Indicators and Quantitative Tools for Improving the Process of Sustainability Impact Assessment

Project Information

I.Q.TOOLS

Grant agreement ID: 502078

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2004

End date 30 June 2006

Funded under

• Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 439 227,00

EU contribution € 1 232 998,00

Coordinated by

ZENTRUM FÜR EUROPÄISCHE WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG GMBH (ZEW) MANNHEIM
Germany

Objective

I.Q. Tools aims to give an evaluation of the policy at the initial stage of the proposal: given the policy draft produced by the Commission, with the I.Q. Tools it is possible to assess the potential effects of the policy on the three dimensions of sustainability if these effects lead to the sustainable objectives or not and the significance of these impacts. The objectives of the project can be characterised by the three key outputs. Output 1 is an indicator review and a list of key indicators for priority areas. This includes a review of existing assessment practices that try to integrate more than one dimension of sustainable development. Output 2 provides a decision-support tool for SIA. The specific decision support tools will be a desktop software including-

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software

Programme(s)

• FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• POLICIES-3.4 - Forecasting and developing innovative policies for sustainability in the medium and long term

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-SSP-1
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

ZENTRUM FÜR EUROPÄISCHE WIRTSCHAFTSFORSCHUNG GMBH (ZEW) MANNHEIM

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: L 7, 1 ; MANNHEIM ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (6)

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sussex House ; FALMER, BRIGHTON
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AVANZI SRL

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Bassano del Grappa 22 ; MILANO
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JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue de la Loi 200 ; BRUSSELS
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INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 28 Queen Anne´s Gate ; LONDON
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FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Der Kanzler, Zentrale Universitätsverwaltung, Kaiserwerther Str. 16-18 ; BERLIN
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RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Seminarstrasse 2 ; HEIDELBERG
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