I. Development of an overall quantification and monetisation concept for multiple impacts (MI) as a basis for the online calculation tool (MICATool). This includes a) the categorisation of the MI in in the three overarching categories of social, economic and environmental impacts b) the development of factsheets for 23 impacts including a specification of the scope of impact, an impact pathway figure illustrating the causal chain, a discussion of potential overlaps with other impacts, the quantification and monetization method and calculation steps applied, a discussion of methodological challenges and limitations, a list of data requirements, and finally the impact factor or function that has been incorporated in the MICATool to quantify the respective indicator.
II. Development of a methodological framework and concepts for the aggregation of monetary values of the multiple impacts assessed and for conducting a comprehensive cost-benefits analysis (CBA).
III. Development of the MICATool split up into a back-end and a front-end. The latter is publicly available on the MICAT website and can be used either with own data or with default data, which are already stored in the tool. The tool also includes a detailed documentation , where the methodology and workflow of the MICATool is explained.
IV. Development of a core stakeholders’ engagement strategy for the three governance levels taken into account in the MICAT project (local, national, EU). Before the relevant stakeholders have been identified, three cities and three EU Member states have been chosen which directly participate in the MICATool and deliver the necessary input data. At the local level, the following cities have been selected in a tender process: Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain), Calvià (Mallorca, Spain) and Tartu (Tartumaa, Estonia). At the national level, the following Member States have been chosen: Germany, Italy, and Poland. Three workshops have been taken place at each of these levels which accompagnied the selection of the indicators and the developement of MICATool in order to make it as user-friendly as possible.
V. Development of the communication, dissemination and exploitation strategy for the MICAT project. In the beginning of the project, this strategy was laid down in a plan, which was updated one time. Major products for project communication and dissemination as well as the exploitation of the MICAT results were: newsletters, social media channels, a project brochure, infographics and posters, journal articles, the stakeholder workshops mentioned above, 5 webinar series, 10 policy briefs, 8 podcasts, 5 videos produced and finally the presentation of MICAT results at the final conference.
