C2B2 scientific director; Thematic pillars; LivingLabs; Research partners
C2B2 scientific director
Camilla Sandström is C2B2’s scientific director. Camilla is professor in political science at Umeå University, she serves as the UNESCO Chair on Biosphere Reserves as Laboratories for Inclusive Societal Transformation and is a member of the Swedish Government’s Climate Policy Council.
Thematic pillars
C2B2 connects three thematic pillars:
- open ecosystem and climate change science;
- open, data-driven innovation & emerging technology, and
- ocean governance and adaptive management.
Insights developed in one pillar will feed into the co-creation process while advancing the other two pillars, e.g., innovative sensor data.
LivingLabs
The C2B2 LivingLabs are innovation experiments in real life settings in Sweden, made up of actors across multiple sectors and governance levels in marine environments and interested in marine spatial planning. The LivingLabs cover selected area(s) based on interests and priorities. The methodology includes 5 stages: Prepare, Form, Explore, Embed, and Sustain.
C2B2 aims to transform the Swedish blue economy through participatory governance. We involve academia, industry, government, civil society, and the natural environment in processes ‘from data to knowledge to decisions and action’. In C2B2 data is a means to ‘give nature a voice’.
Research partners
The C2B2 group of research partners consists of ten of Sweden’s key research organisations with the core skills and competences needed to implement the transition towards co-created science-based ocean governance.