9b. Scale(s) of governance (to include analysis of SDGs as a global scale initiative)

Collaboration and co-creation for sustainability and SDG initiatives

Track Chairs:

Peter Dobers. School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden. peter.dobers@sh.se

Volker Mauerhofer. Meiji University, Japan. volker.mauerhofer@gmx.at

Francisco A. Comín . Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología-CSIC, Spain. comin@ipe.csic.es

Background

For actors in the Higher Education sector it has become increasingly important to collaborate and co-create with actors from other societal fields such as public sector, industry and civil society. Sustainable development, sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals are areas illustrating major societal challenge of utter importance for many actors to come together to collaborate and co-create. Partnership is of major interest to achieve SDGs from local to global scales.

One useful distinction of sccales (and their related levels) is provided by Cash et al. (2006) who introduce namely -- beside the often commonly used spatial and temporal scales -- also the jurisdictional, institutional, networks, management, and knowledge scales.

Since the 1950s, and together with technological and societal development, academic knowledge has exploded in size and the number of graduates from all levels has increased greatly. This development has created a plurality of knowledge perspectives with a potential for reflective knowledge development through meetings of unlike minds, both within and outside of academia.

Knowledge is always developed in a social and practical context (Etienne Wenger-Trayner, 2014; Wenger, 1999), which decides what is regarded as relevant and legitimate knowledge. Critical dialogue builds on respect for the experience of others.

Suggested readings include, but are not limited to: (Bason, 2010), (Ersoy, 2017), (Farmer, Hill, & Munoz, 2012), (Ramaswamy & Ozcan, 2014), (Torfing, 2016)

Goals and objectives of the track

The goal of this track is to discuss principles, programmes, key concepts, methods and applications of partnership, collaboration and co-creation between universities, public sector, industry, civil society in general, and in the field of sustainable development in particular alongside all the scales and their related levels mentioned above.

We encourage contributions that address for instance issues such as:

enablers and barriers to collaboration and co-creation between societal actors
identifying and discussing skill sets for successful collaboration and co-creation
thematic areas where collaboration and co-creation are most important
partnership for governance to achieve SDGs from local to global scales
empirical cases of collaboration and co-creation
theoretical perspectives on collaboration and co-creation
analysis of initiatives to achieve SDGs at local, regional and global scales.
identifying and discussing specific programmes to encouraging academic mobility between actors enabling collaboration and co-creation
presenting educational programmes on any or all three levels (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral) that incorporate collaboration and co-creation
presenting research methods enabling collaboration and co-creation between actors

You may submit your abstract by visiting the Ex Ordo abstract submission system (you will be required to setup an account first): http://isdrs2018.exordo.com
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2017 7 January 2018

References
Bason, C. (2010). Leading public sector innovation. Co-creating for a better society. Bristol: Policy Press.
Cash D.W., Adger W.N., Berkes F., Garden P., Lebel L., Olsson P., Pritchard L. and O. Young. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11(2): 8.
Ersoy, A. (2017). The impact of co-production. From community engagement to social justice. Bristol: Policy Press.
Etienne Wenger-Trayner, M. F.-O. C., Steven Hutchinson, Chris Kubiak, Beverly Wenger-Trayner. (2014). Learning in Landscapes of practice. Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning. London: Routledge.
Farmer, J., Hill, C., & Munoz, S.-A. (Eds.). (2012). Community co-production. Social enterprise in remote and rural communities. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Ramaswamy, V., & Ozcan, K. (2014). The co-creation paradigm. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Torfing, J. (2016). Collaborative innovation in the public sector. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press.
Wenger, E. (1999). Communities of practice. Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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