In the following please find examples for how to concretely harness RD4SD. We present them here to jointly get a better idea about research for sustainable development and proper ways of funding and supporting RD4SD. The purpose of these examples is an illustration only (not a definition) of the many different approaches in the member states of the EU. Together they show the larger landscape of RD4SD in Europe as it is now and as it could be in the years to come. The examples feed into the dialogue process within VISION RD4SD especially into the pathways workshops.

We will add on to them in the course of the project. If you have a good example yourself, you are most welcome to contact us or directly fill in this template Template for Examples VISION RD4SD 2012

Each example illustrates an approach or a solution for an RD4SD funding challenge in one of the following categories:

Programme level

• Programme design
• Programme management

Linking research to implementation (knowledge - action)

• Improving stakeholder integration
• Involvement of intermediaries and interface organisations
• Decision support / response coordination
• Frame-working innovation

Science System

• Changes / reforms
• Setting incentives

Below you find a first collection of examples for download:

Circle-2 ERA-Net: Climate Impact Research &
Response Coordination for a larger Europe Circle 2 ERA-Net

“Clustering” projects within the Science for a
Sustainable Development Programme Clustering

CoCE - Involving an NGO as an Intermediary
and a Partner for Continuation COCE

KALME - Steps towards transdisciplinary Kalme

Living with Environmental Change: “Co-design – Co-production – Co-delivery” LWEC

SÖF – Socio-ecological Research: New methods and instruments for RD4SD programme management SÖF

td-award - Swiss-academies award for
transdisciplinary research TD Award

Top-Climate Science - New approaches for linking RD4SD with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Top Climate Science