
We make transition!
We make transition!
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 Kimitoön, 4) Uusikaupunki - Nature in my neighbourhood, 5) Tartu Circular 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 Materials.
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 has invited altogether 30 change agents from the six partner countries to co-create a sustainability vision and recommendations on empowering the cooperation between local authorities and civil society actors to enhance ecological and social sustainability. The transnational change agent group includes representatives of civil society, entrepreneurs, and local authorities. 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 will be a practical manual for applying the transition management approach to make strategy processes such as climate plans, roadmaps, and local strategies more interactive involving different levels of society. The participatory processes implemented in 12 locations during the project will be disseminated to local authorities and other interested parties in the Baltic Sea Region.
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3.30MillionTotal
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2.41MillionErdf
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0.14MillionNorway
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- TownTampere
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- CountryFinland
- RegionPirkanmaa
- RepresentativeThe Baltic Institute of Finland
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- TownTampere
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- CountryFinland
- RegionPirkanmaa
- RepresentativeCouncil of Tampere Region
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- TownHelsinki
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- CountryFinland
- RegionHelsinki-Uusimaa
- RepresentativeThe Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council
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- TownTurku
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- CountryFinland
- RegionVarsinais-Suomi
- RepresentativeRegional Council of Southwest Finland
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- TownTartu
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- CountryEstonia
- RegionLõuna-Eesti
- RepresentativeFoundation for Science and Liberal Arts Domus Dorpatensis
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- TownDaugmale, Daugmales parish, Ķekavas municipality
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- CountryLatvia
- RegionPierīga
- RepresentativeSocial Innovation Centre
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- TownCēsis
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- CountryLatvia
- RegionVidzeme
- RepresentativeVidzeme Planning Region
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- TownGdynia
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- CountryPoland
- RegionTrójmiejski
- RepresentativeBaltic Institute for Regional Affairs BISER
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- TownGdynia
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- CountryPoland
- RegionTrójmiejski
- RepresentativeCity of Gdynia
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- TownSteinkjer
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- CountryNorway
- RegionTrøndelag
- RepresentativeTrøndelag County Authority
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- TownBremen
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- CountryGermany
- RegionBremen, Kreisfreie Stadt
- RepresentativeUniversity of Bremen
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Project manager, Communication managerJohanna LeinoThe Baltic Institute of Finland
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Financial managerLaura KarppinenThe Baltic Institute of Finland
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