Research projects
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Just Grow Project: Co-designing justice-centric indicators and governance principles to intensify urban agriculture sustainably and equitably
The JUST GROW project aims to achieve sustainable urban food systems through justice and equity in urban agricultural intensification. Radboud University will develop methods for land access and labor justice.
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Infrastructuring Nature as Border Technique. How (Supra-)States Intensify Displacement Through Inhospitable Landscapes
Dit onderzoeksproject richt zich op het bredere gebied van gedwongen migratie, waarbij de relatie tussen natuur, grensregimes en de verplaatsing van ontheemde bevolkingsgroepen wordt onderzocht.
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PLANET4B: understanding Plural values, intersectionality, Leverage points, Attitudes, Norms, behaviour and social lEarning in Transformation for Biodiversity decision making
The PLANET4B Horizon Europe research project aims to understand and influence decision making affecting biodiversity.
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COPPER: Creating, Optimizing and Planning Positive EneRgy districts while connecting citizens’ energy at different geographical levels
The COPPER project develops and optimises strategic spatial energy planning in cooperation with neighbourhood communities in Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.
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Living Lab B7: working with Farmers, Residents, Visitors and Policymakers on a Better Biodiversity in the Bulb Region
With Living Lab B7, Farmers, Residents, Visitors and Policymakers are working on a Better Biodiversity in the Bulb Region.
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EXPLORE. EXPerimentaL gOvernance for the Regional Energy transition
Project EXPLORE includes novel insights into the performance of participation and governance models, the potential role of participatory modelling in regional energy transitions and in real-life experiments.
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Global Strategy for Skills, Migration, and Development (GS4S)
GS4S seeks to better understand global skills shortages in selected sectors and strengthens evidence-based policies through new evidence on various overlooked global mobility schemes.
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Achieving High-Integrity Voluntary Climate Action (ACHIEVE)
The ACHIEVE research project will identify opportunities to strenghten and scale up voluntary climate action, to achieve a worldwide net-zero society by 2050.
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VIA Participatietraject Nijmegen (VIA participation process)
This project sought to understand how the VIA participation process in the Municipality of Nijmegen contributes to higher levels or participation in society through work, both voluntary and paid.
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GAPs
What are the trajectories, infrastructures, and diplomacies that shape the EU’s governance of return migration? What are the effects and human rights costs of this return governance?
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Transgressing ‘good’ cities
The project will investigate the implications of colonial legacies in (re)defining people’s experience and engagement of public spaces.
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JUST-PREPARE
The research project investigates the social, technical and societal dimensions of a just and effective energy transition, from carbon-based to renewable energy practices.
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KLIMAP
The aim of the project is to develop tangible ways in which to transition to climate resilient management of soil and water within agriculture and natural areas in the sandy areas of the Netherlands.
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C-LIMES: Constructing the Limes
In this project, we not only investigate the impact of this border on migration and the import of goods and crops in antiquity, but also focus on how the limes becomes visible as cultural heritage today.
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21st Century Borders
Debates continue about how to theorize the changing nature of borders in a globalizing world. Concepts such as ‘the vacillating border,’ ‘mobile’ borders or ‘borders in motion’ have been predominant.
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Infrastructuring Libraries in Transformation (ILIT)
ILIT examines how public libraries in Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands as socio-cultural infrastructures address systemic challenges in rapidly transforming societies.
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Moving MarketPlaces (MMP)
The Moving MarketPlaces (MMP) project investigates the role of ambulant traders in the everyday production of inclusive public spaces in Europe.
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BENIGN: BluE and greeN Infrastructure desiGned to beat the urbaN heat
BENIGN aims to investigate how blue and green infrastructure can be employed in urban areas to create healthy living conditions.
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Resilient Indonesian Slums Envisioned (RISE)
To help slums in Indonesia become more resilient to the threat of water-related disasters, social scientists at the RISE project develop inclusive solutions on the basis of research into social-ecological interactions
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Migrants in the Front Line
An interdisciplinary team is examining both the effects that coronavirus measures are having on migrant workers who work in key sectors and the opportunities that the coronavirus crisis has offered for improving the protection of migrant workers.