Event Description

Green Transitions:

Building transformative capacity in public sector organizations

How are public actors developing and using their organizational capacities to design and implement transformative public action towards green transitions? What combinations of resources, skills and specific roles are key for that? What capacity deficits can we identify in our public sector organizations? And what challenges and opportunities emerge? 

These are the key questions at the backbone of CAPACITOR, a research project funded by the Danish Research Council. 

The project is coming to an end, and we would like to invite you to join us at our final 1-day seminar at Copenhagen Business School.

Through a series of short and dynamic academic presentations, we will explore these questions in depth, not only presenting various research outcomes, but also engaging in open floor discussions.

Our event will also feature a panel discussion, offering insights on the project’s impact and future implications.

We wish to collaboratively explore future pathways for studies about capacity and capacity building in public sector organizations in order to accelerate green transitions.

After the seminar we will offer a dinner, to continue the discussions on a more informal setting.

Key speakers: Susana Borrás, Taran Mari Thune, Petra Wagner, Stine Haakonsson, René Taudal Poulsen, Trine Pallesen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Joana Geraldi, Lena Neij among others.

Program:

 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome coffee

Coffee and tea will be served, so we can welcome each other, while people are arriving.

9.00 – 9:15 Opening: Introduction to the seminar format

9:15-9:45 Susana Borrás

CAPACITOR research conceptual framework and main outputs:

How to study the transformative capacity of public sector organizations in green transitions

9:45- 10.15: René Taudal Poulsen

Building Transformative State Capacity in Green Industrial Policy: Enabling Sustainability Transitions in Ferry Shipping

 10:15 - 10.45: Stine Haakonsson

Islands of Green Energy transition – no island is an island

 10.45 – 11:00: Short coffee break

 11.00 - 11.25 Trine Pallesen

Intermediaries and tools of intermediation in municipal climate action: The making of emission free construction sites

 11.25 - 11.50: Rosie Collington

Transformations for all Sectors: Overcoming State Capacity Unevenness in Domestic Green Transition Strategies

 11.50 – 12.15 Olga Mikheeva

Financial bureaucracies and climate. Situating transformative capacities within financial governance domain

12:00- 12.30: Wrap up and short reflections from the morning sessions – by Silje Marie Svartefoss

12.30 - 13.45: Lunch

FUHU Faculty dining room (3rd floor, access with elevator A)

Solbjerg Plads 3

 13.45 - 14.15: Jacob Hasselbalch

From transformative capacity to planning: a new paradigm for the green state

 14.15 - 14.45: Lena Neij (Lund University)

How to understand climate transformation in urban climate governance: as identified in a city–university collaboration

 14.45 - 15.15: Petra Wagner (Austrian Institute of Technology - AIT)

Nurturing transformative capacities for food systems in policy labs

 15.15 - 15.30: Short coffee break with cake and fruit

 15.30 – 16:00: Taran Mari Thune (University Oslo)

Policy innovation for transformative change: A look at capacities in government organizations

16:00-17:00 Panel debate

Kristian Høyer Toft

Francesco Gerli

Taran Mari Thune

Joana Geraldi

Moderated by: Stine Haakonsson

17:00 - 17.30: Key take aways and future research agenda

Where do we take from here? (Everyone)

 18.00: Dinner at a nearby restaurant

Come and join us!