"The situation of insecurity in the whole world requires resilience strategies instead of efectivity strategies: this is what sustainable development can offer, but only if it is applied through transformations in the key societal systems." Read Eeva Furman's article for IDEES magazine here.

The 25th annual colloquium of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Sciences (YHYS) on Measuring and valuing sustainability will be organized by LUT University, Department of Sustainability Science. The colloquium includes high-level keynote speeches, workshop sessions and a panel discussion. ORSI consortium members will be chairing sessions at the event. Call for abstracts is open until 20.9.2020.

Business experimentation has been recognized as an important means for accelerating transitions towards a circular economy (CE). This paper aims to develop...

4-5 November 2020 Registration and Call for Abstracts are now open! The EEEN 2020...

Our Pirkanmaa region contains many incredible solutions and ideas to make the world ecologically and socially sustainable, fair and just. The ideas might be there, but is widespread action actually happening? What’s standing in the way, and how can we improve this? To help things happen, we created Ekothon - a hackathon-inspired two-day event online. Register by 18th of September!

The covid-19 crisis is causing a drastic rise of unemployment rates around Europe. Instead of using just old recipes the crisis could also be the starting point for an ecosocial transition in labour market policies. In the past, sustainability of labour market and unemployment policies was discussed one-dimensionally: understood as financial or economic sustainability to keep public spending as low as possible. Environmental sustainability was not an issue. In our recent study we tried to tackle this problem from an environmental social work and social policy research perspective. The results revealed much potential on different levels. Read the full blog post by Ingo Stamm, Aila-Leena Matthies, Tuuli Hirvilammi, Kati Närhi here.