WMT! contributes to a workshop at European Week of Regions and Cities 2025
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
14. October 2025
15:30 - 16:30 (CET)
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We make transition! promotes cooperation between local authorities, civil society, small business and other local actors. The project has focused on bringing views and ideas of civil society and other local actors on the following sustainability topics:Â 1) sustainable lifestyle, 2) agriculture & food, 3) biodiversity and 4) circular & sharing economy.
The project uses the transition arena method to identify challenges, create a shared vision and build on this to develop new cooperation towards a sustainable future.
WMT! project partners have organised a total of 12 transition arena processes in 12 different locations: 1) Hämeenkyrö Agriculture Arena, 2) Helsinki-Uusimaa Circular Transition, 3) Sustainable Future in Kimitoön, 4) Uusikaupunki - Nature in my Neighbourhood, 5) Tartu Circular Economy Transition, 6) Organic Food Transition in Bremen Schools, 7) Organic Food Transition in Vidzeme region, 8) Trondheim Sustainable Food System, 9) Tampere Future Arena of Sustainable Life, 10) Sustainability Transition in Education, Lääne-Harju, 11) Gdynia Cross-sectoral Sustainability, 12) Namsos Circular Initiatives.
Local and regional authorities have a crucial role in driving resilience – societal ability to adapt and react. Due to the complexity of sustainability challenges, there is a need to mobilise all levels of society to develop solutions that enable a needed change in our unsustainable practices. Various civil society actors – associations, social entrepreneurs, cooperatives, communities, individuals – can have a pioneering role in enhancing ecological and social sustainability.
We make transition! project engages a great number of regional and local authorities, civil society, and small business actors from the Baltic Sea region. Partners from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany and Norway cooperate with altogether 12 cities and municipalities in implementing local transition arena workshop processes. Transition arena is a series of workshops including co-creation of a joint vision, pathways towards the vision, concrete actions and initiatives. Topics of the arena processes are related e.g. on 1) sustainable lifestyle, 2) agriculture & food, 3) biodiversity and 4) circular & sharing economy.
The project invited also altogether 30 change agents from the six partner countries to co-create a Baltic Sea region sustainability vision that represents the views of civil society and small local actors. The Baltic Sea region vision of sustainable life 2035 has provided an inspirational framework for all the local transition arena workshop processes.
Transition arena processes strengthen the local sense of community and initiate jointly developed and agreed actions towards the desired future. The main output of the project is a manual for applying the transition arena method in practical way to enhance cooperation between local authorities, civil society and business actors. The participatory processes implemented in 12 locations during the project are coached and disseminated to local authorities and other interested parties in the Baltic Sea region.
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
14. October 2025
15:30 - 16:30 (CET)
Project: We make transition!
Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting
26. November 2025
09:00 - 16:00 (EET)
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
20. - 22. May 2025
00:00 - 23:59 (BST)
Project: We make transition!
Virtual Meeting
15. May 2025
13:30 - 15:30 (EET)
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
23. - 24. April 2025
00:00 - 23:59 (CEST)
Project: We make transition!
Virtual Meeting & Physical Meeting
13. - 14. November 2024
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
30. October 2024
16:00 - 16:30 (CET)
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
08. October 2024
18:00 - 21:00 (CET)
Project: We make transition!
Physical Meeting
14. - 15. February 2024
Project: We make transition!
Virtual Meeting
25. May 2023
12:00 - 14:00 (EEST)
Project: We make transition!
Virtual Meeting
09. May 2023
13:00 - 15:30 (EEST)
Project: We make transition!
Virtual Meeting
25. April 2023
10:00 - 12:30 (EEST)
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