Find here short summary of the FES session discussions at the ACCC Impact Week
Sustainability pathways are a broad research field and therefore the development of a national network is particularly important. There is still a need to develop information flow at the national level. Finland lacks structured frameworks for cross-disciplinary sustainability research. Based on the feedback from the FES session, INAR UH as chair of FES, will soon update the website and improve the communication of information about the research networks of the international Future Earth organization and the opportunities they offer to Finnish researchers. Discussions also addressed FES’s cross-disciplinary nature and how it differs from discipline-specific national committees. Suggestions included potentially re-naming FES, clarifying its role as a contact point for international networks in this field. Although FES’s activities are directly linked to the international Future Earth organization, it would be useful to further examine its role and connections with other international sustainability science networks. Funding is central to the development and maintenance of all activities. More funding is needed for FES and other national sustainability networks and activities, such as the “Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education pilot”, funding should be sought and exploring also EU and other funding opportunities for co-designed sustainability initiatives.
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