Welcome,

I'm Rafael Labanino, political scientist, research fellow at the Sustainable Mobilities research group, University of Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU), Germany and at the Institute of Forest, Environmental, and Natural Resource Policy, Universtity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria.  

On this website you can find my scholarly work and datasets, as well as my newspaper articles, blogposts, podcasts, and interviews. You can also listen to my invited talks and lectures.

In the past 14 years I have been conducting research with international and federal research consortia at top universities in Germany and Switzerland, and with international organizations in five broad areas: 

• sustainable mobility and mobility transformation

• stakeholder engagement in skills policy (policymaking, implementation, and governance) 

• interest groups politics and lobbying in energy policy, higher education and healthcare policy in Central and Eastern Europe with a focus on the context of post-communist transitions and democratic backsliding 

• the politics of liberalization in the OECD and EU member states since the first oil crisis in 1973 across 12 economic and social policy fields 

• educational indicator development for the education for sustainable development in the German school system and teacher training

If you'd have any questions about my research, contact me per e-mail at rafael.labanino@hfwu.de.