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EuroREGEN will undertake a comparative analysis of how transnational networks of autonomous initiatives working at the scale of the local community (Community-Led Initiatives or CLIs) in Europe mobilize within and across national borders and engage public institutions in order to promote favourable institutional environments for regenerative development.
This project has two goals:
1) Compare and contrast approaches to framing members’ demands, coalition-building and policy advocacy by the European hubs of the three major networks that promote a regenerative approach to development: Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Transition Network (TN) and the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS).
2) Understand how the results of such processes are transposed to member CLIs
Case study selection was based on comparison of the strategic foci of these networks. GEN and TN promote bioregional approaches to regenerative transition, aligning human activities with ecological limits by making productive activities sensitive to resource limits and ecologically enriching. They do this by applying permaculture design relocalization of production and consumption and promotion of circular economies. Both networks have track records promoting horizontal diffusion of knowledge, technology and best practices among members and engaging policy actors at all levels from local to EU. The membership of GEN in Europe consists predominantly of intentional communities, while that of TN is mainly pre-existing communities of place (urban, peri-urban and rural neighbourhoods) that engage municipalities in community-led plans for sustainability transition. RIPESS promotes economic democracy, ecological regeneration and territorial resilience by furthering the practice and institutional recognition of economic self-organisation based on commons and cooperativism. It promotes horizontal diffusion of knowledge and best practices through virtual working groups and physical meetings that aim to common action frames. GEN and TN are (since 2014) founding members of the European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability (ECOLISE), which provides a common platform for networking, collaboration, research, learning and policy advocacy. RIPESS has been collaborating with ECOLISE since 2018.
This project will gather data through: archival research and document analysis, interviews with key actors, network-wide surveys, participant observation at meetings and events, and case study research on local-regional initiatives in three countries. It aims to develop a theory of political processes in the field of regenerative development and to bridge academia, practice and policy making through both participatory research methods and outputs targeted at multiple audiences.
O objetivo é teorizar sobre processos políticos na área do desenvolvimento regenerativo, assim como diminuir a distância entre a academia, a prática e as políticas públicas através de outputs dirigidos a estes públicos.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEI-Iscte | Economy and Globalization | Coordinator | 2021-02-01 | 2025-01-31 |
| CIS-Iscte | Community, Education and Development | Partner | 2021-02-01 | 2024-01-31 |
| Institution | Country | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra (CES-UC) | Portugal | Partner | 2021-02-01 | 2024-01-31 |
| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Esteves | Integrated Researcher (CEI-Iscte); | PI | 2021-02-01 | 2025-01-31 |
| Maria Fernandes-Jesus | Associate Researcher (CIS-Iscte); | Co-PI | 2021-02-01 | 2024-01-31 |
| Amandine Gameiro | PhD Scholar (CEI-Iscte); | Research Assistant | 2021-02-01 | 2025-01-31 |
| Reference/Code | Funding DOI | Funding Type | Funding Program | Funding Amount (Global) | Funding Amount (Local) | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTDC/SOC-SOC/2061/2020 | -- | Contract | FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - Projetos de investigação científica e desenvolvimento tecnológico (IC&DT) - Portugal | 234672,38 | 231422,38 | 2021-02-01 | 2024-01-31 |
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