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OECD-Workshop „Skalierung oder Einstellung von Experimenten in der WTI-Politik: Bewertungsbedarf“
Dierk contributed to the workshop “Scaling or phasing out experiments in STI policy: Assessment needs”, organised by the OECD Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy on April 22, 2024. The workshop was organised in two parts: Part 1 on scaling experiments in STI policy. Part 2 on monitoring and evaluation of experiments in STI policy. It discussed embracing a shift towards a culture of policy experimentation in government at scale by the STI policymakers and assessing and evaluating impacts of these policy experiments. Dierk provided an input to the session “Beyond the hype: When and how can sandboxes succeed in fostering breakthrough moonshot innovations?
Masterarbeit im Bereich der transdisziplinären Forschung (Formate und Methoden)
Freie Masterarbeitstelle im Bereich der transdisziplinären Forschung. Forschungsfrage: "Orientieren sich die Methodenkombinationen eher an td-Phasen, Formaten, Handlungsfeld oder Akteurskonstellation oder an gewünschten Wirkung? Sind spezifische Methodenkombinationen prägend für ein Format?"
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Teilnahme an der IST 2024 Konferenz “Sustainability Transitions and Nature”
Caterina Pacini is going to participate as presenter at the IST 24 Conference “Sustainability Transitions and Nature" taking place from the 17th to the 19th of June in Oslo.
Find further details of her contribution here.
The theme of the 15th IST conference is ‘Sustainability transitions and nature’. Sustainability transition research investigates social and technical change processes in solving environmental problems including possible social injustices, tensions, and dilemmas associated with these. The focus on the ‘social’ and the ‘technical’ often externalize the natural world treating it instead as part of the ‘landscape’ of transitions. Nature—broadly understood as the biophysical environment—thus remains an often overlooked but important dimension in the STRN research agenda.
The point of departure for sustainability transitions research is that existing production-consumption systems are environmentally unsustainable and need to transform. As such sustainability transitions therefore aim to preserve the natural environment in its current Holocene state. This simplistic understanding of the relationships between sustainability transitions and nature is increasingly becoming inadequate for understanding transition dynamics.
Beitrag zur JP ESI zweite "Research meets Policy" Konferenz
Professor Bauknecht will hold a prensentation at the Conference JP ESI 2nd "Research meets Policy", taking place on the 9th of April in Brussels and hosted by the European Energy Research Alliance.
The rapid changes in energy technology, markets and policy pose large challenges for industry and governments. Many uncertainties affect the increasingly integrated energy system. The knowledge institutions that constitute the EERA Joint Programme on Energy Systems Integration aim to support decision makers in industry and government.
While the energy transition continues to pick up speed in some areas, other parts are being delayed. At this second ‘Research Meets Policy Conference’, the morning is dedicated to the fast development of wind energy in the North Sea. How should investment security and market efficiency be balanced? How can this vast amount of energy be integrated in the onshore grids? In the afternoon, the speakers will delve into the complex interplay between technological advancements and societal implications within the energy transition. The goal of the session is to examine and find solutions to the 'Justice paradoxes' that arise when efforts to speed up the energy transition conflict with the rights and preferences of citizens.
The conference programme is designed to facilitate dialogue between policy makers, administrators and analysts supporting policy making, energy network operators, market parties and researchers.
The full programm is to find here. Dierk Bauknecht (Oeko-Institut) will contribute in the panel discussion on "Navigating Justice Paradoxes in the Energy Transition II".
Beitrag in der Zeitschrift GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Dierk Baukenct contributed to the journal GAIA in special issues 'Impacts of real-world labs in sustainability transformation'. Find the article here: "Regulatory experiments and real-world labs: A fruitful combination for sustainability" (Issues -> Volume 33 -> Supplement, 2024).
Abstract:
What are regulatory experiments and how can they contribute to sustainability transformations? We seek to answer these questions by considering regulatory experiments in the energy sector and exploring their potential impact pathways. Different kinds of regulatory experiments can be combined with real-world labs to expand their scope and their impacts to the regulatory realm.
Regulatory experiments (RegExs) can be considered an element of mission-oriented innovation policies. As such, we discuss how they relate to real-world labs (RwLs) and how they can contribute to sustainability transformations. We distinguish between two types of experiments: 1. regulatory sandboxes that help innovators to bring new products, services, and other innovations to market, and 2. regulatory-innovation experiments that are specifically designed to explore new solutions for evolving regulatory frameworks. The two types can be linked to RwLs such that an RwL can be embedded in a regulatory sandbox, enabling the RwL to try out solutions that would not be feasible without the sandbox, given the regulatory framework in place. Alternatively, the various experiments in the RwL are complemented by one or several regulatory-innovation experiments. RegExs, as a form of experimental policy engagement, are an important addition to RwL concepts in a sustainability transformation context. They contribute to both innovative sustainability solutions as well as regulatory learning and testing of regulatory innovations. By applying the programme theory approach and developing a Theory of Change for RegEx, we discuss their potential impact on sustainability transformations in terms of the directionality and the acceleration of change, based on examples from the energy sector.