Research & Degrowth International
Budget
€219,311
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
8
3.2 FTE
EU Grants
€210,935
Mission & Goals
Research & Degrowth (R&D) is an academic association dedicated to research, political advocacy, formal and informal education and (trans)national alliance-building for degrowth. R&D defines degrowth as a multi-level voluntary path towards a reduction of production and consumption aiming at ecological sustainability, good life, liberty, and social justice. For R&D, degrowth is grounded in ecology, ecological economics, anthropology, psychology, and social sciences. In the degrowth process, R&D is concerned with democracy, international cooperation, and understanding as opposed to societal closure, fragmentation, and authoritarianism. R&D brings diverse actors together to think, imagine, discuss, and create proposals for sustainable degrowth. R&D promotes a diversity of degrowth strategies for achieving social equity and ecological sustainability, including: grassroots action, education, public policy advice and alliance-building.
EU Legislative Interests
Beyond GDP agenda: • Strategic Foresight Report of 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027 • 8th Environment Action Programme (EAP), which emerged from Decision (EU) 2022/591 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 April 2022 on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030 • The European Green Deal • Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/765 of 29 February 2024 amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 Just transition, green industrial policy and decarbonisation: • The REPowerEU plan, presented in May 2022 • Renewable Energy Directive • The Green Deal Industrial Plan and, in particular, the Net-Zero Industry Act • Circular Economy Action Plan • Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions Sustainable agrifood change: • Implementation of the Soil Monitoring Law • Common Agricultural Policy
Communication Activities
- Degrowth Briefs project - We work to produce a series of policy briefs targeting EU policymakers so that they can learn about and thoroughly consider degrowth policy proposals for a just ecological transition. These well-researched documents challenge conventional growth-centric policies by presenting evidence-based arguments and actionable alternatives.These briefs address key issues such as a Green New Deal without Growth, a Universal Basic Income, Trade Unions & Degrowth, Municipalities & Degrowth, Fashion and Degrowth and a Degrowth Job Guarantee. - Co-organizing the Beyond Growth Conference 2023.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Research & Degrowth International is an independent organization that belongs to a network of and has closer ties with the following organizations (https://degrowth.org/network/.): – degrowth.info (website: degrowth.info) – Global Tapestry of Alternatives (webiste: globaltapestryofalternatives.org) – KALPAVRIKSH Environmental Action Group (website: kalpavriksh.org) – Kate Raworth - Exploring Doughnut Economics (website: kateraworth.com) – Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (website: ejatlas.org) – Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie (Germany) (website: https://konzeptwerk-neue-oekonomie.org/) – Netzwerk Wachstumswende (Germany) (website: https://wachstumswende.de/) – Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Germany) (website: https://www.fsv.uni-jena.de/19470/kolleg-postwachstum) -- EcoHub (Spain) (website: https://ecohub.cat/quisom.html) For the purpose of clarity, we want to state that, even if we belong to these netwoks, for the activities concerned in this Registry we only represent the social values and mission of our organisation, and that our work is fully autonomous.
Organisation Members
R&D is constituted only by individuals, and not by other organisations. A full list of our membership can be found here: https://degrowth.org/team/ .
Additional Information
We are members of a consortium that received a grant from the EU Horizon programme for a research project called MERGE. We were granted 210,935 € for the period 01/2024 - 12/2026. This funds are unevenly distributed in our budgets of 2024, 2025 and 2026 due to the distribution of the project's activities throughout these years (the actions are more concentrated in 2025 and 2026). Hence, the fraction that we have put in our budget for 2024 is smaller than the one we will put into 2025 and 2026
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.