sustainability transition community updates 🏃♀️💨
The 56th STRN Newsletter is out now!
You can find it right here 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/wp-content/u...
Happy summer reading!
The 56th STRN Newsletter is out now!
You can find it right here 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/wp-content/u...
Happy summer reading!
www.transitionsnetwork.org
July 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Time to catch up with the latest sustainability transition community updates 🏃♀️💨
The 56th STRN Newsletter is out now!
You can find it right here 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/wp-content/u...
Happy summer reading!
The 56th STRN Newsletter is out now!
You can find it right here 👉 www.transitionsnetwork.org/wp-content/u...
Happy summer reading!
How can feminist utopias reimagine sustainability transitions?
At #NEST25, a workshop explored care, equity & interconnection in green transitions.
Read the full blog by Giulia Mininni, Carla Douglas González & Rachael Durrant here transitionsnetwork.org/feminist-uto...
At #NEST25, a workshop explored care, equity & interconnection in green transitions.
Read the full blog by Giulia Mininni, Carla Douglas González & Rachael Durrant here transitionsnetwork.org/feminist-uto...
Feminist utopias of sustainability transitions | Sustainability Transitions Research Network
The 10th NEST Conference brought together over a hundred early career researchers for two days of vibrant exchange, critical reflection, and community building. The event featured strong participation...
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July 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
How can feminist utopias reimagine sustainability transitions?
At #NEST25, a workshop explored care, equity & interconnection in green transitions.
Read the full blog by Giulia Mininni, Carla Douglas González & Rachael Durrant here transitionsnetwork.org/feminist-uto...
At #NEST25, a workshop explored care, equity & interconnection in green transitions.
Read the full blog by Giulia Mininni, Carla Douglas González & Rachael Durrant here transitionsnetwork.org/feminist-uto...
Sustainability talks and visa walls – reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard:
In a new blog, Kanika Balani and Carla Douglas González reflect on what it means to centre equity and justice not only in theory, but in practice.
Full text: www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/su...
In a new blog, Kanika Balani and Carla Douglas González reflect on what it means to centre equity and justice not only in theory, but in practice.
Full text: www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/su...
July 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Sustainability talks and visa walls – reflections from the NEST conference 2025 on whose voices are heard:
In a new blog, Kanika Balani and Carla Douglas González reflect on what it means to centre equity and justice not only in theory, but in practice.
Full text: www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/su...
In a new blog, Kanika Balani and Carla Douglas González reflect on what it means to centre equity and justice not only in theory, but in practice.
Full text: www.edrc.ac.uk/news-blog/su...
📡 Tomorrow’s #IST25 plenary will be livestreamed on YouTube!
🗓 26 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:30 (GMT+1)
🎙 “Transition Policy and the Role of Transition Research”
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/@dinamiacetiul
🗓 26 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:30 (GMT+1)
🎙 “Transition Policy and the Role of Transition Research”
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/@dinamiacetiul
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📡 Tomorrow’s #IST25 plenary will be livestreamed on YouTube!
🗓 26 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:30 (GMT+1)
🎙 “Transition Policy and the Role of Transition Research”
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/@dinamiacetiul
🗓 26 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:30 (GMT+1)
🎙 “Transition Policy and the Role of Transition Research”
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/@dinamiacetiul
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The #IST25 is on!
With over 500 participants from all around the world.
Nuno Bento from ISCTE officially kicks off the conference, after Florian Kern announces that @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social is finally on BlueSky!
With over 500 participants from all around the world.
Nuno Bento from ISCTE officially kicks off the conference, after Florian Kern announces that @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social is finally on BlueSky!
June 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The #IST25 is on!
With over 500 participants from all around the world.
Nuno Bento from ISCTE officially kicks off the conference, after Florian Kern announces that @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social is finally on BlueSky!
With over 500 participants from all around the world.
Nuno Bento from ISCTE officially kicks off the conference, after Florian Kern announces that @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social is finally on BlueSky!
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IST’25 is on: Florian Kern, chair of @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social, introducing what STRN does & how far we have come since 2009. This time, I am co-organising track 6 on actors in accelerating transitions: 7 sessions today & tomorrow - looking forward to the discussions in ED4_A306_Aud & beyond.
June 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
IST’25 is on: Florian Kern, chair of @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social, introducing what STRN does & how far we have come since 2009. This time, I am co-organising track 6 on actors in accelerating transitions: 7 sessions today & tomorrow - looking forward to the discussions in ED4_A306_Aud & beyond.
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This morning I presented at #IST25 in Lisbon! I presented work from the Horizon2020 project #ROBINSON on how technologies face varying social acceptance in Norway. Energy technologies may face opposition due to local paradoxes, but even ambivalence can be problematic @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This morning I presented at #IST25 in Lisbon! I presented work from the Horizon2020 project #ROBINSON on how technologies face varying social acceptance in Norway. Energy technologies may face opposition due to local paradoxes, but even ambivalence can be problematic @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social
New here and not sure who to follow? 👀
We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time.
Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️
go.bsky.app/7STgwpg
We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time.
Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️
go.bsky.app/7STgwpg
June 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
New here and not sure who to follow? 👀
We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time.
Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️
go.bsky.app/7STgwpg
We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time.
Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️
go.bsky.app/7STgwpg
Excited to announce we've joined BlueSky just in time for #IST25! Follow @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social for conference updates and highlights from Lisbon throughout this exciting week!
👉 Want your conference highlights shared on our official channels? Tag our account and use #IST25
👉 Want your conference highlights shared on our official channels? Tag our account and use #IST25
June 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Excited to announce we've joined BlueSky just in time for #IST25! Follow @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social for conference updates and highlights from Lisbon throughout this exciting week!
👉 Want your conference highlights shared on our official channels? Tag our account and use #IST25
👉 Want your conference highlights shared on our official channels? Tag our account and use #IST25