Horizon Europe Project PLANET4B will hold its fourth Consortium Meeting on September 11, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Sixteen partners across Europe will gather to:
- showcase PLANET4B’s main research advances, key findings and innovative tools developed across three years of collaborative research;
- host a panel discussion with experts to discuss the legacy of PLANET4B’s research and findings and outlook for the future;
- and celebrate three years of research and partnership on the PLANET4B project during the networking event with a panoramic view over Brussels.
Agenda
08:45 – 09:15
Arrivals and registration
09:15 – 09:30
Welcome and opening remarks
09:30 – 10:30
Advancing understanding of transformations
- Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional change
- Discourses and frameworks: biodiversity, intersectionality, transdisciplinarity
10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15
Transformative change stories
- With gender, religion, ethnicity, culture, age, disabilities in focus
- In agriculture, trade, fashion, education, finance sectors
12:15 – 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 – 14:30
Engagement tools
- Online resources, MOOCs
- Catalogue of research and action methods
- Pathbreak game series
14:30 – 15:30
Expert panel discussion
Gilles Doignon, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Horizon Europe Transformative Change Cluster
Jeanne Nel, Wageningen University and Research, Transformative Change Projects TRANSPATH, BIOTraCeS, DAISY, BioAgora
Julia Leventon, CzechGlobe and PLANET4B partner, IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 1
Marco A. Janssen, Arizona State University, PLANET4B advisory board and professor in complex adaptive systems and behavioural economics
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Reflections and networking
The event will be available also via livestream (with limited interaction). The detailed information about the event and how to join is available here.
