TRANSPATH – Transformative pathways for synergising just biodiversity and climate actions (2022 – 2026) Led by Wageningen University and Research.
TIPPING+ – Enabling positive tipping points towards clean-energy transitions in coal and carbon intensive regions (2020-2023; Principal Investigator).
ARTS4SDG – Arts for Sustainable Development Goals. On examining, learning-with and further elaborating novel Arts-based Sustainability Research approaches for realizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lead by University of Lund and funded by Swedish FORMAS (2019).
TRANSFORM – Accelerating Sustainability Entrepreneurship Experiments at the Local Scale (2019-2026) on developing a global netwok of Research and Practice Hubs for sustainable business models and SMEs engaged in sustainability transformations. Led by University of Waterloo. https://www.transformcities.ca/ ; https://www.transformcities.ca/team-page-1
GREEN-WIN – Green growth and win-win strategies for sustainable climate action (2015 – 2018). On developing a global dialogue on green economy based on grounded experiences of win-win solutions and new forms of green entrepreneurship to deal with climate change and sustainable development challenges.
IMPRESSIONS – Impacts and risks from high-end scenarios: Strategies for innovative solutions – (2013 – 2018) on exploring impacts and risks from high-end climate scenarios and developing strategies for innovative systemic solutions impressions-project.eu ; www.highendsolutions.eu
IPCC AR5 in EUROPE – Usability, framing, and communication of scientific knowledge (2014 – 2016). JPI lead by the Centre of International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), Oslo, Norway. cicero.uio.no
KLASICA – KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND SOCIETAL CHANGE ALLIANCE (2011-2021). An International Research and Action network and IHDP initiative based at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam.
VISION RD4SD – Producing a shared vision on how to harness Research & Development for Sustainable Development (2010 – 2013) on developing, together with EU science policy makers, a shared vision to harness Research and Development for Sustainable Development (RD4SD).
GLOBAL SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND POLICIES (2010 – 2013) to develop the first EU Orientation Paper on Global Systems Science. http://blog.global-systems-science.eu/?p=1473 ; https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/95741/factsheet/en
RESCUE – Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth (2010-2011) a European Science Foundation foresight initiative on developing integrated science responses to global environmental change and unsustainability.
INTEGRATED RISK GOVERNANCE PROJECT (2009-2019) of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, on large scale risks that exceed the current human capacities to cope with them.
ADAM – Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies. Supporting European Climate Policy (2006-2009) on developing innovative climate appraisal processes using a comparative regional perspective. I developed the transition-oriented concepts of ‘Integrated Climate Governance’ and the ‘climate learning ladder’, based on empirical insights obtained in five regional case studies.
MATISSE – Methods and tools for Integrated Sustainability Assessment; (2005-2008) it developed the approach for Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA). Case study leader in the domain of water.
SUSTAINABILITY A-TEST – Sustainability Advanced Test; (2004-2006) on defining and inventorying Sustainability Assessment tools and methods.
PEG – Precautionary Expertise on GM crops (2001-2004) on Precaution and Integrated Assessment of GM crops in Europe.
HARMONICOP – Harmonising collaborative learning (2002-2005) on social learning in river basin management in Europe. Main author of the integration report containing 10 national and 10 river basin case studies.
FIRMA – Freshwater Integrated Resource Management with agents (1999-2003) on agent-based participatory modelling.
ULYSSES Urban Lifestyles, Sustainability and Integrated Environmental Assessment; 1996-1999; which developed the concept and seminal methods for public participation in sustainability science. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/31818/factsheet/en ; https://www.jvds.nl/ulysses/
GOVERNANCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT (1995-1996) with the United Nations University (1995-1996) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.