... development Regional development Austria During the past few years the university has built up contacts with sustainability stakeholders in Styria, Austria and across the borders. With the foundation of RCE Graz‐Styria, those contacts should become partners to pursue common goals in research...

... development Austria In the project Leben 2014, one full year has been dedicated to prepare the field for transdisciplinary cooperation. At that stage, the project development was primarily driven by university teachers and regional actors. Students were represented only by selected individuals...

... approach put into effect in the Feldbach region in the south‐east of Austria was the concept of Islands of Sustainability. The idea of this concept was the realisation of a regional pathway towards sustainable development via conscious management of flows (of matters, products, capital, etc...