Assistant Professor @tilburglaw | sociology | law | planning | studying the European Green Deal and the Just Transition Mechanism

Joined July 2010
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In the light of what is going on in the world, a minor thing, but I am happy to announce that me and my team received a grant to study how marginalized communities are involved in, and affected by, policies related to the European Green Deal
How to engineer a climate transition that is fair for everyone? Michiel Stapper @EWStapper @TilburgLaw received 3.8 mln EU-funding @HorizonEU to find out how marginalized communities are affected. tilburguniversity.edu/curren…
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Michiel Stapper retweeted
🤝 A new policy brief by @EWStapper highlights innovative strategies from the @BOLSTER_EU project aimed at improving engagement with civil society organisations and marginalised communities during Just Transition processes. Read more: tinyurl.com/juedmr9a 🌱
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Michiel Stapper retweeted
📅⏰Join us on 20 November for the latest webinar in our series on ‘Navigating the just transition’. 🔓Our panellists will discuss the types of projects that can best unlock the transformative potential of the Just Transition Fund. Register to take part: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Michiel Stapper retweeted
Application deadline for this opportunity to come work with me on the theme of international legal expertise/performativity: today 23.59 CET.
If you are finishing/recently completed a PhD and interested in working on my new project re international legal expertise and management, apply, share, get in touch. Exciting times ahead: academictransfer.com/en/3327…
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While creepy Jesus was looking over me, I won the best teacher award y’all
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For @BOLSTER_EU we gathered community leaders from across Europe to talk about the European Green Deal and the Just Transition.
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The Romanian team designed a plan to repurpose abandoned industrial buildings into a green manufacturing hub:
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The ideas are often in line with priorities of the European Commission. However, these people often don’t have access to European funds. Because the don’t have the capacity or time to write proposals for tenders.
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Michiel Stapper retweeted
A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0
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For FEPS I wrote an analysis of 7 ‘just transition plans’. Those plans should help regions that are affected the most by the European Commission’s goal to make Europe climate neutral in 2050.
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What kind of justice can we expect from implementing the Territorial Just Transition Plans? We analysed the 💱economic, 🌱environmental & 🌹social aspects of the #TJTPs of 🇦🇹🇨🇾🇨🇿🇪🇪🇩🇪🇬🇷&🇸🇪to map the answer. Read our🆕policy brief bit.ly/RoadtoJustTransition by @EWStapper w/ FES
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But alternatives are possible within the just transition framework. Investments in education, child- and elderly care or energy communities.
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So hopefully this publication can start a discussion about alternative ways to achieve justice.
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Michiel Stapper retweeted
Almost a quarter of the population! A clear combination of environmental injustice and unawareness due to slow poisoning — Nearly 120 million people in US exposed to unhealthy levels of soot and smog – The Guardian #pollution #climate change #injustice theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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To make sure that more people will benefit from the transition, Estonia (with EU funds) invests in health care and social services in a disadvantaged region of Idu-Virumaa. sm-ee.translate.goog/uudised…

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Often climate policies benefit the already privileged. Strengthening the social fabric of areas that are hit hard by the goal to decarbonize is important.
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