Gesa Pflitsch
Dr. Gesa Pflitsch MSc.
Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 65, 1180 Wien
Email gesa.pflitsch@boku.ac.at
Career
- 2023 Post-Doc in the FWF project "Universities as Institutional Entrepreneurs in Regional Sustainability Transitions", Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN), BOKU, Vienna, Austria.
- 2022 - 2023 Associate professor at the Mohne Center for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- 2020 - 2021 Communication (Website and Newsletter), Carinthian International Center (CIC), Villach, Austria
- 2020 - 2021 Post-Doc in the working group "Geography of services, communication and innovation" (50%), University of Marburg, Germany
- 2016 - 2019 PhD thesis with the title "Micro-dynamics and institutional change in regional transition paths to sustainability" at the University of Marburg, Germany
- 2013 - 2013 Innovation- und Projectmanager, TransMIT GmbH, Gießen, Germany
- 2013 - 2017 Research assistant in the working group „Economic geography and location research“, University of Marburg, Germany
- 2010 - 2013 Master of Science, Human Geography: Innovation and Spatial Impact, University of Marburg, Germany
- 2004 - 2009 Magister Artium, Communication Science, University of Münster, Germany
Awards
- Year: 2020 Awards: Post-Doc scholarship from the University of Marburg, Germany
- Year: 2017 Awards: PhD scholarship from the University Marburg, Germany
Projects
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Publications
Knowledge Transfer to Society
Media
Presentations
Year: 2025 - Wie wirken Universitäten in regionalen Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen? Ein Blick auf zwei Universitäten in den Alpen (Vortrag)
Autoren: Hinterleitner, I
Event: 25. Österreichischer Klimatag 2025
Period: 23.04.2025 - 25.04.2025 | Location: Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck, Österreich | Location: Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck, Österreich | Organizer:
Climate Change Centre Austria | Organizer: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck | Organizer: Climate Change Center Austria (CCCA)Year: 2024 - Creating 'intermediate spaces' for transformative knowledge generation at the university-region interface (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, G; Radinger-Peer, V
Event: TRARK networking meeting
Period: 03.10.2024 - 04.10.2024 | Location: 3770 Allinge-Sandvig, Dänemark | Organizer:
Ruhr-Universität BochumYear: 2024 - Rethinking the Third Mission: Organizing Dissonance in Transformative Universities (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, G; Menzel, MP; Cinar, R
Event: RSA Annual Conference 2024 - 'Global Challenges, Regional Collaboration and the Role of Places'
Period: 11.06.2024 - 14.06.2024 | Location: Florence, Italy | Location: Florenz, Italien | Organizer:
Università degli Studi di Firenze | Organizer: Regional Studies Association (RSA)Year: 2024 - The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Regional Sustainability Transitions. An integrative literature review. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Hinterleitner, I.
Event: RSA Annual Conference 2024 - 'Global Challenges, Regional Collaboration and the Role of Places'
Period: 11.06.2024 - 14.06.2024 | Location: Florence, Italy | Location: Florenz, Italien | Organizer:
Università degli Studi di Firenze | Organizer: Regional Studies Association (RSA)Year: 2024 - Visual analysis of complex process dynamics in tranformative knowledge regions (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, G
Event: 2nd TRAKR Workshop „Exploring Transformative Knowledge in Transition Processes” in collaboration with CREST
Period: 22.02.2024 - 22.02.2024 | Location: online | Organizer:
Regional Studies AssociationYear: 2023 - Analyzing by visualizing – how visuals can help to uncover the dynamics of time-space paths (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: Winter school on advanced qualitative methodology and theorizing in economic geography
Period: 10.02.2023 | Location: Bern
Year: 2023 - Wie werden Hochschulen zu Treibern regionaler Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen? (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: Workshop „Transformationslabor Hochschule“ des Stifterverbands der deutschen Wissenschaft
Period: 12.12.2023 | Location: Online
Year: 2023 - "An organizational context for engaged universities rethinking the third mission from a valuation perspective" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Ridvan, Cinar; Menzel, Max-Peter
Event: Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association
Year: 2023 - "Civil society actors in regional transformations to sustainability" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Hendriks, Nadja; Radinger-Peer, Verena
Event: Regiosuisse-Wissenschaftsforum 2023: Transformationsprozesse für lebendige Regionen
Year: 2022 - "Transition Topology: Capturing Institutional Dynamics in Regional Development Paths to Sustainability" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Event: Ingenio Seminar
Period: 08.04.2022 | Location: Valencia
Year: 2022 - "Exploring multi-scalar effects on regional transformations to sustainability: A focus on (micro-)patterns" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: 6th Geography of Innovation Conference
Year: 2022 - "Foreign actors, local institutions: the role of transnational actors in Afghanistan’s energy landscape" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Fahimi, Abdullah; Upham, Paul; Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography
Year: 2022 - "Mapping institutional and organizational dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability with the transition topology" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: IASS Workshop: IASS Workshop on Transformations towards sustainability at the regional level
Period: 25.11.2022 | Location: Potsdam
Year: 2022 - "Institutional and organizational dynamics in regional sustainability transitions" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: PhD course on Innovation and Sustainability Transitions
Period: 25.08.2022 | Location: Bergen
Year: 2021 - "Foreign actors/agents changing local institutions: The role of transnational actors in Afghanistan’s energy transitions" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Fahimi, Abdullah; Upham, Paul; Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: 12th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
Year: 2021 - “Civil society in transition – Changing institutional work activities of civil society in the Augsburg region”. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa, Hendriks, Nadja
Event: 12th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
Year: 2021 - Transitionstopologie – ein Ansatz zur Erfassung institutioneller Dynamiken in regionalen Entwicklungspfaden zur Nachhaltigkeit (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa
Event: Forschungskolloquium des Fachgebiets Nachhaltige Mobilität und transdisziplinäre Forschungsmethoden (NaMo) im Wintersemester 2021/22
Period: 07.12.2021 | Location: Online
Year: 2019 - „Viele Wege führen ans Ziel?! – Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in regionalen Nachhaltigkeitstransitionen“ (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Hendriks, Nadja
Event: Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019
Period: 25.09.2019 - 30.09.2019 | Location: Tübingen | Location: Frankfurt, GERMANY | Location: Kiel, Germany | Location: Kiel | Organizer:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG) | Organizer: Geographen des deutschsprachigen RaumesYear: 2018 - „Organizational and institutional change in regional transition paths to sustainability" (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Event: 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography
Year: 2018 - „Transition topology – a methodological approach to map (systemic) change in transition paths” (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Event: 9th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
Year: 2017 - The involvement of universities in regional transition paths to sustainability - insights from the Augsburg region (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, G; Radinger-Peer, V;
Event: 8th International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2017
Period: 18.06.2017 - 21.06.2017 | Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Year: 2016 - „Organizational and institutional change – micro-dynamics in regional transition paths to sustainability”. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Event: 3rd Geography of Innovation Conference
Year: 2015 - „Mikro-Dynamiken und institutioneller Wandel in regionalen Transitionspfaden zur Nachhaltigkeit“. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Event: Deutscher Kongress der Geographie
Year: 2015 - „Micro-dynamics and institutional change in regional transition paths to sustainability”. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Strambach, Simone
Event: 4th Global Conference on Economic Geography
Year: 2014 - „Transition pathways to sustainability – an investigation of interdependent regional system dynamics”. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pflitsch, Gesa; Brenner, Thomas
Event: Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Regionalwissenschaften