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Flourishing life and sustainable hedonism

We know that happiness is good for a flourishing life. We also know from research that happy people are healthier, care more about the others, they are more open to supporto socio-ecological transformation. But the quest for happiness often fails, traditionally because of addiction and over consumption and recently also...

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Mapping European initiatives on sustainable development & sustainable transition

The current climate crisis has led European institutions to increasingly direct their policies towards sustainable development and ecological transition. To be effective, such sustainability transition initiatives should be socially equitable. SPES partners from the University of Florence are working in two separate mapping to highlight the relevance of sustainable human...

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Reducing inequalities as a central objective

We still tend to develop policies that follow the status quo, without envisioning radical transformations towards more equal societies. We need more disruptive ideas. Social Platform, the largest leading organisation working on social issues and Belgian Partner of the SPES Consortium, participated to the presentation event of the ETUI...

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SPES first mission: participating to Beyond Growth!

A great opportunity to engage in the European debate on sustainability transition with several experts, scholars, EPMs, EC representatives, organizations, and activists, who represent the main target audience of our project! Participating to the Beyond Growth annual conference was the occasion to explain the approach, perspective and objectives of the...

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