Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SHARED GREEN DEAL (SHARED GREEN DEAL: Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL)
Período documentado: 2023-02-01 hasta 2024-01-31
The project has five objectives.
• Objective 1: Undertake transdisciplinary action research through ‘social experiments’ that target both individuals and collectives in complementary ways, expanding opportunities for behavioural change whilst accounting for social and cultural dimensions
• Objective 2: Facilitate two-way dialogue and participatory mechanisms to ensure the needs and desires of both citizen and professional stakeholders are taken into account and built into the design of Green Deal initiatives.
• Objective 3: Create cross-stakeholder network that acts as gateway (for EC and others) to SSH policy evidence for social change processes across all Green Deal priorities.
• Objective 4: Disseminate findings in accessible ways, to facilitate Green Deal delivery.
• Objective 5: Through embedding ambitious RRI principles and impact evaluations, create processes to ensure that benefits of the Green Deal are shared in a just and equitable way, including for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and actors affected by economic changes.
The second year focused on the co-creation and implementation of our six experiment streams. Our streams are: preserving biodiversity, energy-efficient renovations, clean energy, sustainable mobility, sustainable food, and circular economy. With input gained from the European Commission, the consortium produced Implementation Plans, which then fed into the successful recruitment of subcontractors (or what we call local partners), who would help us deliver on these implementation plans. We received a considerable amount of interest from NGOs and municipalities, with 950+ and 349 submitting Expressions of Interest and Final Applications respectively. Subsequently, 24 local partners were selected, trained and closely collaborated with.
Supporting cross-cutting work was also delivered. For instance, Work Package 6 on evaluation produced two Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) deliverables, which defined how our project considered responsibility and set out plans for how we will achieve this internally within the consortium and also externally with participants and our local partners. Work Package 8 on policy and governance additionally did a documentary analysis of all key EC policy documents connected to the EU Green Deal, which provides excellent foundations for us to ensure that our work remains policy-relevant moving forward. A range of communications (WP9), coordination (WP10), and ethics (WP11) deliverables were also successfully submitted.