SSH, policy and governance expertise

Demos Helsinki represents state-of-the-art in the domains of sustainability transitions, urban governance and democratic innovations. With our background in transformation reserach and social sciences, we can lead work packages on e.g., analysing social equity, co-creation and anticipatory governance. We have also been responsible for policy interaction and impact in research projects; recommendations, scenarios, roadmaps on just transition and effective biodiversity policies.

Please only approach me to propose concrete proposal collaboration. If you are unable to reach me you can contact my colleague Kari Jalonen (@demoshelsinki.fi).

Example Work Package themes we could lead:

1. Transformative governance: e.g., roles and capacities of public administration, institutional innovation, policy integration, multi-level governance, mission-oriented governance, systemic change, governance tools for sustainability transitions.

2. Citizen participation and co-creation: e.g. experimentalist governance, experimentation models, scaling up experiments, democratic innovations for citizen deliberation, stakeholder participation, citizen science, social innovations, living labs.

Other roles we could take:

• Connections between policy domains: Exploring interconnections, synergies, and tensions between biodiversity and other domains, e.g., economy, human wellbeing, liveability, culture, and security

• Multi-actor engagement: Increasing agency of diverse actors, using collaborative methods to define shared goals and catalyze joint biodiversity action between e.g., the public and private sector and the civil society 

• Just transition: Considerations of social justice and inclusiveness in the initiatives and policies addressing biodiversity loss 

• Multi-level governance of biodiversity action: E.g., alignment of EU, National, regional and local biodiversity action, coordination and collaboration across domains

• Policy interaction, recommendations and dissemination: e.g. societal change and impact pathways, roadmaps for future, policy recommendations, policy observatory, dissemination, exploitation and sustainability plans

• Futures studies and methods: E.g., foresight, scenarios, visions, pathways, Delphi studies, weak signals, futures games, participatory and creative methods

See more:

https://demoshelsinki.fi/research/

https://demoshelsinki.fi/16-horizon-projects-later-our-goal-is-the-same/