ENGAGE.EU Think Tank January 2026: Sustainable Collaborations for Sustainability:

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The ENGAGE.EU Think Tanks provides a forum for intensive academic exchange. Researchers will exchange their ideas with colleagues from ENGAGE.EU partners and inform and learn from leading academic, industry and policy experts. Participants can build new research collaborations and launch new projects, papers, or funding applications.

The Think Tank 2026 will bring together researchers from the ENGAGE.EU partner universities who share an interest in research on inter-organizational collaboration and networks from a broad range of disciplines such as political science, public management, sociology, economics, social psychology, business and management, organization studies, accounting, law and finance.

The Think Tank is focused on the question, how we can tackle complex social and environmental problems in an interconnected world and achieve transformational change through inter-organizational collaborations and networks that address joint problems that none of the organizations could achieve individually. Whether it is about eradicating sickness through a sustained mass vaccination strategy, making supply chains free of slave labor and improve workers’ working conditions, or making agricultural production more regenerative, tackling these social and environmental sustainability issues requires collaboration between a multitude of organizations often from different sectors.

The Think Tank is aimed at exploring core research themes and opportunities related to Sustainable Collaborations for Sustainability:

Conditions and consequences
Governance and roles
Legal contexts and forms
Sustaining the collaboration
Accountability: external and internal
Stakeholder participation

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