Swedish association encourages people to initiate local transitions

Mar 15, 2025Biodiversity, Clean Energy, Climate Action, Farm to Fork, Food Security, Inspiring initiative, Sustainable Mobility, Sweden

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Swedish non-profit organisation supports and educates people to initiate local transitions

Omställningsnätverket (The Transition Network) is a non-profit association that works to educate, encourage, and support local transition initiatives in Sweden since 2013. For this, they provide courses, spread information, and organise annual conferences throughout Sweden. The Swedish Transition Network is part of the International Transition Network, which brings together more than 1000 local transition initiatives in over 50 countries.

Local development
The organisation’s members are community groups and village councils, as well as local heritage associations and sports clubs, each dedicated to local sustainable development in their village or district. Examples of members’ activities include organising Midsummer celebrations and promoting their village as an attractive place to live and work.

Training, film and research
To encourage local initiatives, Omställningsnätverket offers a variety of courses and trainings. The basic two-day course provides helpful tools to start individual or collective change for anyone who is interested. Taking an artistic perspective, Omställningsnätverket co-created a film in 2021 that aims to inspire people to make positive changes in their lives and contribute to a more sustainable and just world. Another one of Omställningsnätverket’s activities is participating in the research project “Beyond the opportunity horizon: tools for exploring local energy transition”, aiming to provide new perspectives that can facilitate transition.

Behaviour change towards a green transition
The non-profit organisation targets the whole Swedish society and in particular those who are affected by the green societal transition. It has initiated and motivated a vast number of small-scale and larger-scale activities by citizens and organisations all over the country. As such, it works towards advancing awareness and behaviour change to improve sustainability.