Partners
Future Earth
Future Earth is a global network of scientists, researchers, and innovators collaborating for a more sustainable planet.
At Future Earth, we believe that research, innovation, and collaboration can transform the world toward sustainability. We harness the experience and reach of thousands of scientists and innovators from across the globe. Together, this global community facilitates research, mobilises networks, sparks innovation, and turns knowledge into action.
cCHANGE
cCHANGE, founded by University of Oslo Professor Karen O’Brien and Linda Sygna, is a research and values driven business working on the human and social dimensions of transformations to sustainability. cCHANGE bridges disciplines and themes, offering an integrated perspective on climate change and sustainability research, education, and action. Pushing the frontiers of knowledge and action on climate change and sustainability, cCHANGE focuses on how and why people play a critical role in generating transformations to sustainability. Backed by over 30 years of cutting-edge research, cCHANGE offers research, strategic advice, workshops, talks and powerful tools that help individuals and organizations understand and actively engage with climate change and sustainability solutions. cCHANGE collaborates with ministries, agencies, municipalities and county councils, businesses, civil society, education, and research institutions across the world.
Cobalt
We are a working group of over 130 people from 26 countries devoted to a more just, equitable and regenerative future. We are pioneers in field of Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis and therefore have created a Global Working Group - composed of 12 workstreams to explore the horizons of this emerging field. We aspire to create frameworks and maps that aid our understanding of T-systems, from social networks to economic systems to co-creating "bioregional macroscopes” to better see the systems we are all living in, across many scales. Our ultimate purpose is nothing less than to contribute to a new social, ecological and economic Enlightenment. Come and explore with us what it could be to map transformations to a just and regenerative future. We have many voices, a big table and are stronger with diverse perspectives.
Netweaver Network
Connecting network leaders to the best ideas, resources and methods as we create a lively co-learning community that advances the science and practice of transformative learning networks.
Transition Design Institute
Carnegie Mellon will be launching its Transition Design Institute in just a few months. Stay up to date with their progress by visiting their website at the link below.
Beyond Bounce
Bounce Beyond is an attempt to lay out plans for a new, planet-friendly economics, driven by very different indicators than our current socio-economic systems, and fully motivated by climate change, pandemic and much else. A website will be launching in the coming months. Click the link below for a short introductory article.
Collective Mind believes in the power of networks to foster collective action. Our mission is to support networks, and the people that work for and with networks, to improve their effectiveness and impact. We work with networks from global to local in scope and focused on a wide range of topics and issues. We provide direct support to networks through consulting, advisory, and tools such as our network diagnostic framework and network capacity assessment. We also provide learning and professional development opportunities to network practitioners through a range of offerings and resources via our learning community. As we build the field of networks practice, we provide frameworks for understanding and analyzing networks and thought leadership to address the challenges that networks face.
Resilience Alliance
The Resilience Alliance (RA) is a research organization that focuses on resilience in social-ecological systems as a basis for sustainability. Established in 1999, the RA is comprised of a network of international, multidisciplinary researchers who are at the forefront of resilience thinking and practice. RA members collaborate across disciplines to advance the understanding and practical application of resilience, adaptive capacity, and transformation of societies and ecosystems in order to cope with change and support human well-being.
AR+
Our ambition at AR+ is to connect and support Action Researchers for Transformation. AR+ promotes pragmatic scholarly practice. We're in service of ever expanding circles of self development within education-, politics-, business-, relationships. We're creating knowledge that is capable of revising practices in the face of new evidence. Our aspiration is that more of us who practice Action Research for Transformations (ART) may revitalize our social institutions as we learn to become beneficial presences on our shared Earth.
Catalyst 2030
Catalyst 2030 is a global movement of social entrepreneurs and social innovators from all sectors who share the common goal of creating innovative, people-centric approaches to attain the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Joining forces with communities, governments, businesses, and others, Catalyst 2030 members are changing systems at all levels through collective action and bold, new strategies.
The Weaving Lab
The Weaving Lab is a global community who are growing ‘weaving’ as a leadership mindset and practice that helps everyone thrive together. Weaving involves cultivating ecosystems in which people learn to collaborate and to live for universal wellbeing (of self, species and planet).
AfrEA
The African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) was founded in 1999 in response to a growing demand for information sharing, advocacy, and advanced evaluation capacity building in Africa. With the Secretariat in Accra, Ghana, AfrEA serves as an umbrella body of more than 39 national associations and networks of monitoring and evaluation (VOPES), 12 International Institutions, and 113 individual members.
Collective Leadership Institute
The Collective Leadership Institute is a cutting-edge organization with expertise in bringing emerging paradigm leadership concepts to multi-stakeholder processes and projects in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and fostering systemic transformations. With more than 20 years of experience in stewarding systems transformations and embedding change stewardship capacity, CLI fosters a deeper understanding of systemic challenges through the use of practical tools that leads to the emergence of flourishing collaboration ecosystems dedicated to positive change and large systems transformation. CLI is active in many development projects and transmits its experience and knowledge through studies and books
International Science Council
The International Science Council (ISC) is a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together over 200 international scientific unions and associations as well as national and regional scientific organizations including academies and research councils.
“ISC’s Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) research programme was designed to increase the social science contribution to addressing global environmental change, by providing a platform for social scientists, including from the Global South, to lead interdisciplinary sustainability research; building research capacity for international, transdisciplinary sustainability research; and promoting the use of the best social science knowledge available.”
Earth System Governance
The Earth System Governance Project is a global, interdisciplinary research network advancing knowledge at the interface between global environmental change and governance. The project aims to explore political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with global environmental change. The network connects and mobilizes scholars from the social sciences and humanities working from local to global scales.