Irene Vivas Lalinde

Biography

Irene Vivas Lalinde holds a MSc on Public Policy and Human Development (UNU Merit – Maastricht School of Governance) and is developing her career on environmental governance and innovation. She has research experience on wastewater governance, circular economy, innovation platforms, participatory methods, and SDGs. She is currently working at the Transitions Hub of EIT Climate KIC. The EIT Climate-KIC Transitions Hub will contribute to the MOTION project by consolidating learning through the co-production of practice-based knowledge to face a set of demand-driven technical assistance related services for monitoring and learning for cities and regions. The Transitions Hub is a policy-oriented in-house lab unit located in Brussels. Its mission is to enable interactions and co-design process with key EU organisations and external experts in fields such as sustainability transitions & system innovation, EU/regional policy and circular economy.