We make transition! - Social Innovation in Interreg

	We make transition! – Fostering sustainable and resilient societies: We make transition! is an Interreg Baltic Sea Region project promoting sustainable and resilient societies by empowering civil society, local authorities and small businesses to co-create eco-social solutions across the region. Using the Transition Arena participatory methodology, partners facilitate collaborative processes that bring diverse actors together to define sustainability challenges, co-design visions of desirable futures and develop concrete pathways toward implementation. With local processes in 12 cities and municipalities, the project addresses sustainable lifestyles, circular and sharing economy, biodiversity, food systems and social sustainability, strengthening bottom-up engagement and collaborative governance for societal transitions. We make transition! promotes empowered civil society and collaboration among local authorities, businesses, and communities to co-create sustainable solutions, driving social innovation and social entrepreneurship through participatory transition arenas that tackle ecological and social challenges across the Baltic Sea region.
	OUTPUTS: • Transition Arena processes implemented in 12 partner locations to enable stakeholder visioning and co-creation of sustainability actions. • Joint Baltic Sea Region sustainability vision co-created with transnational change agents to guide regional and local transformation. • Manual on Transition Arena methodology for practitioners and authorities to apply participatory governance in local sustainability strategies. • Pilot initiatives and community actions emerging from local transition arenas to support eco-social change. • Networking and capacity building events including webinars to disseminate knowledge on collaborative innovation and transition management.
	FURTHER RESOURCES: We make transition! project page – Interreg Baltic Sea Region Project overview – The Baltic Institute of Finland Transition Arena Guide (English) – Project documentation
	DURATION: January 2023 – December 2025
	PROGRAMME: Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2021-2027 Countries involved: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Norway, Germany
	CONTACT: Lead Partner: The Baltic Institute of Finland, Finland Lead partner contact person: Johanna Leino (Email) Laura Karppinen (Email)