Lars Coenen

🚨 CfA – PhD & Early Career Workshop 2026
Regional Inequalities & Perceived Left-Behindness (w @regstud.bsky.social, Young Scholar Initiative & Edgenet)

📅 11–13/05 2026 | 📍 L’Aquila, Italy
Keynote speakers: @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @simonaiammarino.bsky.social @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social

Deadline Dec 22nd!
@antipodeonline.bsky.social @plaasuwc.bsky.social @rethinkingmarxism.bsky.social #geosky #ipesky @sasemeeting.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social

It is easy to #green an old model; it is much harder to admit the model is broken. Sedita, @larscoenen.bsky.social & @dfkogler.bsky.social argue in @regionalstudies.bsky.social for a fundamental rethinking the policy scaffolding. #Innovation must serve a #sustainable future. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Propose a session track or special session for #IST26 in Zürich (31 Aug–2 Sep 2026)!

Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”

🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...

Sign the Petition | Amirhossein Hosseinikangani Monash is proposing to disestablish the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI). https://lnkd.in/eAC2CGZ2 This comes from a place of love. I was one of the lucky students who got to do my inte...

www.linkedin.com/posts/amirho... @transitionsnetwork.bsky.social

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

A terrific accolade that research excellence and impact can go hand-in-hand. Congratulations!

📣 Save the date! On 8-10 Apr 2026 the inaugural “BeNeLux Geography” conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium. The Belgian, Dutch and Luxembug geographical community join forces to organize an international geography conference. Check the website, sign up for the Newsletter!
.
www.benelux-geo.eu

Call for papers for our special issue: 'From knowledge-intensive to transformative knowledge regions'. For more, contact, special issue editors: @annabutzin.bsky.social; @carvalho-luis.bsky.social; Hugues Jeannerat. & Jesper Manniche think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Abstracts: 15th May

Beyond Oil 2025: Changing Climate Futures CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Send your abstracts before March 28. Welcome to the sixth edition of the Beyond Oil Conference. Join us in Bergen on the 22nd and 23rd of October 2025.

📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 📢
Beyond Oil: Changing Climate Futures
⛰️ Bergen, 22 - 23 October, 2025.

Join us in a collective reckoning of the present, informed by the past, and intent on shaping transformative climate and energy futures.

📆 CFA deadline: March 28th
More info 👉 www.uib.no/en/cet/17307...

‼️Deadline approaching‼️
Join us in Bergen in October for the Beyond Oil: Changing Climate Futures conference.

Interdisciplinary conference discussing "Is society moving inevitably beyond oil?"

Send your abstract (200-300 words) by Friday March 28th!

Finally! Kudos to AP and Sigrun Aasland.

If we wouldn't see this happening right now, we wouldn't believe this. A massive blow to the #innovation studies community. #GeoInnoSky

UKRI’s economic mission is built on a delusion - Research Professional News If British innovation could drive British growth, it would have already happened, says David Edgerton

I've written an op-ed on innovation and economic growth for Research Fortnight (open access) arguing we need radical innovation in innovation policy centred on evidence-based policy. Shouldn't need saying but ... www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Ping @iamsubina.bsky.social

Congrats @marjahelena.bsky.social and @paulakivimaa.bsky.social!

PhD Research Fellow in Digital and Green Resilience in European Labour markets (275072) | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Digital and Green Resilience in European Labour markets (275072), Employer: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Deadline: Sunday, March 23, 2025

Dead line extended to 23rd of March! If you are interested on how the twin transition affects the European labour markets check out the following PhD position connected to #SkillResilience4EU project at #HVL Bergen, Norway! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Geography of Sustainability Transitions on LinkedIn: #sustainabilitytransitions #geost #economicgeography #naturesociety 📢 GeoST Webinar Series 2025: Nature-Society Interactions We invite you to a new webinar series exploring nature-society interactions in the geography of…

You are all warmly invited to join us discussing conceptual inroads and potential synergies with neighbouring disciplines on the matter of nature-society interactions in the wider realm of geographies of sustainability transition. Great pleasure organising this with @markussteen.bsky.social & C Binz

Mission-oriented #innovation promises grand solutions, yet too often ignores geography.
As @elvirauyarra.bsky.social, @larscoenen.bsky.social et al. stress, innovation isn’t placeless; it’s shaped by local #institutions.
A spatially blind approach risks failure & exclusion.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...

Guest lectures by Bernhard Truffer, Lea Funfschilling, @teis.bsky.social, @havardhaarstad.bsky.social, @mariatsouri.bsky.social and Svein Gunnar Sjøtun and ample of time to present and discuss your own work.

Sustainability Transitions and Innovation - NORSI Fundamental transitions within societal sectors such as energy, transport, water and food are required to cope with sustainability challenges that are

Very pleased to announce we are running our PhD course Innovation and Sustainability Transitions May 12-16th again here at HVL in Bergen. Application deadline 31th of March. norsi.no/course/susta...

Great topic, great place: very interesting PhD position!

Exploring the Economic Geographies of Sustainability Transitions: Commentary and Agenda This commentary provides a short review of the history and current state of transition studies, and explores how a deepened exchange with economic geographers could be fostered at the geography of ...

This piece has been in the works for some time but now finally published in Economic Geography.

w. Christian Binz (lead), @kfrenken.bsky.social, James Murphy, Simone Strambach, Michaela Trippl & Bernhard Truffer.

Comments welcome!

doi.org/10.1080/0013...

A real delight to visit Utrecht and catch-up with friends and colleagues!

It builds on a collaboration with: Università degli Studi di Verona, University of Copenhagen, University of Limerick and the Seafood Innovation Cluster, Norway.

Deadline for applications: 15th of April.

We are looking for a postdoc to work with us in the research project AQUABALANCE - Balancing economic, environmental, and social sustainability in the European aquaculture industry. The project is funded through the call ‘Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP).

Interested in fishy transitions? Look no further: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

@hvl_no

Those pics are so emblematic of our truly nice and stimulating event.