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Plenary talk from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation: "Transforming the Knowledge System to Support Research Integration and Implementation."

Conference abstract: Responding to the persistent problems of unsustainability and other global challenges needs a transformation of the knowledge system as a whole. This includes a transformation in research funding and in education. For effective implementation-oriented research, stakeholders have to be involved both in the design of research programmes and in all phases of the research. This is a challenge for proposal and project evaluation. A great deal of flexibility, creativity and learning is required for implementation-oriented research, which suggests that funding of phases of research rather than for projects as a whole is more effective. Within the academic system, skills that are needed for designing and facilitating processes of engagement and learning have to receive significant attention and credit must be given for this work, so that career paths for the integration and implementation research community become established and promising. Examples of integrative, implementation-oriented, transformative research in which the knowledge system has been opened up and sustainability challenges have been tackled are presented.

Additional information: Open knowledge systems are required to deal with accelerating global change, the danger of crossing planetary boundaries, multiple and interacting pressures, as well as the consequences of partial solutions for one problem leading to pressures elsewhere. The transformative change required to deal with these earth system challenges needs cooperation and dialogue between the scientific community and all other stakeholders ie., those with relevant knowledge for contributing to solutions. This is what is meant by an open knowledge system.

Inviting stakeholders to participate in open knowledge systems:
• enhances the use and validation of local and specialised knowledge
• provides space for dialogue, communication and learning
• supports common framing of issues
• improves the legitimacy of processes
• supports “buy-in”
• improves understanding of the socio-ecological system.

Open knowledge systems require:
• broad collaboration, transdisciplinary knowledge integration and understanding
• an orientation to implementation, with decisive changes in individual behaviours and collective values
• a systemic open approach
• new criteria and procedures for assessing scientific excellence and societal impact.

Moving to open knowledge systems requires:
• recognition that projects need time and that it might be best to fund them in phases
• new skills eg., facilitation, mediation, systems thinking
• researchers to become part of the process
• open (not pre-defined) outcomes
• “excellence” to be measured in the success of the process design and implementation (rather than the number of peer-reviewed papers)
• experimentation and learning.

Four cases of integrative, implementation-oriented, transformative research in which the knowledge system has been opened up and sustainability challenges have been tackled are briefly presented. They are:
• RESPONDER project
• InContext project
• MATISSE project
• Project Vision RD4SD.

The Microsoft PowerPoint presentation used in the video is available as a PDF at: https://i2s.anu.edu.au/wp-content/upl... (PDF 814KB).

Speaker biography: Dr. Jill Jaeger is an independent scholar and senior researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI). She graduated with a PhD in Geography (Climatology) from the University of Colorado in 1974. In 1987 Dr. Jaeger became Project Leader at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden, and in 1991 she became Director of the Climate Policy Division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany. At the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, she was Deputy Director from 1994-1998. Dr. Jaeger was Executive Director of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) from 1999 until 2002. She joined the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Austria, in 2004. In addition to contributing numerous scientific publications in books and scientific journals, she has participated in a range of research projects and environmental assessments. Her main interest is in the linking of knowledge and action for transitions to sustainability.

Introduced by Deborah O'Connell.

The First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation was held in Canberra in Australia, online and at three co-conferences (Lueneburg in Germany, The Hague in the Netherlands and Montevideo in Uruguay), 8-11 September 2013.