IOS Community Day: Our Session with Pathways to Sustainability

On the 1st of February, Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change organised a breakout session at the IOS Community day. The session aimed to foster connections between our platform and research communities within the strategic theme Pathways to Sustainability (PtS), by focusing on bottom-up sustainability initiatives such as energy cooperatives, sustainable entrepreneurship, or food forests.

Our panel members and colleagues from PtS, Prof. Albert Meijer and Dr. Guiseppe Feola, presented various examples of 'seed' initiatives to demonstrate how citizens are currently uniting in sustainable transitions. One example is the transition from community-supported argriculture to community-supported economy. Thereafter, we collectively explored the possibilities for transformative pathways that emerge from combining these 'seeds'. 

Let us know if you have more ideas on how to bring the two strategic themes closer together! Email your idea to bottomupinitiatives@uu.nl.