NOK 12.2 m grant for new research on management approach promoting sustainability in the cities

Professor Jacob Torfing, Professor Eva Sørensen and Associate Professor Annika Heilskov Agger from the Dept. of Social Sciences and Business is awarded a grant of NOK 12.2 m as a part of a Norwegian and Danish joint research project about the challenges and dilemmas the cities face in becoming more sustainable.
Cyklister i København


The joint project is named GREENGOV (Governing the green shift in Oslo, Gothenburg and Copenhagen through leadership of co-creation) and is a collaboration between Roskilde University and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HiOA).

The purpose of GREENGOV is to create new and cutting edge knowledge about the challenges and dilemmas public leaders face in promoting the green shift, how they cope with them, and how their coping strategies affect the outcomes of the endeavors to make cities more green and sustainable. GREENGOV are interested in how cities can build co-creation arenas and through these enhance their capacity for creating synergies between institutional layers of hierarchical, market-inspired and network measures that together make up the governance mechanisms available to political and administrative leaders when striving for sustainable low carbon transformation.

The project will address the following main research question: Which leadership strategies and mechanisms can effectively support co-creation, learning and innovation in favour of the green shift?