Objective
The TealHelix advances the state-of-the-art by proposing a more precise and targeted approach – empowerment through personalization and inclusion. Using the underlying logic of motivational matching, we will develop a number of new labeling approaches and digital social innovations to guide and improve consumer decision-making. Such an approach will also enable us to address resistance to sustainability ideas and tailor our interventions to the heterogeneity in individual needs of vulnerable consumers. Combining insights from life cycle, social and economic environments analysis, measurement, and consumer behavior theories, we will develop a new measure to assess how individual and planetary preferences for various sustainability dimensions can be aligned to reach sustainability goals. Next, we will test a number of means of transmission: traditional labeling approaches, digital and brick-and-mortar retail labeling approaches, and smart labeling approaches. To sustain and scale the change, we will develop integrity guidelines and new sustainability information provision standards for the industry. We will leverage the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary competencies of the consortium in marketing, consumer behavior, psychology, environmental, information sciences, as well as in communication, retailing, and standard-setting industries. The project will generate multiple novel methods to study labeling approaches and original empirical evidence through machine learning-based 'big data' analysis, large-scale surveys, experience-sampling and micro-level experiments. Finally, we will integrate the findings into digital social innovations powered by AI tools to support labeling solutions. As a result, we will provide a deeper understanding of how various external environments shape attitudes and beliefs towards food sustainability labeling, how to motivate consumers to follow sustainable labeling guidelines, and how to include the ones who are in greatest need.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
3000 Leuven
Belgium
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Participants (15)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1060 SAINT GILLES
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
01513 Vilnius
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LT-08112 VILNIUS
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07170 Vilnius
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1021 RIGA
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02-672 WARSZAWA
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00732 WARSZAWA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
540 06 Thessaloniki
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106 82 ATHINA
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9712CP Groningen
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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50825 Koln
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1180 Wien
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2000 Frederiksberg
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
6002 Luzern
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