Open Learning Series

Transformative Innovation in Health: Rethinking Cancer Control

How can comprehensive cancer control be reimagined through the voices of patients, families and caregivers? About this event What does it actually take to transform a conventional health system—and how can the lived experiences of patients, families and caregivers move...

Instrumentos de políticas de innovación transformativa aplicados en la consolidación de Medellín como Distrito de Cti

Transformative innovation policy instruments applied in the consolidation of Medellín as a Science, Technology and Innovation District Speakers:Durys Esther Ríos Kerguelén – Director of Innovation and Technical Development, CTA Martha Liliana Marín Montoya – Innovation Leader, CTA Carolina Salazar López...

Transformative Outcomes in Action: The Net Zero Precinct Living Lab

Transformative Outcomes in Action: The Net Zero Precinct Living LabReflexive monitoring and transition governance at precinct scaleDate & Time 7:30–8:30pm Tuesday 10th March(Melbourne time) / 8:30-9:30 am (UK time)Event DescriptionWhat does it actually take to govern a net zero transition...

Innovación Transformativa en salud

Transformative Innovation in Health:How can comprehensive cancer control be rethought through the experience of patients, relatives and caregivers?Speakers:Ana Milena Osorio García – Researcher, Latin American and Caribbean Transformative Innovation HubÁlvaro Quintero Posada – Technical Director of the Research, Development and...

Más allá de la movilidad: La estación como nodo de transformación urbana

Join us on 25 February for the first webinar in the 4-part series hosted by the HUB Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Innovación Transformativa This session explores the case of the San Miguelito Cable Car as an example of how mobility...

Tackling youth involvement in crime with transformative innovation

Insights from a year-long study on cross-sector collaboration tackling youth crime recruitment in Sweden About this event Join us for an exploration of how transformative innovation policy (TIP) can be employed to support cross-sectoral collaboration in addressing one of society’s...

Seeds of the Future: Creating pathways to a better world

Explore complex sustainability challenges through an interactive game that turns ideas into action. About this event Addressing the social and environmental challenges of our time means confronting the type of future we want to build. The future is not predetermined...

Accelerating Sustainable Transformations: Network Launch for UN ECE Transformative Innovation Charter

In an era marked by interlocking crises and accelerating complexity, public and private institutions must evolve to support cross-sectoral action for sustained momentum and shared value. How do we foster radical collaboration for a resilient future, powered by shared learning...

Rethinking systems: A New Lens for Policy and Investment

Addressing today’s social and environmental challenges demands a fresh perspective on the systems that shape our everyday lives – energy, transport, food, healthcare. To be transformative, investments and policies must go beyond technological solutions to tackle the intricate networks of...

UNECE RFSD Side Event: Transformative Innovation for Regional Challenges

Join this open event, which has been organised by TIPC as a side event for the UNECE RFSD 2025, through the Consortium's collaboration with the UN-ECE Transformative Innovation Network, and in partnership with the JRC European Commission, Government of Catalonia,...

Breaking Entrenched Structures: Alternative Frames for Transformative Outcomes in Decolonising Urban Sustainability Practice and Research

This Open Learning Series session took place on 5 December 2024. You can watch the recording by clicking on the...Read More

Capacities and Capabilities for Transformative Missions

This Open Learning Series session took place on 23 April 2024. You can watch the recording by clicking on the video below. [embed]https://youtu.be/q-PbfX3YD_M?si=JXXaCg-YU5X6QVcT[/embed] Date and time Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:00 - 12:30 CEST Location TIPC's Open Learning Series brings...

The Transformative Potential of Higher Education: ‘Climate Justice Universities’

Reflections to Apply System Thinking Tools Responsibly Through Time/Space

This session will share the use of systems thinking methodologies developed by the Transformative Innovative Policy Consortium - particularly the MOTION Transformative Theory of Change Tool, a co-creation exercise that can be used to collectively reflect upon how an initiative can...

Systemic change in the Global South: Working with Transformative Outcomes

How do we assess and reorientate system change? Join us for a comprehensive exploration of the seminal Transformative Innovation Policy concept of 'Transformative Outcomes', a guiding framework for practitioners involved in enhancing systemic change initiatives....Read More

Financing Sustainability Transitions: Lessons from System Mapping Exercises

In this session, Rob Byrne (Senior Lecturer at SPRU) will provide an introduction to some of the foundational transitions principles addressed by the tool. We will learn from Manuel Laranja (Associate Professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management - ISEG,...

Contestation: Harnessing Tensions as Windows of Opportunity for Transitions

Contestation lies at the very core of experimentation for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). Recent conceptual development of the multi-level perspective for analysing socio-technical transitions to sustainability suggests that contestation is experienced by actors as ‘tensions’, and that these create windows...

Co-Creation for Policy: Multi-Action Agency Enabling Transformation Processes

Co-creation for policy with a wide range of actors – including governments, civil society and business at all levels – is essential for building the capacity to act in complex and uncertain circumstances....Read More

Shared Agendas in Catalonia: Collective Action for Transformation

In this session, we will hear about work between TIPC researchers, the Government of Catalonia and other locals stakeholders to support the development of a framework for 'Shared Agendas' that addresses complex societal challenges, promotes sustainability, and fosters inclusivity, encouraging...

Building Bridges Across Government to Achieve Transformative Change

An experimental session with TIPC and One Team Gov to explore the liminal spaces between formal and informal change. About this event This is a bridging event, bringing together people working in government and other agents of transition for shared...

Innovation Portfolios: A Practical Approach for Transformative Innovation

How can projects, programs and other initiatives assess their contribution to transformation, before, during and after their lifespan? About this event Tackling the climate crisis requires transformative system change – a fundamental shift to place sustainability at the core of...

Transformative Outcomes: Practical Tools to Empower and Scale System Change

How can projects, programmes and policies orientated towards system change be made more transformative? ‘The world seems to agree that to address the SDGs, we need to focus on transformative change. The big question is how? The Transformative Outcomes, while...

How Do Transitions Happen and Can We Steer Them?

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Imagining Better Futures for People and the Planet

Imagining better futures for people and the planet Imaginando mejores futuros para las personas y el planeta Theoretical Foundations In partnership with Ingenio CSIC-UPV Postgraduate Diploma on Innovation for Social and Environmental Transformation and Las Naves Watch the recording 

Advancing Transformative Innovation Policy in Latin American: Implications for Public Policy workshop

Advancing Transformative Innovation Policy in Latin American: Implications for Public Policy workshop / Introducción a Innovación Transformativa e Implicaciones para la Política Publica en America Latina Theoretical Foundations Report and recording 

A Formative Approach to the Evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies

A Theoretical Foundations session within TIPC’s Open Learning Series, open to STI funders, analysts, researchers, and policy makers. Transformative Innovation Policies (TIPs) assert that addressing the key challenges currently facing our societies requires profound changes in current socio-technical systems. To...

From Moonshots to Transformations: A new generation of Transformative ‘Mission-oriented’ Innovation Policies

This session will be delivered in English with live Spanish interpretation In recent years, the idea that innovation should contribute to the solution of grand societal challenges such as climate change has become almost consensual in academic and policy circles....

Playing your way into transformative system change: A gamification approach to socio-technical systems

This event is part of TIPC’s Open Learning Series. It is an interactive workshop and places are limited.  If you cannot attend after booking, please cancel to allow another participant to take up the place. One of the key starting...

Theories of Change for Transformative Innovation Policy

A Theoretical Foundations session within TIPC’s Open Learning Series, open to STI funders, analysts, researchers, and policy makers. Watch the recording  About this event In this session, we will revisit the Transformative Innovation Policy principles, focusing on the Multi-Level Perspective...