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.
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
CATALYST: European VET Excellence Centre for Leading Sustainable Systems and Business Transformation
PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business
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)
AWESOME: Managing Water, Ecosystems and Food Across Sectors and Scales in the South Mediterranean
PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business
Deep Demonstrations for Zero-Net Emissions in the port of Piraeus
PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center
SysMa 4 Transition: System Mapping as a Service for post-COVID Regional Transition
PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center
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