Center for Systems Innovation

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Center for Systems Innovation

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Let's make our world a better place
one system at a time! Education & innovation for sustainability.

08/10/2026

How can universities share environmental data so communities can actually use it?

🟢 On 28–29 September, ENTER partners met online for Data in Action: From Sharing to Co-Creation. Around 60 participants joined two days of talks, live polls and a partner consultation clinic.

CSI facilitated the event and co-organised it with University of Bremen, Estonian University of Life Sciences and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.

The thread running through both days: universities identify challenges and share data, solutions are co-created with stakeholders, and communities put them to use.
Our colleagues led two of the sessions:

🔹 Attila Katona presented Urban Nature Explorer, showing how a shared digital tool can bring together evidence, stakeholder input and planning in a Living Lab.

🔹 Camille Jetzselle Fresto introduced the ENTER Living Lab process and guideline, and where data sharing fits in the Living Lab cycle.

We were also joined by Nomin E. (University of Pécs), Kanwal Nayan Singh (Climate Analytics), Ruthi Veibiakkim (Estonian University of Life Sciences) and Uzair Rusli 🐢(Universiti Malaysia Terengganu).

They spoke on responsible data co-creation and on turning environmental data into shared knowledge. They also shared Living Lab experiences from a turtle sanctuary in Malaysia 🐢 to Pondicherry in India 🌊

The big questions from the consultation clinic:
▪️ Where should data live, and who looks after it?
▪️ How do we connect datasets from different sources?
▪️ How do we make science understandable and useful for communities?

Next up: turning these answers into practical data guidelines for ENTER Living Labs.

Thank you to all speakers and participants!

To see full presentations, and more details, visit: https://enter-project.net/events/

29/09/2026

📖Summer may be almost over, but there’s never a bad season for reading - and rethinking sustainability. So, we’ve prepared three books that invite us to look beyond the green-tech fix.

Sustainability is usually treated as a technology problem: better materials, cleaner energy, smarter systems. These three books argue that it is also a cultural one - a question of what we know, what we value, and how we organise life together.

🔵Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All, Jeremy Lent, 2026
A newly published attempt to redesign society as a coherent whole - from food, housing and infrastructure to money and democracy - around principles such as justice, mutuality, diversity and symbiosis.

🔵Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, Helena Norberg-Hodge, 1991
A close account of Ladakh’s transformation under rapid economic development, and a challenge to the assumption that one model of “progress” should apply to every culture and place.

🔵Local Is Our Future, Helena Norberg-Hodge, 2019
A broader argument that our ecological, social and economic crises are connected- and that rebuilding local economies and place-based relationships can address several of them at once.

Read together, the books create a productive disagreement.

❔Do we need a shared idea of ecocivilisation - strong enough to coordinate action against climate breakdown, inequality and extraction? Or does any singular vision of “the sustainable future” risk becoming another universal model imposed on very different cultures, communities and ecosystems?

Perhaps the real challenge is to hold both ideas at once: shared ecological limits and responsibilities, but plural and locally constructed pathways for living within them.

Technology can expand our options. Evidence can clarify consequences and trade-offs. But neither can decide what a good life should mean in a particular place. That requires communities to deliberate, make choices and construct their own internally coherent regenerative pathways.

23/09/2026

We're happy to announce that the Center for Systems Innovation will be exhibiting at Circular Economy Hotspot Budapest 2026!

🟢 Europe's leading circular economy event is coming to Hungary for the first time, and we'll be there to show how systems thinking turns circularity from ambition into action.

At CSI, we help organisations, policymakers, schools and change-makers make sense of complex sustainability challenges. Our work spans circular economy, urban transformation and sustainable development governance. We bring it to life through role-playing games, simulation tools, learning materials, workshops and guides that make systems thinking practical and
engaging.

🙌 At our stand, we'll be showcasing these tools along with our international projects on circularity. Come by to try them out and hear what we've learned working across borders.

Let's connect and explore what we could build together.
📍 Budapest | 6th October 2026
🔗 Programme and registration: https://lnkd.in/eQgtcCRN

14/09/2026

Universities, communities, and organizations hold pieces of the data puzzle. The challenge is making the pieces fit. 🧩

Scattered information, incompatible formats, unclear permissions and patchy connectivity all leave pieces that don't connect. Join us to find where the gaps are and work out how to close them together.

📢 DATA IN ACTION: From Sharing to Co-Creation ICT, Open Science and Living Labs for Community Collaboration

📅 28–29 September 2026
🕘 09:00–11:00 CEST (2 hours each day)
💻 Online via Zoom
👥 For HEI staff and industry partners

Day 1: Finding the pieces: sharing, infrastructure and responsible co-creation
🔹 Digital innovation ecosystems for academia, industry and communities
🔹 Data and ICT infrastructure: storage, access, permissions and interoperability
🔹 Case study: Living Labs and co-creation with the Urban Nature Explorer
🔹 Data stories from ENTER Living Lab partners
🔹 Trust, ethics and Open Science in community data work

Day 2: Putting them together: from experience to practical solutions
🔹 Lessons from a Living Lab in practice
🔹 Partner Consultation Clinic: bring the piece that doesn't fit, a real ICT or data-sharing challenge from your institution, and work with partners on a technical fix, a decision path and a clear next step

No single institution can complete this picture alone. Bring your piece, and let's build it together. 🧩

👉 Register here: https://shorturl.at/l39bd

09/09/2026

We're happy to bring you a new opportunity 🥳

Our long-term partners at Art of Hosting Hungary are hosting a two-day participatory leadership training on YOUTH & DEMOCRACY with a huge discount compared to usual Art of Hosting fees. if you've ever sat in a meeting that went nowhere and thought "there has to be a better way to do this" - this is where you learn the better way.

🗓 24–25 October 2026
📍 Budapest (venue soon)
🗣 In English
👥 Ages 18–35
💶 EUR 50 participation fee, by bank transfer before 1 October

It's built for aspiring changemakers, community organizers, students and young professionals: a supportive peer environment to find your own leadership style and build a toolkit of collaborative practices you can take straight back to your projects, organizations and communities.

No prior facilitation experience needed, just your Curiosity and openness.

Register 👉https://shorturl.at/OoxxQ

Facebook event: https://shorturl.at/oX8J2

08/09/2026

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📣 Megnyílt a jelentkezés a Girls Go STEM 2026-os nagyköveti programjára!
Diákokat és tanárokat keresünk a 2026 októberétől 2027 júliusáig tartó programba. Örülnénk, ha a közösségünkből is minél többen jelentkeznétek:

🎓 Diáknagykövetnek olyan 14–19 éves lányok jelentkezhetnek, akik már elvégezték a Girls Go STEM tanulási programját. A résztvevők Európa-szerte rendezvényeken szólalhatnak fel, STEM- és vállalkozási szakemberek segítik őket havi mentorálással, emellett vezetői és kommunikációs készségeket fejlesztő workshopokon vehetnek részt. Az EIT Community hivatalos felületein is bemutatkozhatnak.
🍎 Tanárnagykövetnek olyan középiskolában vagy szakképzésben tanító pedagógusokat várnak, akik már használják a Circular Learning Space platformot. A nagykövetek európai rendezvényeken képviselik a programot, utazási költségeiket a szervezők teljes egészében fedezik. Emellett Girls Go STEM tréneri tanúsítványt szerezhetnek, és részt vehetnek egy hazai tanári hálózat kialakításában.
💡 Mi például két, félvezetőkről szóló kurzust fejlesztettünk a programhoz. Ezek bemutatják a homoktól a chiprendszerekig vezető utat, az iparág működését és geopolitikai hátterét, valamint a területen elérhető sokféle karrierlehetőséget. Büszkék vagyunk erre a munkára, és örülünk, hogy a nagykövetek segítségével ezek az ismeretek Európa-szerte eljuthatnak a tantermekbe és a rendezvények közönségéhez
📅 Jelentkezési határidő: szeptember 14., 13:00 CET
📢 Eredményhirdetés: szeptember 30.
Ha még nem használjátok a platformot, már ebben a félévben elkezdhetitek, és a következő körben ti is jelentkezhettek nagykövetnek. Írjatok nekünk, szívesen segítünk az indulásban.
👉 Diákok: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-students/
👉 Tanárok: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-teachers/
Ha ismertek olyan tanárt vagy diákot, akit érdekelhet a program, osszátok meg vele ezt a bejegyzést!

📣 Applications are open for the 2026 Girls Go STEM Ambassadors Programme — and we would love to see teachers and students from our network apply.
We are looking for student and teacher ambassadors for a one-year mandate running October 2026 to July 2027:

💡We are proud to have developed two courses on semiconductors for this programme — from sand to chip systems, the geopolitics and industry behind them, and the full spectrum of careers students can pursue in the field. Ambassadors are the ones who carry this work into classrooms and onto stages across Europe.
📅 Applications close 14 September, 13:00 CET
📢 Results announced 30 September

Not using the platform yet? You can start this semester and apply in the next round — reach out and we will help you get set up.
👉 Students: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-students/
👉 Teachers: https://eit-girlsgostem.eu/ambassadors-programme-teachers/

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07/09/2026

✨This Thursday!✨ What if the success of a nature-based solution depends on an infrastructure we cannot see?

Behind environmental action lies a network of people and relationships: stakeholders communicating, collaborating, building trust and learning together. These connections can shape whether promising ideas become effective, lasting solutions—but they are rarely measured.

Join Daniel Teodoro, PhD, founder and director of Dialectik and a social network scientist, for:
🌿 Quantifying the Invisible Social Infrastructure in Social-Ecological Systems: The talk will explore the Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI) framework—a science-based monitoring approach that measures learning as a function of network structure and enables comparison across different sites.
By making stakeholder networks more visible, SNPI can help us better understand how relationships, collaboration, communication and learning contribute to effective nature-based solutions.
Daniel’s research and consulting span stakeholder participation, resilience decision-making, social-ecological network analysis and transdisciplinary approaches to climate adaptation.
The conversation will be led by PHYSI’s Prof. László Pintér, and concluded by a chello musical postlude by Borbála Tamáska. 🎵

📅 Thursday, 10 September 2026
🕔 17:00
📍 Budapest
💻 Online participation available here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89668372492?pwd=nfxQuxv2pRw9kRHC3qRxB7pbdPT8ft.1

Save the date and join us as we make the invisible infrastructure behind nature-based solutions visible.

03/09/2026

🌿 Looking for a fun learning opportunity in September?

🎓 There are still a few last minute tuition-free spots open for students in our annual International Summer University - this year organized in Catania, Italy 🇮🇹, on 15–29 September!

Hosted by our partner, the University of Catania, the “Naturation: Nature-Based Urban Regeneration” summer university will explore how urban spaces can be redesigned around green infrastructure to boost ecosystem services and community well-being.

CSI’s Attila Katona will share global perspectives on urbanization and nature-based solutions, including:
🌏 Behind-the-scenes insights from the world’s largest database, the Urban Nature Atlas, and lessons from its data
🏘 Experiences of financing transformative urban development with nature
🪙 Approaches to integrating NbS across governance and sectoral systems
📊 Scenario work using the Urban Nature Explorer, with real-time projections of costs and impacts, featuring NATURGO cases from Umeå, Sweden, and Debrecen, Hungary

One week of keynote lectures, hands-on design workshops, and site visits in Catania will be followed by a week of group work and final presentations online.
🌏Participants from Asia and Europe will tackle a real-world case study, working across the full green transition cycle - from designing resilient green infrastructure and measuring the benefits of urban nature to regenerating built-up areas and navigating policy and funding.

📩 How to apply?
Submit your CV and a short motivational letter via email to both addresses:
[email protected]
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31/07/2026

Our latest KA220 Edu.Circular newsletter is out!

🟢 We're excited to introduce the School Guide - a practical resource designed to help teachers, families, and students make the principles of the circular economy part of their everyday lives.

The guide is packed with practical guidance, hands-on activities, and inspiring examples to help schools and communities embrace more sustainable practices.

👉 Explore our latest newsletter to discover the School Guide, the EduCircular Moodle platform, and other exciting project updates.

24/07/2026

🩷 💚 WomenESEPack wraps its pilot phase 109 women trained across Europe

We're proud to share the results of WomenESEPack, an Erasmus+ co-funded project under which we developed a free sustainability course for women entrepreneurs

🟢 The project set out to solve a clear problem: women entrepreneurs across Europe face real barriers to sustainability education, from time constraints to content that doesn't reflect their business realities. WomenESEPack was built to close that gap.

The results from our Latvia and Italy pilots:
⚪ 109 women completed the free e-learning course
⚪39 workshop participants certified
⚪18 Action Plans and Flourishing Business Canvases delivered

The programme pairs a free, multilingual Udemy course (English, Latvian, German, Italian) covering the circular economy, social impact, and environmental sustainability with hands-on 2-hour workshops using the Flourishing Business Canvas and Future Radars tools.

👉 Explore the free course: https://shorturl.at/QbvMz

Full results in our press release: https://shorturl.at/9fiyW

The complete toolkit, - course, facilitation guide, factsheet, and final booklet - is built for replication. Any Business Support Organisation in Europe can adopt or localise it for their own community.

🟢 Interested in bringing WomenESEPack to your organisation or language? Reach out — we'll share all the resources and guidance you need to get started.
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