Studia Generalia: Just transformation and citizens’ behavioral change in society

The Sustainability Transformation Doctoral Education Pilot (SusTra) offers open Studia Generalia lectures in autumn 2025. The best experts in the field offer the lecture series, tackling the pressing sustainability challenges we face. These 14 online lectures will provide impactful insights into creating a sustainable life and society across various domains, including work, business, leadership, administration, legislation, social imagination, well-being, and education.
These Studia Generalia lectures are based on an open Sopuli PhD course organised by SusTra Doctoral Education Pilot, a collaboration of 10 universities and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, www.uef.fi/sustra

• Osallistu luennolle tästä: https://uef.zoom.us/j/64857640310

Thu 20.11. Riikka Paloniemi, SYKE: Just transformation and citizens’ behavioral change in society

• Theme of the lecture: In just sustainability transformation, citizens, their agency and behavioral change, may play major roles. In this lecture I will discuss and critically reflect the interlinkages of social and ecological resilience and tipping points in sustainability transformations to shed light on renewing, empowering roles of citizens.
• Riikka Paloniemi is a unit director of societal change unit at Finnish Environment Institute, Syke, where she studies just sustainability transformations, environmental, biodiversity and natural resource policies as well as societal engagement and development of sustainability agency. In her research, she emphasizes the importance of hope, systems thinking and social learning. She is the vice-chair of national forest bioeconomy science panel

Further information

Responsible course leader: Professor Arto O. Salonen, UEF

Course coordination: Research manager Meri Löyttyniemi, UEF