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Future Earth
WG2 Report on institutional design
Progress and Cross-cutting issues
4th Transition Team meeting, Paris
20-21 September 2012
Criteria for Future Earth research (earlier meetings)
Evaluation criteria for
institutional design
Evaluation criteria for
research
Evaluation criteria for
institutional design
(from Dec 2011 meeting, SF):
(from Oct 2011 meeting, Paris):
(from Oct 2011 meeting, Paris):
• Globally relevant
• Manageable /
demonstrate
success
• Flexible /
Responsive
A
• Inclusive
B
• High quality
science
C
• Exciting / Engaging • Focus on solution
development
• Uphold scientific
excellence
C
• Facilitate inter- and
trans-disciplinary
exchange
• Transformative
• Adaptive /
Responsive
• Openly publishable
• Inclusive (e.g.,
geographically)
• Transparent
A
B
Essential Functions of the governance structure
How to build capacity in
the academic
community to develop
knowledge for
responding to GEC risks
and opportunities?
Establish an
institutional rule
that every
activity’s science
plan must have a
knowledge
outreach plan
1.
2.
3.
4.
How to
improve
outreach to
users of our
knowledge?
Co-design,
through
continuous
dialogue, made
possible through
a diversified
toolkit
How to identify
urgent GEC
risks &
opportunities
for action?
Two-way
dialogue with
users
Design Features:
Co-design between researchers and users
On-going two-way dialogue
Diversified tool-kit
Boundary function embedded in design
How to get stable
funding to develop
GEC knowledge to
respond to these
risks and
opportunities?
Engage
boundary
organizations;
consider
embedding
boundary
function
Board:
[The Alliance?]
Future Earth
Governing Council
Secretariat
Users
Users
New Themes
Secretariat
Research
New Themes
Users
Secretariat
Secretariat
Problem Domain A
Research
Problem Domain C
Research
Problem Domain B
GEC Knowledge Bank and Global Support Hub
Our Mission:
Develop knowledge for responding effectively to the risks and
opportunities of global environmental change
General criteria for Future Earth research
o Answers to complex questions
that require international
collaboration
o From fundamental to actionable
Earth system research for global
sustainability
o Co-design and co-production of
knowledge
o Integration of natural, economic,
engineering, arts, humanities and
social sciences
o Regional to global scale
Guiding implementation principles
• Sound scientific basis, including a strong
interdisciplinary collaboration
• Co-design with stakeholders
• International reach (involve relevant communities around
the world)
• User-influenced: better connect knowledge and action
• Transparency
• Nimbleness, responsiveness and lack of bureaucracy
• Avoidance of conflicts of interests
• Diversity
• Sustainable implementation
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Establishing a
governance structure
o An overarching governing
council and science committee
o A distributed institutional
design engaging the global
north and south
o A global network initiative and
nodes of leadership and
excellence
Identifying stakeholders
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Roles and responsibilities
Multistakeholder
Governing Council
Science
Committee
User
Committee
Executive Secretariat
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Guidelines for defining IRTs and Projects
New IRTs could be initiated by the SC (and funders), stakeholder
and users consultations, individual scientists or scientific
communities, or international or regional bodies.
At meetings of the GC, IRTs will be evaluated, gaps will be
identified, the need for new IRTs will be assessed, and IRT
proposals will be discussed and, if necessary, supported.
There should be possibilities for smaller projects and activities
Future Earth is engaging with user and stakeholder communities
that are traditionally not involved in research. Future Earth has to
take stock and learn from the on-going transdisciplinary
experiences and dialogues.
A crucial element in Future Earth is a synthesis and integration
module. This must be facilitated by the Executive Secretariat.
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Overall structure
Is the proposed structure fit for
delivering Future Earth’s goals and
especially:
• Integration of disciplines
• Engagement of stakeholders
• Distribution in regional nodes
• Linkages to national committees
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Management of research: Major questions
• Is the proposed structure consistent with the research
framework envisaged?
• How will the integration and synthesis of knowledge be
delivered?
• How will the engagement of stakeholders in the
research be delivered (in setting the agenda, producing
research, disseminate findings, etc.)?
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Stakeholder engagement
• Are the following three aspects (interdisciplinarity,
interface with stakeholders and regional emphasis)
appropriately reflected in the proposed structure?
• What type of stakeholder engagement is needed at the
various levels of the governance structure?
• What does transdisciplinarity involve? When does coproduction start? Can the proposed structure enable to
co-design research and co-deliver Future Earth with
stakeholders?
• What are the
contributions?
mechanisms
to
allow
bottom-up
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