Descripción del proyecto
La ciencia ciudadana detrás de los comportamientos a favor del medio ambiente
Los ciudadanos y sus comunidades, en particular las vulnerables al impacto del cambio climático, pueden desempeñar un papel importante a la hora de alcanzar la neutralidad climática. Unos científicos están desarrollando herramientas sociales innovadoras para empoderar a las comunidades para que adopten acciones a favor del medio ambiente y comportamientos sostenibles alineados con la política medioambiental. En el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos SOCIO-BEE, inspirado en la metáfora de la abeja (abejas obreras y zánganos como principales «agentes de la ciencia ciudadana»), se estudiará la facilitación de estructuras para aumentar el compromiso y la concienciación de la ciudadanía respecto al cambio climático a través de la experimentación y la vigilancia del medio ambiente. El proyecto tiene como objetivo desarrollar innovaciones tecnológicas de bajo coste e instrumentos que contribuirán de forma tangible a la campaña general a favor del clima, con un enfoque principal en la mejora de la calidad del aire en las zonas urbanas.
Objetivo
SOCIO-BEE proposes that community engagement and social innovation combined with Citizen Science (CS) through emerging technologies and playful interaction can bridge the gap between the capacity of communities to adopt more sustainable behaviours aligned with environmental policy objectives and between the citizen intentions and the real behaviour to act in favour of the environment (in this project, to reduce air pollution). Furthermore, community engagement can raise other citizens’ awareness of climate change and their own responses to it, through experimentation, better monitoring, and observation of the environment. This idea is emphasised in this project through the metaphor of bees’ behaviour (with queens, working and drone bees as main CS actors), interested stakeholders that aim at learning from results of CS evidence-based research (honey bears) and the Citizen Science hives as incubators of CS ideas and projects that will be tested in three different pilot sites (Ancona, Marousi and Ancona) and with different population: elderly people, everyday commuters and young adults, respectively. The SOCIO-BEE project ambitions the scalable activation of changes in citizens’ behaviour in support of pro-environment action groups, local sponsors, voluntary sector and policies in cities. This process will be carried out through low-cost technological innovations (CS enablers within the SOCIO BEE platform), together with the creation of proper instruments for institutions (Whitebook and toolkits with recommendations) that will contribute to the replication, upscaling, massive adoption and to the duration of the SOCIO-BEE project. The solution sustainability and maximum outreach will be ensured by proposing a set of public-private partnerships schemes and innovative targeted communication means to streamline exploitation and accessibility to the project impacts.
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-LC-GD-2020-3
Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Grecia