Demos Helsinki

We are a globally operating, not-for-profit, independent think tank and a research organisation. We were founded in 2005 and employm over 70 reserachers. We have five reserach strands on societal transformations: transformative governance, socio-ecological justice, urban transformations, transformations of democracy, and technology in society. We are part of 20+ Horizon Europe projects, often in SSH and policy-relevant roles. We also employ futures studies and co-creation apporaches frequently.

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