Past Events
STRN regularly hosts and supports numerous events for the transitions’ community. Click here for a list of previous IST conferences.
See here for past PhD Methods’ Schools on Sustainability Transitions and Introduction to Sustainability Transitions PhD Schools.
The Network for early career researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) organizes an annual conference with the support of STRN.
NEST in Dresden 2023
16 January 2026
Call for Abstracts – 4th Workshop of the Thematic Group on ‘Multi-system Dynamics’ in Sustainability Transitions After three successful workshops in Oslo (2023), Gothenburg (2024), and Winterthur (2025), we are happy to announce that the […]
14 May 2025
We are pleased to share the final agenda of the 10th Annual NEST Conference 2025, which will be held at SPRU in Brighton later this month. Please check here to see the full list of participants, speakers, […]
17 April 2025
Attention all STRN ECRs and PhD candidates: Funding support for educational research upskilling and capacity building, 2025-2026: The Education and Learning in Sustainability Transitions thematic group is delighted to offer funding support to emerging scholars in […]
26 March 2025
To support a more inclusive and globally diverse IST 2025 conference, STRN, in close collaboration with the local IST organizers, is offering needs-based financial support to early career researchers from around the world. We are […]
17 March 2025
On March 6-7, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) hosted the 3rd International Workshop on Multi-System Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions in Winterthur, Switzerland. Organized by Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer and Jochen Markard, the workshop was […]
7 March 2025
On behalf of the “Building Capacity for Sustainable Development” seminar series, we are pleased to share an invitation to their next session on Wednesday, March 12. This seminar will focus on the critical question of […]
19 February 2025
The 3rd International Workshop on Multi-System Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions will take place on March 6-7, 2025, at ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) in Winterthur, Switzerland. This workshop builds on previous MSI events and […]
13 January 2025
We are excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the 16th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference is officially open! The conference will take place from June 24 to June 26, 2025, in Lisbon, […]
4 October 2024
The Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) is excited to announce that our annual conference will be held next year at the University of Sussex on May 29th and 30th. This will […]
23 September 2024
The NEST/STRN methodology school took place from July 8th to July 12th, 2024, at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, hosted by the Design Impact Transition (DIT) Platform and the Dutch Research Institute for […]
23 September 2024
This year, the NEST conference was organised in a hub format and took place across three continents with 100+ participants. What follows are reports from each of the three hubs: The African Regional Hub was […]
17 September 2024
We are happy to announce the September appointment of the NEST webinar series. Assistant Prof. Bjarne Steffen of ETH Zürich will speak on “The role of finance in sustainability transitions: Empirical insights and levers for […]
21 August 2024
APPLY NOW – STRN PhD School “Systems, Theories, Policies and Practices: An Introductory PhD Course in Sustainability Transitions Research” Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden February 3-7, 2025 We’re extremely happy to announce the […]
13 May 2024
Save-the-date! STRN PhD School “Systems, Theories, Policies and Practices: An Introductory PhD Course in Sustainability Transitions Research” Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden February 3-7, 2025 We are extremely excited to announce that the first […]
7 May 2024
We are happy to announce the May appointment of the NEST webinar series. Assistant Prof. Katharina Hölscher of Utrecht University will speak on Transformative urban governance and governance capacities. The session will take place on Thursday, 16th […]
4 March 2024
The application to this year’s STRN/NEST Method School under the theme “Transformative Research Unlocked,” hosted by the Design Impact Transition (DIT) Platform and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), is officially open. Guided by […]
16 January 2024
Call for abstract to IST 2024 in Oslo We hereby invite the research community to submit abstracts to the 15th International Sustainability Transitions conference to be held in Oslo, Norway from June 16th to 20th […]
9 January 2024
9th NEST Conference 2024 – Save the Date! Mark your calendars for next year’s 9th NEST Conference on September 6-7, hosted by Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Digitalization & Sustainability […]
1 December 2023
Transformative Research Unlocked – Summer School on methods for researching sustainability transitions. Mark your calendars for the 2024 STRN/NEST Method School: “Transformative Research Unlocked,” to take place from July 8th to 12th in Rotterdam. Join us on a […]
31 October 2023
IST 2024 – Call for proposals for tracks and sessions The 15th International Sustainability Transitions conference will be organised at the University of Oslo on the 17th to 19th of June in 2024. The theme […]
25 September 2023
14th IST Conference 2023 – Best Paper Award Winner: Improving Discursive Approaches to Sustainability Transition Studies: Elaborating Discourse Network Analysis By Kimberley Vandenhole, Kristijan Garic, Philip Leifeld The paper applies discourse network analysis as […]
3 August 2023
OPEN CALL Inviting expressions of interest to host the International Sustainability Transitions Conference (2025 and 2026) The STRN steering group and board invite expressions of interest to host the International Sustainability Transitions conference (IST) for […]
20 April 2023
Save the Date! The 15th IST Conference will take place in Oslo, from June 17th to June 19th, 2024. More details will follow!
27 February 2023
The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) jointly invite PhD students and early career researchers to the 2023 STRN/NEST School on Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability […]
9 January 2023
14th IST Conference 2023 Responsibility and reflexivity in transitions Utrecht, The Netherlands August 30th – September 1st, 2023 August 29th – Early-career researcher day We are excited to announce the 14th annual International Sustainability Transitions conference organized […]
30 September 2022
14th IST Conference, Utrecht, NL August 30 – September 1, 2023 While we eagerly await the IST 2022 edition, we are happy to announce that the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST) will be hosted […]
7 March 2022
IST 2022, Nov 21-25: Sustainability Transitions in a Global Context – Extension of submission deadline Important – The submission deadline for the IST 2022 conference has been extended to May 15th 2022 With this Call for […]
5 March 2022
We have many exiting webinars coming up this year and a new co-organizer.A warm welcome to the team, Nur! These were the webinars we hosted in Spring 2022 with March 31 – Saurabh Arora: Decolonizing […]
28 February 2022
Topic: Mixed Methods Application Deadline: March 25 !! The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN) and Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) jointly invite PhD students and early career researchers to the 2022 […]
7 December 2021
We are excited to announce that the 7th NEST Conference will take place in Lyon, France! Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2022 Conference website Call for abstracts The conference will be held under the theme […]
8 September 2021
This webinar will be held on Aug. 5th, 14:00-15:30 CET. 22:00 Sydney | 20:00 Manila | 17:30 New Delhi 13:00 Johannesburg | 9:00 São Paulo | 7:00 Mexico City Please fill out the registration form […]
8 September 2021
“Mainstreaming sustainability transitions: From research towards impact” With the call for IST 2021 – “Mainstreaming sustainability transitions: From research towards impact” we invite reflection on how we, as a research community, can make sure that […]
8 September 2021
The 6th NEST Conference is taking place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 8-9, 2021! Let’s expand transition mind-sets to diverse pathways to sustainability not only in terms of geographical scope but also enabling actors, measures, institutions, approaches and much more. This conference […]