ToBe: Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators

ToBe旨在通过制定综合政策和变革性指标，建立对可持续福祉经济的理解。我们为可持续转型领域的理论和实证知识做出贡献，并推动对GDP以外的可持续福祉和包容性经济的理解。我们与欧洲、非洲和南美洲的研究人员、政策制定者和公民一起，研究如何更好地将思维方式、指标、创新和政策结合起来，实现可持续发展范式。我们将绿色增长和后增长倡议结合起来，创造对经济增长的全新理解。在概念化可持续福祉和确定可持续福祉经济的变革指标时，我们还考虑环境和社会正义。我们提供有关经济发展、社会成果和可持续性的新经验知识，以应对错综复杂的社会挑战，并设想综合政策解决方案。所有这些都有助于建立一个生态宏观经济模型，评估综合政策方案和加速可持续性范式的综合。ToBe的社会影响与欧洲到2050年成为碳中和大陆的政策目标直接相关。我们将通过探索社会和经济韧性和可持续性，以及为此目的整合不同政策，提高政策制定能力和一致性。会议成果将有助于创建可持续和包容性经济，并为建立在可持续增长基础上的欧非关系建立共同愿景。我们的共同创造平台将通过更好地理解经济增长与可持续福祉经济之间的权衡和协同作用，包括可持续发展不同维度的变革逻辑，加强知识共同体，推动碳中和，解决危机交织背景下的不平等和脆弱性问题。

ToBe aimsto build an understanding of a sustainable wellbeing economy by developing integrated policies and transformative indicators. We contribute to theoretical and empirical knowledge in the field of sustainability transformation and advance understanding of sustainable wellbeing and inclusive economy beyond GDP. Together with researchers, policymakers and citizens in Europe, Africa and South America, we study how mindsets, indicators, innovations and policies could better work together towards the sustainability paradigm. We bring together green growth and postgrowth initiatives to create a novel understanding of economic growth. We also consider environmental and social justice when conceptualising sustainable wellbeing and identifying transformative indicators of a sustainable wellbeing economy. We provide new empirical knowledge on economic development, social outcomes and sustainability to address entangled societal challenges and to envision integrated policy solutions. All this contributes to an ecological macroeconomic model assessing integrated policy packages and to a synthesistypology of an accelerating sustainability paradigm. ToBe’ssocietal impact is linked directly to Europe’s policy goal of becoming a carbon-neutral continent by 2050. We will improve policy making capacity and coherence by exploring social and economic resilience and sustainability, as well as integrating different policies towards this end. The results will help create a sustainable and inclusive economy, as well as a shared vision for EU-Africa relations that build on sustainable growth. Our co-creation platform will strengthen epistemic communities to drive carbon-neutrality and tackle inequality and vulnerability in the context of entangled crises by a better understanding of trade-offs and synergies between economic growth and a sustainable wellbeing economy, including logics of change across different dimensions of sustainable development.