Programme

Moderator: Ola Nordebo

Monday 30 november

10.30 – 12.00 UTRI is Umeå University

• Introduction by Vice Chancellor
  Hans Adolfsson
• The UTRI concept and what UTRI aims and offers
  Joacim Rocklöv, Carina Keskitalo and Kristina Lindblom
• How can UTRI help researchers raise money?
  Johanna Gardeström
• Comments on the UTRI role within the Umeå University structure
  Katrine Riklund, Dieter Müller and Hans Wiklund
• DISCUSSION
  What do we want from UTRI as a network for research on transformation towards sustainability at Umeå University?

13.00 – 13.50 What is transformation – why and for whom?

• The complexity of change
  Jon Moen
• What concepts do we use to understand transformation?
  Carina Keskitalo
• How do we understand transformation in energy use and infrastructure?
  Thomas Olofsson
• Nature and humans in the future
  Kalle Grill and Lars Samuelsson
• DISCUSSION
  What is transformation, why and for whom – and how do we understand it?

14.00 – 14.50 How do we develop transformation?

• Technology as solution? How do we create sustainable towns?
  Frank Dignum and Ana Betancour
• Health transformation and healthy cities
  Bertil Forsberg, Christoffer Boman and Magnus Evander
• Instruments for steering – within and beyond economics
  Runar Brännlund, Tommy Lundgren, Thomas Broberg and
  Göran Bostedt
• Cultural transformation
  Janina Priebe
• DISCUSSION
  How do we develop transformation?

15.10 – 16.00 How do we organise problem based interdisciplinary research for transformation?

• The Lund Pufendorf example
  Ann-Katrin Bäcklund
• What can we learn from the previous Umeå University environmental college initiative?
  Christer Nordlund
• How can UTRI and UmU researchers work together
  with the municipality, international projects and other actors in Umeå?
  Lisa Redin and Albert Edman
• DISCUSSION
  The UTRI role?

Tuesday 1 December

10.30 – 12.00 Keynotes from honorary doctors at Umeå University
– economic, ecological and social transformation in different areas

• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  Director-General of the WHO
• Michael Hall
  Professor at University of Canterbury, New Zeeland
• John Anderson
  Professor at Loughborough University, UK
• Nancy Langton
  Distinguished Professor at Michigan Technological University, USA

13.00 – 13.50 Parallel seminars and workshop
– open for submission of additional workshops until November 15, see
www.umu.se/utri

• Discussing environmental issues at multiple scales in space and time: contributions from archaeology and ecology
  Navinder Singh and Philip Buckland
• Communication for Sustainable Societies in the Anthropocene
  Annika Egan Sjölander, Emma Weitkamp, Anna Roosvall and Victoria Wibeck
  
• Is sustainable transformation about the simple life?
  Marco Eimermann, Mari Nuga and Charlotta Hedberg
• Exploring (new) pathways in education for sustainability and transformation
  Annika Manni and Helena Näs
• AI and Transformation
  Virginia Dignum
• Transition to circular and resource efficient cities
  Mats Tysklind, Runar Brännlund, Krishna Upadhyayula, Thomas Broberg and Sef Eriksson
  
• Health benefits associated with changes in the urban car fleet
  Bertil Forsberg, Anders Blomberg and Hedi Kriit
  

14.00 – 14.50 Young researcher network – towards new innovative transformation research!

• Christoffer Boman and Eleonora Borén

15.10 – 16.00 UTRI has started!
Summary of the kick-off and reflections on developing UTRI from the different Umeå University faculty steering groups

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