Programme

14.45-16.45 : AIRE Seminar with Tom Dedeurwaerdere (UC Louvain)

Governing collective action challenges in transformational sustainability science

With Tom Dedeurwaerdere (UC Louvain)

The conference will address the collaborative governance of knowledge co‐production in transformational sustainability research. First, we will present an innovative theoretical framework for successfully navigating collective action challenges in boundary‐crossing research collaborations, based on insights from the literature on the governance of knowledge commons. This framework aims to address various types of collective action failures encountered in building partnerships between scientific researchers and societal actors involved in value‐laden and multifaceted sustainability transformations. Second, the framework will be illustrated through various mechanisms for organizing research co‐design and social learning on sustainability values in transdisciplinary research collaborations

Speaker : 

Tom Dedeurwaerdere is research professor in theory of governance and philosophy of science at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). His main fields of research are the organization of scientific research commons and collective action for sustainability transformations. 

He recently published two books at Routledge on these issues, one dealing with social innovation (Social Innovation in the Service of Social and Ecological Transformation. The Rise of the Enabling State, 2022) and a second with the organization of transformational sustainability research (Transdisciplinary Research, Sustainability and Social Transformation: Governance and Knowledge Co-production, 2024).

Coffee break

17.00-18.00 : AIRE Award for Environmental Student Research - Prize ceremony and reception

We are pleased to invite you to the 2023-2024 AIRE Award for Environmental Student Research ceremony on 10 October. The aim of this initiative is to recognise and publicise the best master's thesis from all Sciences Po schools, and to encourage students to embark on this path during their studies.

The jury was chaired by Richard BALME (CEE), and comprised Sarah GENSBURGER (CSO), Charlotte HALPERN (CEE), Carola KLOECK (CERI), Paul MALLIET (OFCE), Alain POTTAGE (Law School Research Center) and Bernard REBER (CEVIPOF). 23 candidates applied for the prize.

The winners of this second edition, recognizing three research projects, are :

• 1st prize : Justine Banegas (Research school, Master in political science), for her master thesis "Réclamer justice, réparer le péyi. Mobilisations antillaises et usages militants du droit face au scandale du chlordécone de la Martinique à l’Île-de-France".
• 2nd prize : Sophia Noël (Research school, Master in sociology), for her master thesis "The Effect of Heat on Fertility Rates in France".
• 3rd prize : Chloé Ten Brink (PSIA, Master in Environmental Policy), for her master thesis "A question of protection: justice considerations in planned relocation".