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TREnD Project

Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development 

Trend is a ground-breaking project envisioning transition management and resilience-building process for the new cohesion policy 2021-2027

  • Period 2019 - 2023
  • Coordinator Carmelina Bevilacqua -Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria - PAU Department
  • Fund Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE Action 2018 - Grant Agreement No 823952
  • Topics Transition Management (TM); Resilience; Diversification; Evolutionary Theory
  • Amount €1.435.200,00

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TREnD - Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development

TREnD Is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE Research Project funded by the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation. The RISE Program aims to strengthen research partnerships concerning innovative issues by the exchange of researchers among EU and Non-EU countries

The Project is expected to produce a novel concept encompassing “resilience- building” processes and Transition Management strategies based on the Evolutionary Economy’s assumptions.TREnD exploits and moves forward the findings of the MAPS-LED project, consistent with the connection of knowledge based urban development (KBUD) and Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP)

TREnD is finalized at strengthening the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition Management (TM) strategies towards driving “resilience- building” processes. The main aim is to combine Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development (TREnD) of different territorial contexts

TREnD International Open Panel Discussion 
New Metropolitan Perspectives 2020 International Symposium - Opening Event

Research

The TREnD Project main objective is to stimulate the regional diversification to be seen more as a co-creation of solutions and concepts on development problems through the enhancement of  the resilient capacity of regions; applying a transitional approach to tailored placed-based innovation policies.

The approach moves from the general question of how strengthening the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition strategies towards driving “resilience-building” processes.

The scope is to combine Transition with Resilience for Evolutionary Development in different territorial contexts towards a reforming process of Cohesion Policy for the next programming period 2021-2027.

Focus

 

Trend is a Marie sklodowska-Curie-RISE research project funded by the European Union’s horizon 2020 Programme 

The TREnD Project calls the attention on the persistent disparities among EU regions risen despite the public investments deployed by the European Union through its policies and instruments.

Advanced regions tend to minimize their own extent of being “path-dependent”, preventing the hazardous risk to fall into “lock-in” phenomena thanks to the combined benefits generated by global dynamics and innovation concentration . A the same time, lagging regions seek to adopt the Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) approach to reduce the gap with the most advanced regions. Within this backdrop, where the spatial development unevenness throughout Europe has been widening, the TREnD project envisions Transition Management as “coevolving processes which progressively build up toward a revolutionary change on the long term.

Specifically, the research project seeks to: 

  1. identify and examine the factors enabling or hindering the Transitions strategies at a governance standpoint; 
  2. assess the territorial features critical to enable a resilient-building process; 
  3. unveils the unexploited potentials for  “re-shaping trajectories” disclosed through the windows of local opportunities due to the external shocks regions are continuously exposed to. 

Innovation

TREnD brings together: (i) Resilience as an on-going process of change rather than a recovery to a (pre-existing or new) stable equilibrium state, with (ii) Diversification as a leverage of regional resilience to absorb shocks, and (iii) Evolutionary Theory based on “continuing and progressive change”.

The innovation aspect stems from conceiving Transirio Management as a keen strategical approach to translate the combination of Resilience, Economic Diversification, and Evolutionary Theory into policy design and implementation.

The research project spreads knowledge about regional economic diversification by providing a platform in the shape of an Open Access Toolkit to policy-makers and policy-users (regional authorities, academics, stakeholders, and urban advocacy groups, etc.). 

The OpenAT is expected to enhance the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition strategies towards resilient-building processes. It will work as a “capacity building” tool to promote the diffusion of social innovation.

Implementation

The research activities are structured into 4 phases. The phases have the objective to correlate the theoretical approach stemming from the evolutionary economy with the necessity to give a practical explanation of resilience and transition in terms of indicators and metrics.

Transition Management and Resilience in the Evolutionary Economy Perspective

The first phase will lead to unfold critical factors, drivers and hindrances, which define Transitions and “Resilience-building” processes. Upon an evolutionary perspective, the analysis will be based on a set of indicators (socio-economical) concerning the past development trajectories (e.g. Path-dependency) and the local degree to shift into a related/unrelated diversification.

Transition Management and Spatial Planning: towards a new territorial dimension of the Cohesion Policy
The second phase will unveil the impacts of the territorial aspects in regard of “resilience-building processes” towards new patterns of territorial development. It will be rewarded much emphasis on governance aspects including: local networks, transition arenas, and role of external actors through US-EU case studies comparison. Spatial analysis built on GIS mapping database, will be conducted to gauge the effect of the “space/place” on related/unrelated diversification indicators
Responses to external shocks: case study analysis through a resilience perspective

The third phase will sketch out how external shocks can provide latent opportunities to re-orient local development trajectories. The case studies will be assessed according to the “backcasting” approach in order to fully exploit the window of local opportunity disclosed in the aftermath of shocks and to design TM.

 

Open access Toolkit: a new gateway for regional transition policies

The fourth phase will be incrementally developed over project lifetime to upgrade metrics of TM and Resilience building process to be implemented through the Open Access Toolkit. The OpenAT is expected to enhance the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition strategies towards resilient-building processes. It will work as a “capacity building” tool to promote the diffusion of social innovation

 

TREnD Open Access Toolkit

The main goal of the research in terms of expected impact concerns the construction of the OpenAT for the European Post-2020 Cohesion Policy. The OpenAT is expected to enhance the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition strategies towards resilient-building processes. It will work as a “capacity building” tool to promote the diffusion of social innovation

OAT - Open Access Toolkit

The OpenAT is expected to enhance the regional capabilities in triggering, implementing and managing Transition strategies towards resilient-building processes. It will work as a “capacity building” tool to promote the diffusion of social innovation. The OpenAT represents the result of the TREnD Project and will be shared with the local community, entrepreneurs, public authorities and administrations and other research institutions. Specifically, the OpenAT is aimed to provide new knowledge and services for local communities of entrepreneurs, and policymakers as well as public authorities.  The OpenAT will provide a set of indicators regarding 

1) context, 

2) results, and 

3) performance as metrics of resilience-building process within TM strategies.

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Documents

TREnD Project Brochure

TREnD Project Flyer Kick-Off Meeting

TREnD Project Boston Meeting Agenda

TREnD Open Panel Debate

TREnD - New Metropolitan Perspective Symposium
TREnD - First Scientific Report

People

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    Carmelina Bevilacqua

    CLUDsLab Director - Project Coordinator
    Assistant Professor - PAU Department Università degli Studi Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria
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    Pierre Alexandre Balland

    Project Unit Coordinaor
    Assistant Professor - Department of Economic Geography Universiteit Utrecth, NL
  • Kristina Kakderi

    Project Unit Coordinator
    Assistant Professor - School of Spatial Planning and Development Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, GR
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    Vincenzo PROVENZANO

    Project Unit Coordiantor
    Associate Professor - Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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    Alan W. Dyer

    Project Unit Coordinator
    Professor Emeritus - Department of Economics Northeastern University, Boston, MA (USA)
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    Gregory Wassall

    Project unit Member
    Associate Professor - Department of Economics Northeastern University, Boston, MA (USA)
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    Dave Norris

    Project Unit Coordinator
    Chief Research and Innovation Officer - Louisiana Tech University - Ruston, LA (USA)
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    Robert Triest

    Project Unit Member
    Chair and Professor - Department of Economics Northeastern University of Boston, USA

Impacts

Publications
  1. Bevilacqua C., Ou Y., Pizzimenti P,  Minervino G. New Public Institutional Forms and Social Innovation in Urban Governance: Insights from the “Mayor’s Oce of New Urban Mechanics” (MONUM) in Boston. Sustainability 2020, 12, 23; doi:10.3390/su12010023 sustainability-12-00023-v2
Conferences

Bevilacqua et. al (2019). Leveraging Territorial Knowledge Dynamics for a more effective Smart Specialisation Strategies implementation by EU – lagging regions. Second Annual Conference on the Geography of Innovation and Complexity – TREnD 1st International Workshop. Utrecht, NL, 2-4 September, 2019. 

Partners

Università Degli Studi Mediterranea

Dipartimento Patrimonio Architettura Urbanistica Reggio Calabria, Italia

Università Di Palermo

Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche Palermo, Italia

Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis

School of Spatial Planning and Development Thessaloniki, GR

Northeastern University

Department of Economics School of Urban Affairs Boston (MA), United States of America

Universiteit Utrecth

Department of Economic Geography Utrecth, NL

Louisiana Tech University

Ruston (LA), United States of America

This Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823952

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International Symposium NMP 2022 – Open Panel Discussion – MAARC Museum of Reggio Calabria 25th May 2022

CLUDsLab News SOUND TREnD ZES24 Maggio 2022
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International Symposium New Metropolitan Perspective-NMP 2022

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EU Researchers Night 2020 SuperScienceMe – TREND and ZES Projects at the EU Corner – 27 November 2020

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