Kateryna Pereverza

KTH Royal Institute of Technology | KTH · Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering

The transition to more sustainable heating systems requires socio-technical approaches to strategic planning. Scenario development plays a key role in strategic planning, as the process supports the development of future visions and actions required for their realisation. However, new approaches to scenario development are required to address the l...

In the practice of transition governance, problems are not always approached as wicked even if they are such. This can have misleading consequences because, as pointed out by Rein and Schön (1977): “the questions we ask shape the answers [i.e., policy solutions] we get”. To avoid investing resources in solving ‘wrong problems’, there is a need to b...

While the role of agency is widely acknowledged in socio-technical transition research, there remains a research gap on agency in transitions and a call for studies using an actor-centred approach to transition studies. In response to this call, this paper addresses the role of actors and, particularly, organisations in transitions. It examines the...

This study proposes a novel framework, modular participatory backcasting (mPB), for long-term planning in the heating sector. The mPB framework is based on participatory backcasting (PB) and integrates principles of modularity, participatory modelling, and transdisciplinarity. We discerned for mPB 13 modules that can be arranged according to the pu...

Transformations towards sustainability would require capabilities on different levels (individuals, groups and organisations) to build upon the diversity of perspectives and problem framings, engagement in cross-silo collaborations, and reflexivity to continuously learn from practice. Over the last year, the need to learn and collaborate remotely a...

It is widely recognised that reaching ambitious climate goals by cities would require radically reducing emissions associated with their transport and mobility systems (e.g. Wimbadi et al., 2021). (Beyond urban) geographical and governance boundaries of mobility systems indicate a need for multilevel governance strategies (Bulkeley and Betsill, 200...

The governance context of climate transition is multi-actor and multi-level by its nature. While local-level governments are becoming more prominent in addressing climate change, it is horizontally aligned policy and multi-scalar policy coherence that is needed for enabling urban transformations to sustainability. However, not much is known about h...

Cities around the world face complex and intertwined challenges connected to climate change, security threats, injustice and health crises. To address such challenges in an uncertain context, there is a need to rely on experimentation and continuous learning from experience. However, it was recently shown that structures for learning are largely mi...

Portfolio-based approaches emerge in response to the identified challenges with experimentation, a currently dominant transition governance strategy. Thus, it was found that cities are lacking structures to systematically learn from experiments, combine and integrate them in a way leading to system transformations, and scale them up in different wa...

Participatory design processes play an important role in triggering and steering urban transitions for sustainability. Quadruple helix actors, citizens, and/or specific stakeholder groups come together to co-create visions, solutions, pathways and/or experiments to foster sustainability transitions in their communities, districts, and cities. Such...

Recently, several actors started to experiment on how portfolio approaches for system transformations can be initiated and managed in practice. This study explores the journeys of the Swedish Strategic Innovation Programme "Viable Cities" and the Strategic Innovation Unit of UNDP. Viable Cities is a long-term funding programme with a mission "Clima...

Transformations towards sustainability would require capabilities on different levels (individuals, groups and organisations) to build upon the diversity of perspectives and problem framings, engagement in cross-silo collaborations, and reflexivity to continuously learn from practice. Universities are places for tipping interventions with great pot...

Addressing complex sustainability challenges requires the ability to build upon the diversity of perspectives and problem framings, cross-silo collaborations, and continuous learning and adaptation. These abilities can be fostered by enabling collaborative, active and reflexive learning among students. Collaborative learning is an essential part of...

The need for broad changes in production and consumption systems, building on but moving beyond sectoral innovation, is increasingly accepted by economic and innovation policy bodies internationally. This is manifested in a call for shaping the understanding of transformative innovation policy and broader conceptualization of the process of transfo...

Fostering sustainability transitions in the heating and cooling sector is a necessary and urgent issue. Steering mechanisms can enable coordination of actions by different actors towards common sustainability goals. Previous studies have identified requirements relevant for such steering frameworks, but have not specifically addressed planning in t...

Social learning is an important element of the reflexive governance approaches needed to enable sustainability transitions. One such approach is participatory backcasting (PB), which involves development of a desirable future vision and a pathway towards this vision. Social learning has been reported as an outcome of different PB projects, includin...

Participatory backcasting (PB) is a framework for developing a desirable future vision and a pathway on how to reach this vision. To enable efficient strategic planning in the infrastructure sector, PB relies on involvement of a broad range of stakeholders and action-orientation. Since the majority of stakeholders in the infrastructure sector are o...

Transition management has been developed as a framework to propel transitions towards long-term visions of sustainability. Within this framework, backcasting is highlighted as an appropriate approach to developing alternative transition pathways based on technological and social change. It allows constructing a desirable future vision and correspon...

Knowledge is of primary importance for sustainabilising energy systems. It is not just the knowledge to develop new generic technological systems, but especially the knowledge to pick the right energy systems for the local conditions, and to use these conditions optimally to sustainabilise the pre-existing energy systems. Both the geophysical condi...

Sustainability transformation of the heating sector is recognised as being essential for reaching climate and environmental targets while improving the quality of life in cities worldwide. Participatory strategic planning enabled by scenario methods can be an important tool to guide this transformation, but methods for qualitative scenario analysis...

The paper describes and analyses a participatory backcasting teaching toolbox (PBTT) designed to develop a set of skills required for sustainability change agents, including critical and systems thinking, future orientation, ability to work in transdisciplinary frameworks, personal involvement, conflict resolution and consensus building, dealing wi...

Purpose – This paper aims at identifying factors that could contribute to the motivation of students in sustainable development (SD) education. The underlying idea of the paper is that SD education is not always as attractive among students and lecturers as many would like it to be. Design/methodology/approach – The paper briefly reviews literatur...

The 9th Summer School Achievements and Application of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics (AACIMP) brought together over 70 young researchers and students from nine countries. With the slogan Let the science in! The 15-day school featured courses on Operational Research, specifically, Logistics and Finance, Neuroscience, Energy (focus...

Operational Research is a truly interdisciplinary field that provides many applied researchers instruments needed for dealing with complexity of real-life problems. Yet for many educators the issue of integrating OR into regular curriculum remains challenging. We propose advanced education and particularly summer schools as a conventional form for...

This chapter presents an overview of positive motivators for students, lecturers, and educational managers to prioritize Sustainable Development in education. Very often, we implicitly assume that students and colleagues should all be motivated by the great challenges that the world faces. And if they appear not to react sufficiently to these chall...

The 8th annual summer school “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics Mathematics and Physics” http:// summerschool.ssa.org.ua/ organized by volunteers from Student Science Association of National Technical University of Ukraine took place from August 1 to 17 this year. Participating were 73 students from 20 countries and 28 tutor...

This paper reflects on experiences of integrating sustainability in engineering education in Ukraine and discusses the personal contribution of Prof. Leo Jansen to this process. The authors argue that Ukrainian engineering universities are progressing in incorporating sustainability in their curricula. Major efforts are still needed to shift the fo...

In: International IFNA-ANS Journal ``Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems'', No. 1(41), vol. 20 (2014) 130-135

In: International IFNA-ANS Journal ``Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems'', No. 1(41), vol. 20 (2014) 136-142 (in Russian)

The stream “Initiatives for OR Education” was held July 3, 2013, during the EURO-INFORMS 2013 at Sapienza University. The main focus of the stream was to exchange experiences about existing initiatives for OR education - to share and systematize common approaches and methods for creating, adopting and developing OR courses in regular and extended e...

Cooperation between science and society is a key driver of knowledge-based development. After establishing independence in 1991, Ukraine is still on the way to fully adapt to the conditions of a market economy. Consequently, the research institutions of the country have limited experiences in stakeholder involvement into RTD activities and they lac...

Cooperation between science and society is a key driver of knowledge-based development. After establishing independence in 1991, Ukraine is still on the way to fully adapt to the conditions of a market economy. Consequently, the research institutions of the country have limited experiences in stakeholder involvement into RTD activities and they lac...

Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics Mathematics and Physics” is an international project annually organized by young volunteers from the Student Science Association of National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI” (SSA of NTUU “KPI”) in the capital of Ukraine - Kiev. This year, the School brought together over...

Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics Mathematics and Physics”, an international project annually organized by young volunteers from the Student Science Association of National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI” Kiev brought together over 80 young researchers and students from 18 countries for 14 days to attend...

The real world calls for professionals who have the ability to explore problems from different points of view and generate a lot of creative ideas. Participating in educational activities outside the classroom provides such an opportunity. One such educational activity is the “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics a...

The Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics” (AACIMP), an annual project aimed at promoting science among youth, organized by students for students, had “Open Minds - Open Frontiers!” as its theme. Encouraging its participants to turn new knowledge into new ideas and opportunities, the 2011...

Members of the EURO Working Groups on Continuous Optimization Working Group (EUROPT), Working Group on OR for Development, Working Group on Methodology of Scietal Complexity, Working Group on Ethics and OR, Working Group on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine, were on hand to acquaint Summer School participants with the activities an...