ACCTING mobilised research experimentation and innovation based on an interdisciplinary methodological framework to advance a gender-equal, inclusive and socially just European Green Deal. Specifically focusing on inequalities produced and reproduced in the context of Green Deal policies, ACCTING collected new data on Green Deal policy interventions at individual, organisational, community, and societal levels. Research activities were defined along eight thematic and interdisciplinary research lines:
Climate Action:
1.Valorising local knowledge on natural hazards Biodiversity:
2.Land use restrictions
Clean energy:
3.Energy poverty
4.EEMs/SMEs
Farm to fork:
5. Food security
6. Food values
Sustainable mobility:
7.Transport poverty
8.Post-lockdown transport choices
On this basis, research activities ACCTING developed the theoretical and methodological framework to ensure the integration of the perspectives of complexity and intersectionality. It involved an extensive mapping and comparative analysis of almost 700 bottom-up environmental initiatives, identifying local authorities, NGOs, CSOs and other actors in 34 countries. In parallel, the eight thematic and interdisciplinary research lines were developed. The successful implementation of the first of the two research cycles of qualitative data collection resulted in 400 narrative interviews gathered through fieldwork in 14 countries along the eight research lines, published in Open Access. The final stage involved the second research cycle of case studies, which saw 435 interviews, leading into synthesised and comparative analyses of the two research cycles. At the same time, the multi-sectoral workshops - Open Studios - were developed and conducted, leveraging the research results and co-creating ideas and concepts for innovative solutions, similarly in two cycles. The knowledge and insights produced have been used to produce two rounds of operational recommendations, published as Factsheets, and research agendas, and to launch, implement, monitor and evaluate ten pilot actions, making the project results even more visible and concrete, and to test innovative solutions to advance behavioural change for an inclusive and equal European Green Deal.
