
Presentations and recording of the webinar on "Empowering people for sustainability transitions – cases from We make transition!"
27 May 2025
We make transition! organized a webinar that presented the project’s approach, highlighting the practical use of the Transition Arena method to empower people and promote cooperation between local authorities and local actors. The webinar shared insights and concrete Transition Arena cases from Finland, Estonia, and Germany. These inspiring Transition Arena cases presented in the webinar covered topics such as sustainable life, biodiversity, organic food transition in schools and sustainability in education. Prof. Dr. Derk Loorbach, Director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, provided valued commentary on the cases.
Presentations of the webinar:
We make transition! approach to Transition Arena method – key learnings from empowering people, Johanna Leino, the Baltic Institute of Finland
WMT! Transition Arena stories:
- Nature in My Neighborhood, Uusikaupunki, Henna Salminen, the Regional Council of Southwest Finland
- Tampere Future Arena of Sustainable Life, Johanna Leino, the Baltic Institute of Finland
- Organic Food Transition in Bremen Schools, Tina Schneider, University of Bremen
- Sustainability in Education, Lääne-Harju, Christo Alliksoo, DD Foundation
Also the first version of the We make transition! manual: How to use the Transition Arena method to enhance cooperation between local authorities, civil society, and business actors? is now available for comments. Find the document here.