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Research & Degrowth International

Acronym: R&D

General Information

Identification Code: 687457348939-25
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: non-profit
Registration Category: Think tanks and research institutions
Registration Date: 2/7/2023
Last Update: 1/30/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: Research & Degrowth, (R&D) is an academic association dedicated to research, awareness-raising, and events organization around the topic of degrowth. R&D defines degrowth as a multi-level voluntary path towards 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 general. In the degrowth process, R&D is concerned with democracy, international cooperation, and understanding as opposed to societal closure, fragmentation, and authoritarianism. R&D strives to bring scientists, civil society, practitioners, and activists together to think, imagine, discuss, and create proposals for sustainable degrowth. R&D supports and aims to maintain a diversity of degrowth strategies for achieving social equity and ecological sustainability, including: grass-roots action and institutional interventions; academic and (...)
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Climate action
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Environment
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • european
  • global
  • sub-national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Replacing GDP measurement with an index that measures social wellbeing. Reduction of production and consumption. Environmental protection. Societal equality. Participatory democracy. Just relationship with the Global South.
Communication Activities: Degrowth Briefs project - a series of policy briefs to provide tools for EU policymakers. Co-organizing the Beyond Growth Conference 2023.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Calle Mallorca 4344-2
Post Code: 08013
City: Barcelona
Country: SPAIN
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EU Office

Address: Calle Mallorca 4344-2
Post Code: 08013
City: Barcelona
Country: SPAIN
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Financial Data

New Organisation: true
Current Year: [object Object]
Complementary Information: R&D International was established in 2022. Our first fiscal year is 1-12/2022. Between 2006-2022, we primarily operated volunteer basis under our previous juridical body.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 4
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 5
Members F T E: 0.6499999761581421

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: none
Organisation Members: 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 – globaltapestryofalternatives.org – kalpavriksh.org – kateraworth.com – ejatlas.org – Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie (Germany) – Netzwerk Wachstumswende (Germany) – Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Germany) – decrecimiento.info (Spain)