Sustainability revolution: This is how the change to the circular economy is successful!

Sustainability revolution: This is how the change to the circular economy is successful!

Bonn, Deutschland - The RWTH Aachen welcomed Machteld Simoens to a new junior professor for the foundation professorship "Governance of socio-technical transformation". Your research aims to address the challenges of the transformation to the circular company, which many consider essential for sustainable development. After her extensive studies in the field of environmental and social sciences as well as a doctorate on the skills in the German packaging sector, she turns to the question of why sustainable innovations often fail in practice. Simoens emphasizes that a successful transformation must include the variety of perspectives of stakeholders - including producers, political decision -makers and consumers. The challenges are complex, and simple solutions will not be sufficient to make change effectively, reports Kabinett-online.de.

At the same time, the University of Potsdam under the direction of Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz with the digital transformation. The research group has recently successfully completed the international project Rise_SMA, which developed interdisciplinary research approaches in crisis communication and social media analytics over five years. This project, funded by the EU program Horizon 2020, brought together experts from a wide variety of countries and published over 20 scientific articles that provided significant impulses in digital research. Especially during the corona pandemic, the methodology developed played a crucial role in using social media more effective for crisis communication, according to the notification of Uni-potsdam.de .

In addition, a new project called Cylene is funded at the University of Potsdam, which deals with cyberbullying and hate messages and should develop strategies for combating. This project, also supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, aims to create interfaces for the early detection of cyber abuse. This takes another step in research that is intended to strengthen and preserve digital society.