Welcome to the February 2016 ISSC Newsletter
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Transformative Knowledge Networks launched
We recently announced that three “Transformative Knowledge Networks” will be funded as part of the Transformations to Sustainability Programme. The programme, which was launched by the ISSC in 2014, aims to harness the potential of the social sciences to contribute to solving some of the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges by means of a better understanding of the processes of social transformation. The three Transformative Knowledge Networks were selected from a field of 88 eligible submissions. They will each receive €850,000 over three years through the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) for the Transformations to Sustainability Programme.
Get to know the three selected networks:
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ACKnow-EJ
Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice
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PATHWAYS
Transformative pathways to sustainability
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T-Learning
Transgressive Social Learning for Social-Ecological Sustainability
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In addition to the three selected networks, a further five proposals had been short-listed but could not be funded with the existing programme budget.Together the funded and short-listed networks will form an ever-growing community of researchers focusing on the theme of social transformation in the context of global environmental change and sustainability. Click on the map to explore where members of the selected and shortlisted proposals are based:
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The International Year of Global Understanding
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From climate change to the wider societal impacts of income inequality, the global consequences of local actions are increasingly noticeable. Changing the world is everyone’s business, and taking action involves an understanding of the many ways in which the local and the global are intertwined. This is the central idea of the 2016 “International Year of Global Understanding” (IYGU), which was inaugurated at a public ceremony in Jena, Germany, earlier this week...
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Dates for your diary
Data to Decisions: Valuing the Societal Benefit of Geospatial Information
Starts: March 10, 2016
Location: Paris, France
Ethics and Social Media Research Conference
Starts: March 21, 2016
Location: London, UK
Fourth CODESRIA Conference on Electronic Publishing
Starts: March 28, 2016
Location: Dakar, Senegal
IUAES Inter-Congress - World anthropologies and privatization of knowledge: engaging anthropology in public
Starts: May 4, 2016
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Child Poverty and Social Protection in Western and Central Africa
Starts: May 23, 2016
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
16th Conference of the Science Council of Asia (SCA)
Starts: May 30, 2016
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Third ISA Forum of Sociology
Starts: July 10, 2016
Location: Vienna, Austria
IPSA World Congress of Political Science
Starts: July 23, 2016
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
2016 IIAS-IASIA Joint Congress
Starts: September 20, 2016
Location: Chengdu, China
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