Programme support Internat.Social Science Council 2014-2017 ISSC fond för samhällsvetenskaplig klimatforskning The programme support to the International Social Science Council     (ISSC) stands as a pioneering research-policy initiative aiming at    increasing the social science contributions necessary to craft more   effective, equitable and sustainable responses to the problems of     climate, global environmental change and sustainable development. ISSC (etab.1952)är ett Internationelt samhällsvetenskapliga           forskningsorganisationer. Syftet av Sidas bidrag till programmet är   att öka forsknings kapacitet och kunskapsproduktion inom              samhällsvetenskap genom förstärkning av bred internationellt          vetenskapliga nätverk av excellens inom strategiskt klimat och        mijöfrågor. The International Social Science Council (ISSC) established in 1952 by UNESCO representing the social, economic and behavioural sciences at an international level has launched a programme called "Transformations to Sustainability: A 10-year Social Science Research Funding and Coordination Programme on Global Change and Sustainability", i.e Transformation to Sustainability (T2S) programme. This programme aims at building a global transformative social science-led transdisciplinary research to sustainability. 

ISSC has since merged with ICSU (June 2018) and is now the organisation ISC (International Science Council). The T2S programme remains, and aims at building a global transformative social science-led transdisciplinary research to sustainability. The programme is designed to form a T2S research community through a global call for which research teams are joined by researchers from the global north and south as well as low and lower-middle income countries. Sida support was first channelled 2014-2017, then extended to 2018-2021 (now 2022). 

The T2S programme (2017-2022) has two major objectives:
- To develop understanding of and promote research on transformations to sustainability which are of significant social, economic and policy concern throughout the world and of great relevance to both academics and stakeholders;
- To build capacity, overcome fragmentation and have a lasting impact on both society and the research landscape by cultivating durable research collaboration across multiple borders, disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners and societal partners. This includes facilitating the development of new research collaborations with parts of the world which are not often involved in large-scale international research efforts, notably low- and middle-income countries.

There are unique goals for the four-year extension of the programme:
1. To harness the knowledge, research results and networks created by the Transformative Knowledge Networks (TKNs), particularly in the period 20182019, to amplify the impact of the first set of projects;

2. To promote and facilitate the full and equal participation of researchers from the global south in the Belmont ForumNORFACE T2S progam over the period 2018-2021, and to integrate them into the wider T2S network through knowledge exchange and knowledge integration activities.

There are three Transformative Knowledge Networks (TKNs):
1) Acknowl-EJ; Acronym stands for Activist-Academic Co-Production of Knowledge Team - Environmental Justice; 2) Pathways; and 3) T-learning.T stands for transformative, transgressive and transdisciplinary. 

Through the calls for researchers (see above), research teams have been formed clustered in the three networks, with the intention to chart new transformative pathways towards sustainability and ways of working. Critical dimensions include social justice, environment/climate, conflict and power relations.