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We make transition!

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.1 Resilient economies and communities
Project type
Core Project
Implementation
January 2023 - December 2025
Technical details

We make transition!

In the project We make transition! public authorities work on social and ecological initiatives with civil society, and co-create changes in the areas of consumption, mobility, energy and social life.
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Webinar "What is the role of civil society in making sustainability transition?- cases from Trondheim and Tampere" on 25 April. Register here.

Project summary

Local and regional authorities have a crucial role in driving resilience – societal ability to adapt and react – but due to complexity of the ecological and social sustainability challenges, they need to mobilise all levels of society to develop and implement solutions that enable a needed change in our traditional ways of doing things. 

Various civil society actors – such as NGOs, associations, social entrepreneurs, cooperatives, communities, individuals – have an important role in helping public services to cope with external disturbances. Local authorities, however, lack efficient methods for systematic interaction with civil society actors. A key challenge is to integrate civil society actors in innovation efforts and adapt the support structures to encompass also the eco-social dimension on the side of economic dimension. 

We make transition! -project will engage a great number of regional and local authorities, civil society and other innovation actors from the Baltic Sea region to learn, pilot and adapt a so-called Transition Arena method – a strategic tool of transition management. In this project the method is adapted to co-create a transnational inclusive sustainability vision, and at local levels pathways, concrete steps and initiatives to foster sustainability transitions focusing on the role of various civil society organisations. 

Each partner region will pilot (in cooperation with local authorities) local transition arenas that will focus on various eco-social sustainability topics, such as sustainable consumption, circular and sharing economy, biodiversity, food, mobility and sustainable work. The project will raise awareness among regional and local authorities on transition management and how to utilise the elements of Transition Arena co-creation process as a tool of engaging actors from different levels of society. The project aims also to empower civil society actors and improve the understanding of their role and potential in making transitions.

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Budgets

We make transition!
in numbers.
  • 3.30
    Million
    Total
  • 2.41
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.14
    Million
    Norway

Success indicators

We make transition!
in numbers.
680 Organisations reached with 1 Solutions in offer 1 Solutionsin use 1 Pilotactivities 27 Organisationsin the project
  • 61.502046223.7628741
  • 61.502657523.763192753433394
  • 60.197289424.9282491
  • 60.451753122.2670522
  • 59.4195797524.804782850000002
  • 58.380120726.72245
  • 56.819110124.443474552107027
  • 57.313171225.2748551
  • 54.516498218.5402738
  • 54.508820418.5423992
  • 64.05073711.481908998592733
  • 53.1079645500000058.855664592828369
Lead partnerThe Baltic Institute of Finland
  • Town
    Tampere
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Pirkanmaa
Total partner budget
409,383.20
Council of Tampere Region
  • Town
    Tampere
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Pirkanmaa
Total partner budget
337,860.00
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
320,611.20
Regional Council of Southwest Finland
  • Town
    Turku
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Varsinais-Suomi
Total partner budget
331,185.60
Foundation Green Tiger
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
188,199.00
Foundation for Science and Liberal Arts Domus Dorpatensis
  • Town
    Tartu
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
282,071.40
Social Innovation Centre
  • Town
    Daugmale, Daugmales parish, Ķekavas municipality
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Pierīga
Total partner budget
245,988.80
Vidzeme Planning Region
  • Town
    Cēsis
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Vidzeme
Total partner budget
186,692.00
Baltic Institute for Regional Affairs BISER
  • Town
    Gdynia
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Trójmiejski
Total partner budget
197,828.70
City of Gdynia
  • Town
    Gdynia
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Trójmiejski
Total partner budget
177,993.70
Trøndelag County Authority
  • Town
    Steinkjer
  • Region
  • Country
    Norway
  • Region
    Trøndelag
Total partner budget
278,543.50
University of Bremen
  • Town
    Bremen
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Bremen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Total partner budget
338,184.80

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Project kickoff event was organized 9-10 March 2023
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April
What is the role of civil society in making sustainability transition? - Cases from Trondheim and Tampere
Project: We make transition!
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25. April 2023
10:00 - 12:30 (EEST)
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