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Transformative and Participatory Approaches

Mission

The Transformative and Participatory Approaches Unit ensures that the Global Climate Hub’s scientific outputs are co-developed and grounded in local realities through inclusive stakeholder engagement. Using System Innovation and Transition Management methodologies, it establishes Transformative Living Labs and multi-actor platforms that co-design solutions aligned with the Six UN SDSN Transformations for achieving the SDGs. These labs integrate the outcomes and procedures of the Physical, Energy, and Socio-Economic Systems Modelling Units with participatory processes.

Thus, the Unit fosters community and policy dialogue, Systems Innovation Approach (SIA), Living Labs and the Living Lab Modeler Tool, foresight methods (such as Backcasting) and stakeholder mapping, with participatory methods and workshops being some of its common tools and approaches to reach common visions of implementable, context-sensitive and evidence-based policies, customized to the lived realities of those they impact.

Head

Ebun Akinsete

Dr., Senior Researcher, ICRE8, SDU at ATHENA RC, ReSEES AUEB

Eleni Toli

Project Manager at "Athena" Research and Innovation Center

Team

Alice Guittard

Geographer specialized in Sea & Coastal

Panagiota Koltsida

Research Associate at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & "Athena" Research Center

Monika Mavragani

Researcher, ReSEES Lab Athens University of Economics and Business

Lydia Papadaki

PhD Can., Athens University of Economics and Business

Eleni Petra

Project Manager, Scientific Consultant, "Athena" Research and Innovation Center

Anna Triantafyllidou

Researcher, ReSEES Lab Athens University of Economics and Business

    Supporting Projects

    Water Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems

    Funded by the European Research Council

    PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business

    ARSINOE: Climate Resilient Regions Through Systemic Solutions and Innovations

    PI, Prof. Chrysi Laspidou, University of Thessaly 

    PI, Prof. Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business

    PI, Dr. Ebun Akinsete, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center

    PI, Martin Drews, Technical University of Denmark

    PI, Prof. Ralf Ludwig, LMU Munich

    DESIRA: Digitisation Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas

    PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center 

    SIMRA: Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas

    PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, International Center for Research on The Environment and the Economy (ICRE8)

    Research Papers on Stakeholder Engagement

    Koltsida, P., Toli, E., Marinos-Kouris, C., Dorgiakis, M., Ioannidis, Y., & Koundouri, P. (2024). The Living Lab Modeler: A Tool to Leverage the Activities and Impact of Your Living Lab. Link 

    Akinsete, E., Velias, A., & Koundouri, P. (2023). Integrating Experimental Economics and Living Labs in Water Resource Management. Link  

    Akinsete, E., Guittard, A., Koundouri, P., & Papadaki, L. (2023). Blue Transitions in the Black Sea: Living Labs as a Tool to Support the Transition to a Sustainable Blue Economy in the Black Sea. Link 

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