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R E P O R T
AGENDA SETTING WORKSHOP
TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND SUSTAINABILITY
WITHIN AN INTERCULTURAL ORIENTATION
September 11th to 13th 2018
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Maria De Eguia Huerta, Juliana Merçon, Esther Meyer, Ulli Vilsmaier
‘Complexity or Control? Paradigms for Sustainable Development (CCP)’
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0. Index
Content 0. Index ................................................................................................................................................ 2
1. Agenda Setting Workshop in a nutshell .......................................................................................... 2
2. The background and aims of the Agenda Setting Workshop .......................................................... 3
3. Preparation Process ........................................................................................................................ 5
4. Workshop Program .......................................................................................................................... 6
5. Activities Summaries ........................................................................................................................ 7
5.1. Reformulating the invitation-questions ....................................................................................... 8
5.2. World Café .................................................................................................................................... 9
5.3. Agreeing on priorities: Cards – Clustering .................................................................................. 12
5.4. Exploring forms of ongoing exchange and collaborative research: Concrete Action ................ 13
5.5. Further research questions ........................................................................................................ 15
Annex 1. Participants ............................................................................................................................. 17
Annex 2. Images .................................................................................................................................... 18
1. Agenda Setting Workshop in a nutshell
The Agenda Setting Workshop – Transdisciplinary Research and Sustainability within an
Intercultural Orientation took place at the Leuphana University Lüneburg from September
11th to 13th 2018. The workshop was organized by the project ‘Complexity or Control?
Paradigms for Sustainable Development (CCP)’, a cooperative project of the Methodology
Center, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Sustainability,
Leuphana University Lüneburg, and Arizona State University. It is funded by the
Volkswagen Stiftung and the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur.
The workshop aimed at creating a space for joint exploration of ways of understanding and
further developing transdisciplinary research and sustainability. The rationale behind this
event was to challenge a westernized perspective of researchers and policy makers with
regards to the two core concepts of the workshop: transdisciplinarity and sustainability.
Therefore, a heterogenous group of people in terms of knowledge(s) area(s),
methodologies, (work-) cultures and place of origin(s), amongst others, was invited to
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jointly explore concepts, perspectives and methodologies as well as possible forms of
collaborative research work in the future.
The 22 participants came from 12 countries, including Nigeria, Brazil, Chile, Mexico,
Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Kenya, India, Germany, Austria and Spain. The workshop
benefited from the Td Summer School 2018 [https://www.leuphana.de/en/research-
centers/center-for-methods/training/td-summer-school-2018.html], which took part the
previous week and brought together 30 participants from 26 nations. Some of them took
part in the workshop as a side event of the Td Summer School.
Beyond sharing and developing a culturally sensitive look to transdiciplinarity research and
sustainability, the workshop ended with concrete agreements on working steps for the
formed working groups. These will conceptually and methodologically explore
transdisciplinarity, sustainability and interculturality in established collaborative formations
that shall be further strengthened and accompanied by CCP until the end of project, such
as virtual meetings to deep in specific concepts (such as “territorio” from diverse cultural
perspectives) or the development of case-based mutual learning research workshops.
CCP perspectives were broadened during the Agenda Setting Workshop, while some blind
spots were pointed at. It became clear that the formulation of research questions on
discourses in sustainability sciences, which, in the case of CCP, is informed by mainly
European philosophy, is the subject of situational- and position-dependent communication
relationships. Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability were critically and interculturally
analyzed, allowing content and methodological questions to arise. The danger of new buzz
words serving neoliberal structures based on unequal and unjust (global) relationships was
present throughout the discussions. Td was put in dialog with other researching traditions
such as PAR and connections were traced.
2. The background and aims of the Agenda Setting Workshop
This workshop aimed to create a space for joint exploration of how transdisciplinary
research and sustainability can be researched, understood and transformed. It was based
on the hypothesis that both concepts, transdisciplinarity and sustainability, are strongly
informed by western thinkers, researchers and policy makers, and accordingly, framed
dominantly by western world-views. As there is no escape from a certain situatedness and
(researcher) positionality, a polylog is needed, where explorations and analysis of the
concepts and according practices are realized in community. Our understanding of a
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polylog is based on intercultural philosophy and follows the minimal rule, formulated by
Franz Wimmer:
“Wherever possible, look for transcultural overlapping of philosophical concepts, since it is
probable that well-founded theses have developed in more than one cultural tradition” (Wimmer
2004, p. 67, own translation).
This Agenda Setting Workshop was a starting point for developing an international
research agenda on transdisciplinary research and sustainability. We envisioned the
formation of an intercultural research consortium that critically explores and contributes to
consolidating transdisciplinary research and sustainability/sustainability practices,
emphasising differences in how these concepts and associated practises are formed and
informed in different world regions, under different socio-cultural, economic, political,
historical and geographical conditions. The main objective of this workshop was to learn in
an intercultural group how to explore within an intercultural orientation, to identify
appropriate questions that help to practice a culturally sensitive look at transdisciplinary
research and sustainability and to work with hegemonies within discourse and policies.
Methodological and conceptual questions with deep cultural, historical and political roots
were approached during this event to encourage not only a valuable common
understanding of this field and its richness but also to draw upon critical questions.
Interwoven challenges and potentials of working on the edges of diverse spheres
(academic and non-academic) and creative common ways were discussed. On a more
practical level, we aimed at identifying formats for achieving continuous exchange and
comparative research.
The CCP research team, a consortium of researchers from the Methodology Centre, the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Sustainability, organized the
Agenda Setting Workshop. The CCP project, ‘Complexity or Control? Paradigms for
Sustainable Development’, has an overall objective to contribute to consolidating
epistemological and methodological foundations of transdisciplinary sustainability
research. It became obvious during the research project that there was a need to tackle
the challenges arising from the co-existence of different socio-cultural (research) traditions,
political and economic conditions. In cooperation with Latin American partners, we have
undertaken several activities that offered important learning opportunities in intercultural
settings. In 2017 we organized the International Transdisciplinary Conference in
cooperation with the Swiss td-net, looking at transdisciplinary research and teaching as
intercultural endeavours.
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The CCP research team was able to build on extensive experiences working in intercultural
contexts and on the network work with people and organizations from Latin American
countries (Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, Ecuador) that were established by Ulli Vilsmaier and Esther Meyer within CCP
in recent years. An intensive collaboration was developed with Juliana Mercon from the Td
Escuela de Primavera 2019 in Xalapa, Mexico and a PhD co-supervision between her and
Ulli Vilsmaier. Therefore, Juliana Mercon joined as a CCP fellow and co-organizer of the
Agenda Setting Workshop. This provided an opportunity to discuss Juliana's work, in
preparation for the Agenda Setting Workshop within the CCP team, and thus to exchange
views in a polylogical orientation on the political nature of theories and practices of
transdisciplinary research.
With the Agenda Setting workshop we took a next step in learning how to collaborate and
develop research agendas in intercultural teams and how to start building an intercultural
research consortium. We benefited from the co-presence of participants and trainers from
different world regions that took part in the Td Summer School 2018. CCP is funded by the
Ministry of Science and Culture of the Federal State Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen
Foundation.
3. Preparation Process
In preparation to the workshop, participants were asked to elaborate on the following
questions. They served as a starting point and collaborative (re)formulation of questions to
address during the workshop.
• How can we address transdisciplinary research and sustainability within an
intercultural team? And, subsequently, how can we develop critical explorations
and intercultural as well as comparative research spaces?
• How are different discourses and practices around the universal political principle
of sustainability, as declared by the UN, formed in different socio-cultural contexts
and world regions, as well as economic, political and geographic conditions? And,
as a corollary, are there hybrid forms that incorporate and transform the principle
of sustainability? And are there forms of resistance?
• Where, and in which languages, is the notion of transdisciplinarity used in scientific
and public discourses? How is the concept of transdisciplinarity informed in different
socio-cultural contexts and world regions? Are there other concepts that address
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similar practices of transdisciplinary research? (here, an iterative process and
mapping of the semantics of transdisciplinarity and similar practices will be
necessary as there is neither a fixed starting point nor a centre).
4. Workshop Program
The Agenda Setting Workshop Program was an open proposal that was developed to
serve as a structuring framework. However, its conception was primarily oriented towards
allowing organic, spontaneous and dynamic discussions and working practices to arise
and be integrated. The program was adapted as activities were happening and they were
previously announced, explained and agreed upon by the group.
The workshop program was sent to the participants as follows:
Agenda Setting Workshop Program
Tuesday 11th September 2018
18:00h Evening Event – Getting to Know Each other: people, places, institutions and
experiences
Wednesday 12th September 2018
09:00h – 10:30h Getting on board. Presenting the CCP-project
10:30h – 11:00h Coffee Break
11:00h – 12:50h Developing our common objectives and preparatory work
12:50h – 14:00h Lunch Break
14:00h – 16:00h Concept work: Transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, sustainability
16:00h – 16:30h Coffee Break
16:30h – 18:00h Positionality
Thursday 13th September
09:00h – 10:30 h Connecting to day 1
10:30h – 11:00h Coffee Break
11:00h – 12:50h Agreeing on priorities
12:50h – 14:00h Lunch Break
14:00h – 16:00h Exploring forms of ongoing exchange and collaborative research
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16:00h – 16:30h Coffee Break
16:30h – 17:30h Closing
5. Activities Summaries
11th September 2018
The Agenda Setting Workshop began with a welcome dinner on the 11th September, in
which we had the opportunity to get to know each other. Those already sharing the past
days together with the TD Summer School 2018 had the chance to deep in some
conversations that had already started some days ago or simply enjoy the great
flourishment of international friendships.
12th September 2018
The second day we met we had our arrival and welcome, as well as a short introduction of
the outline, which was presented as dynamic and open, so that the group would be the one
deciding the rhythm, the content and the final outcome of our intercontinental gathering. A
presentation of the CCP project as the initiator of the Agenda Setting Workshop followed
and some questions were clarified.
Our common work began by building groups. The questions that were sent with the outline
in the invitation Email were discussed, revised and negotiated. At the end, some new
questions were formulated and presented by the working groups.
The afternoon was devoted to concept work. An explorative approach to “sustainability”,
“transdisciplinarity” and “interculturality” was chosen. The activity World Café was a great
chance to deep in those concepts from very diverse perspectives within each group and
amongst the groups.
13th September 2018
In the last day of the Agenda Setting Workshop priorities were shared, organised, and
agreed upon. The first part of the day was dedicated to a more theoretical or abstract
perspective on that, while in the afternoon the objective was to come to very concrete
proposals and agreements, as the first steps to build a collaborative research network.
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In what follows we present the most important activities and results. It is our perception
that many enriching interactions happened during the whole Agenda Setting Workshop
which were not included in the descriptions offered in this document. Also, we would like
to point out that the very conscious decision of not intensively protocolling the working
groups and other settings during the workshops implies that the report is less dense than
if this would have been done.
5.1. Reformulating the invitation-questions The groups discussed intensively about the invitation questions. These were the following:
▪ How can we address transdisciplinary research and sustainability within an intercultural
team? And, subsequently, how can we develop critical explorations and intercultural as
well as comparative research spaces?
▪ How are different discourses and practices around the universal political principle of
sustainability, as declared by the UN, formed in different socio-cultural contexts and
world regions, as well as economic, political and geographic conditions? And, as a
corollary, are there hybrid forms that incorporate and transform the principle of
sustainability? And are there forms of resistance?
▪ Where, and in which languages, is the notion of transdisciplinarity used in scientific and
public discourses? How is the concept of transdisciplinarity informed in different socio-
cultural contexts and world regions? Are there other concepts that address similar
practices of transdisciplinary research? (here, an iterative process and mapping of the
semantics of transdisciplinarity and similar practices will be necessary as there is
neither a fixed starting point nor a centre).
Most of the groups had to spend a considerably big amount of time decoding the questions,
creating a common understanding about what they may mean or point at. After that, critics,
questions about the questions, and new proposals were developed within the groups. Here,
the most valuable was the dialogue within each group. The resulting questions were only the
last step. These were discussed and reformulated. One group presented a total reformulated
version of the questions after they discussed: “How does the context shape people’s
understandings of sustainability? How do these understandings relate to the UN concept?
Where and how are notions and practices of Td being used? Which other notions and practices
exist that interact with Td?”. The other two groups presented an overview of their analysis,
critic and some proposals, which are listed in what follows:
• It is necessary to “substitute principle by notion”.
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• Clearer questions are needed, and they should not be that long, for it makes it hard to
follow.
• Caution is purposed to avoid taken for granted of meanings in terms such as “culture”.
• The problem of language has to be adressed: What is gained/lost in translation? How
can we establish mutual understanding, if communication is permanent interpretation?
Are there other forms of representation?
• “Questioning the western perspective is very western”
• From thinking to doing Td: Very few experiences where this is applied
5.2. World Café The World Café activity aimed at engaging in a very open and dynamic way with the concepts
sustainability, interculturality and transdisciplinarity. Comments, lived experiences, related
concepts, questions, definitions, characteristics, possible deviations had space to arise, be
spoken out and be written down or drawn. As the World Café possibilities, the discussion not
only took place between the members of one group but between the groups, as they had the
chance to see fin the poster and listen from the table convener what the previous groups
discussed and answer back by talking, drawing and writing down, too. To have an idea about
the richness as well as for documentation purposes, the picture of the resulting posters suits
best. The richness of this result is the outcomes of intense discussions amongst very differently
located and socialised people from all over the world. For by having a closer look, one can see
that many possible questions are already there to be found or to be developed.
Sustainability
The Sustainability table asked, “Sustainability for whom?” “What for?” and “How?”.
Sustainablility was at times explained as a buzz word containing the risks of being used in
discourses to gain legitimacy but remaining empty in terms of transformativity and radicality.
Issues of power were mentioned as well as possible uses of “sustainability” for consumerism
promotion (e.g. supermarket products announced as “sustainable”). Resilience and a critic to
the scarcity discourse were analysed and de-growth was for most of the participants a key
concept to take into account when thinking of sustainability. The Sustainability table asked if
there is a way of thinking of sustainability in a non-economicist way and questions on social
classes and inequalities as well as ways of relating to other human being were posed as part
of the Sustainability discussion.
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World Café Results on Sustainability – Agenda Setting Workshop CCP September 2018, Leuphana
Transdisciplinarity
The discussion about transdisciplinarity referred to a contested and fluid concept, a different
way of doing science, embedded also in traditional knowledge, acknowledgment of different
kinds of knowledge. Also, there were references to Td as a mode of domesticating research
and stakeholders. Td was seen as solving practical problems “in the real world”. At one point
there was the question about its novelty: is Td something new or just a different way to name
practices that have been existing for decades? In this sense, Td was also explained as the
European version of the Latinamerican IAP (PAR). Clear critiques were presented, such as a
way of doing research that is intensively time consuming. At the same time, however, Td was
also explained as one that needs and promotes dialogue, mutual understanding, fluidity,
(de)construction of fixed concepts and work based on collaborative procedures.
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World Café Results on Transdisciplinary – Agenda Setting Workshop CCP September 2018, Leuphana
Interculturality
The Interculturality table had a key discussion about what is culture. Despite it not being
possible to agree on one single and fixed definition, diverse notions of culture were put next to
each other. Culture was explained as worldviews, as always hybrid, and culture borders as
virtual, flexible and permeable. Culture was understood closely to identities, gender and caste,
amongst others. Someone asked if Interculturality masks power relations and in any case
power and inequalities were of central meaning within the table discussion. Conflict was a key
issue that arose oft. Critical voices warned about the danger of interculturality as being a
current fashion and relations were traced to a neoliberal discourse of multiculturality.
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World Café Results on Interculturality – Agenda Setting Workshop CCP September 2018, Leuphana
5.3. Agreeing on priorities: Cards – Clustering In the morning of the 13th September, each person thought of the topics and methodologies
(in relation to sustainability, transdisciplinarity, intercultural orientation) that would be a priority
for him or her to work on. In that way the topics and methodologies were clustered organically
and accompanied by a whole-group-debate.
List of the topics as structured at one point of the process
Clustering 1: Scarcity; Blue Economy; Talking about Economics; Economy as social relationships
Clustering 2: Support empirical practices; (research on) cooperative, transformative, research
practices; co-construction and transmission of knowledges; Indigenous local knowledge, bottom up;
Transdisciplinary, integrated knowledge concept, sustainability balance renovation; mutual learning
about challenges and tensions in Td research and ways to deal with them; what are the best ways
to measure sustainability for goa setting of accountability?
Clustering 3: (de)construction of (tired) ideas; cultures as path dependencies, as barriers slowing
down sustainability, how we overcome those barriers?; The politics of methodology, how to
perform Td in a way that is truly fostering social justice?; experimenting with and reflectiong on
differences for socio-ecological justice.
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Clustering 4: Multiple actors, different visions, potential of conflicts; Which are some of the specific
Td aspects to consider in cases of environmental conflict?, theory and methodology; conflicts of
diverse knowledge chains in Td research and de-construction role plays in conflict management.
Clustering 5: How can we foster sustainability thinking through Nexus approach?; Co-management
of common pool resources (water); Territory co-management.
These are some impressions of this process:
5.4. Exploring forms of ongoing exchange and collaborative research: Concrete Action At the end of the workshop groups rearranged the clustering of cards they took to their working
table, they played with the cards to see alternative structures, connections and questions
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behind the mentioned themes. In what followed, the groups discussed about possible specific
forms of collaboration and developed an action plan. It was strongly encouraged that very
concrete steps would be developed with names and tasks, as well as a rough timeline.
The groups presented to the plenary their action plans or proposals so that those interested to
join them would be able to listen to the concrete plan.
Some of the specific proposals that were developed are listed in what follows:
• A virtual seminar: local groups in different countries, 6 months with two meetings per
month, co-organized by diverse institutions and multi-actor groups.
• A platform of cooperation and a Td-Study to transform education via comparative
research on transformative methodology. This shall be made, amongst others through
the coordination of M.A. students and a research workshop in Brasil (casecase-based
mutual learning). The cases shall be from Brasil, Chile and Bolivia.
• Building understandings of the concept “territorio”: Virtual meetings for sharing
concepts and new insights. Virtual meetings to discuss: Are there
similar/neighbouring/connecting concepts around the world? Under what conditions is
“territorio” co-management successful or a failure? Based on these discussions
broaden indicators shall be explored that could contribute to this debate.
• Water scarcity: concept work, collect cases through virtual meetings.
These are some images of this activity:
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5.5. Further research questions During the Agenda Setting Workshop the participants had the opportunity to write down
possible further issues to research, that were meaningful within the constellation of the group.
The poster stood in a corner of the room and it was possible to add issues as they appeared
in people’s mind. Some people decided to add their name, so that everyone knows who
purposed that specific issue, others decided not to do so. This is the resulting list:
Further issues: - Sustainability as an oblique (indirect) goal - Normativity of sustainability and the other normative worlds (conflicting values) - Making transdisciplinarity more accessible (Stefan) - Democratization of knowledge + don’t forget the alternative worldviews (Inta) - Alternative ways of sharing/co-creating knowledge (?) journal pagers (Stefan) - Open science (Stefan) - Td to solve real world problems - Td integrated knowledge conception - Sustainability-balance, renovation - Bio-diversity conservation (Fonda) - Non-verbal research approaches (Moritz) - Societal conditions for collective research (Moritz) - Intercultural challenges and strategies found in “Td for sustainability” experiences in
different world regions - Knowledge “integration” and/or “cocreation” processes wjere traditional knowledge is
involved - Social learning (Rodrigo) - De-growth (Rodrigo) - Questioning societal assumptions through Td Research (Moritz) - Up-welling sustainability through Td research (Sola) - Conditions for collective action (Ranjini) - Local management practices and corresponding ecological outcomes (Ranjini)
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- What is knowledge in an intercultural and Td context? (Paolo) - How to horizontalize academy-society relations for knowledge co-construction? (Paolo) - Build organizations for alternative economies (Paolo) - Which relationships do we need to build, nurture and foster for a sustainable future?
(Paolo) - Value different forms of knowledge without romanticize or essentialize (Paolo) - Governance of sustainability? Global? UN? - Growth waits? - SDG’S - Indigenous local knowledge – intercultural dialogue (Marcus) - Decolonizing sustainability research (Sola) - Decentralizing sustainability science through advancement of shared best practices (Sola)
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Annex 1. Participants
Given name
Surname Country of origin
Institutional background
Olusola Matthew
Adeoye Nigeria Foundation for Environmental Mediation, Nigeria (Co-Founder)
Fonda Jane
Awuor Kenya Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, National Aquaculture Research Development and Training Centre (NARDTC), Socioeconomist
Marcus Vinícius
Carvalho Garcia
Brazil Inventário Nacional da Diversidade Linguística/CGIR/DPI, Brasília/DF
Beatriz Delgado Aranda
Bolivia Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA), Bolivia
Angel Rodrigo
Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico, Master Student - Sustainability Science
Gregory Mero Dowo
Zimbabwe PhD Candidate, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zimbabwe
Ranjini Rebecca
Murali India PhD Candidate, Snow Leopard Trust and Nature Conservation Foundation, in affiliation with Manipal University
Heliodoro Ochoa-García
Mexico PhD Candidate at Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, and ITESO Jesuit University of Guadalajara
Paolo Eugenido
Perasso Cerda
Chile Ethnographic Researcher, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Campus Villarrica
Januária Pereira Mello
Brazil Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária, Superintendência Regional do Rio de Janeiro
Badal Pokharel Nepal PhD Candidate, Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Inta Rivas Chile Universidad de Chile, Project Coordinator, Vice-Rectory for Research and Development
Juliana Mercon Brazil Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, Professor at the Institute of Educational Research
Beate Littig Germany Institute for Advances Studies Vienna, Head of the Department of Sociology and Senior Researcher of the division Socio-ecological transformation
Julian Parra Fernández Chile PhD candidate, Universidad Católica de Chile, Public Management Master
Daniela Peukert Germany PhD Candidate, Leuphana - Project: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
Esther Mayer Germany PhD Candidate, Leuphana - CCP Project, Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation
Ulli Vilsmaier Austria Prof. Transdisciplinary Methods, Leuphana - CCP Project, Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation
Maria De Eguia Huerta Spain
Postdoc Researcher, Leuphana - CCP Project, Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation (CCP Project)
Steffan Hilser Germany PhD Candidate, Leuphana - Robert Bosch Research Group, Processes of Sustainability Transformation
Moritz Engbers Germany Postdoc Researcher, Leuphana - Project: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
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Annex 2. Images
These are some impressions of the participants fully engaged in enriching, complex
challenging debates:
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