Pathways Communication Grants Projects

Discover former supported projects.

About the Grant

Launched in late 2021, the Pathways Initiative Communication Grants promote innovative communication products to disseminate research findings on science-based pathways for sustainability and encourage their wider uptake. Since then, the Pathways Initiative opened 5 rounds of calls and a selection committee comprising of science and communications experts awarded the following successful projects.

Completed Communication Grant Projects

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Funded Projects In Progress

Infanta: Tales of Transformation 20 Years Transcending a Tragedy

Led by Winifredo Dagli, University of the Philippines Los Banos Foundation Inc

This project narrates the post-disaster transformation of Infanta, a rural town in the Philippines vulnerable to cyclones. Through the creation of a documentary, it highlights various stakeholders’ efforts in reforestation, livelihood diversification, and institutional reforms. It serves as a counter-narrative to dominant portrayals of passive local stakeholders in climate change adaptation and aims to engage and inform a broad audience, leveraging social media and community engagement.

SHARING MATTERS - Communities to Communities

Led by Emanuele Giorgi, Tecnologico de Monterrey

The project developed a multidisciplinary methodology for managing interventions in vulnerable contexts, leading to the implementation of six technology-based projects that reduced community vulnerability and digital divides, which are now serving as living laboratories for sustainability. It will share these experiences through a video-podcast series to benefit the communities involved and inspire others.

Enabling a democratic energy transition in Colombia through collaborations between community and academia

Led by Renata Moreno Quintero, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente

The « Rural Women and the Energy Transition » project supported the formation of energy communities led by Afro-descendant women, showcasing how just energy transitions can be mobilized through knowledge co-production. A Webdoc will be created to disseminate the project, making the processes visible, demonstrating women’s experiences, and documenting innovations – crucial for actively involving women and rural communities in national energy transition strategies.

Vertical Greening for Sustainability Within Slums in African Cities

Led by Olumuyiwa Adegun, Federal University of Technology

The research project on vertical gardens designed, developed, and assessed in low-income urban neighborhoods of Lagos and Dar es Salaam will be expanded into documentary films incorporating community voices and local languages to showcase the sustainability initiatives, possibilities, and challenges of vertical greening. It will promote an effective do-it-yourself attitude on greening by socio-economically weak residents and fuel new narratives of positive change.

Visualising the foodscape

Led by Michaela Guo Ying Lo, University of Kent

The Foodscapes project explores and visualises the stories and experiences of small-scale mangrove fishers in Indonesia. Two foodscape exhibitions will be carried out to create a space of dialogue between various actors in the food system. The first will be held in Kubu Raya, Kalimantan, to share the stories and photographs taken by mangrove fishers within the local community. The second exhibition will take place in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, with the aim to engage with a broad spectrum of stakeholders that influence and shape food systems, both nationally and globally.

Watch Forum #9 that features talks about previous Pathways Communication Grant Awardees