Team members from the different consortium members met in Utrecht during the Global Goals 2024 conference on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Magdalena Bexell, Maximilian Wanner, Cornelia Fast and Montserrat Koloffon Rosas presented their research and engaged with the global sustainability governance community.

In the upcoming special issue of the journal International Environmental Agreements called Synergies, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy of Multistakeholder Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals, researchers will critically examine the effectiveness and legitimacy of partnerships and if and how they can facilitate synergies across SDGs to accelerate transformative shifts toward sustainability to implement the 2030 Agenda.

Our very Karin Bäckstrand, Magdalena Bexell, Faradj Koliev, Oscar Widerberg, and Philipp Pattberg will be editors for the special issue.

More information on the news page.

Several project members will present at a virtual side event on Shaping a Resilient Future for People and the Planet: Transforming Landscapes, Lives, and Livelihoods through Multi-stakeholder Partnerships on Tuesday, January 30, 8:30 – 10:00 am EST (14:30 – 16:00 Amsterdam/Stockholm time). 

Registration necessary!

In October, the team met in Amsterdam for a project meeting, just before traveling together to the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Sustainability Forum will gather at Stockholm University some of Sweden’s most prominent minds in the fields of political science, international law, global health, philosophy, and many more.

Don't miss the keynote by Åsa Persson (Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and one of the authors of the Global Sustainable Development Reports 2023) and the following panel discussion on achieving the SDGs with among others Prof. Karin Bäckstrand.

Registration closes today!

Project members of the Transformative Partnerships 2030 research project met in Lund, Sweden, for its first of two planned annual meetings on June 8 and 9, 2023.

The technical report of the Transformative Partnerships 2030 was successfully launched at a hybrid event hosted by Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI) on May 11. Click through for video of the full event and a news report on some of the main findings.

On May 11, the Transformative Partnerships 2030 research project will launch its technical report that sheds light on multi-stakeholder partnerships’ potential to facilitate implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Register to attend the event in-person or online!

On Thursday March 30th 2023, PhD Candidate of the Transformative Partnerships 2030 project, Montserrat Koloffon participated as a speaker in the side-event "Multi-level acceleration for the SDGs in the UNECE region", hosted by the GlobalGoals project.

On January 31st 2023, Dr. Oscar Widerberg participated as a speaker in the virtual side-event Supporting SDG policy and budget decisions backed by science and expertise, hosted by Stockholm Environmental Institute, during the 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum on January 31st 2023. 

The research team of Transformative Partnerships 2030 met at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm on May 30-31, 2022, for the project’s first physical bi-annual meeting. At the meeting, at which all members – from Stockholm, Lund, and Amsterdam – took part, members discussed ongoing and future work.