Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel said:
I am grateful to the research community for their enthusiastic response to the Horizon 2020 European Green Deal call. I am excited to see how they are embarking on the road to invent concrete solutions for a transition to a climate-neutral society and a sustainable recovery. I am looking forward to see what concrete benefits the projects selected for funding will bring into the everyday life of Europeans.
In light of the COP26, it's particularly important to reach the net-zero objectives in different areas.
Only two projects were funded related the particular topic LC-GD-10-2-2020 "Behavioural, social and cultural change for the Green Deal" - ZSI is partner in one of them: ACCTING.
Title: AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal
ACCTING mobilizes research experimentation and innovation to advance an inclusive and socially just European Green Deal, where nobody is left behind. It specifically focuses on inequalities produced and reproduced in the context of Green Deal policy and interventions. The overall objectives are to:-Understand the impact of Green Deal policy initiatives on individual and collective behaviours with specific attention to vulnerable groups.-Provide evidence and empower policymakers and other stakeholders to anticipate policy responses, the potential negative impacts on inequalities, and to mitigate such impacts in Green Deal decision-making;-Co-creatively design and implement pilot actions to be deployed by policymakers and stakeholders in the policy domains of the Green Deal with the ambition to reduce or prevent inequalities and promote participation and social justice. Building on previous research initiatives, ACCTING proposes an interdisciplinary conceptual and methodological framework, inspired by strategic policy design-thinking. It collects new data on Green Deal policy interventions at individual, community, organisational and societal levels. Starting with an extensive mapping and comparative analysis of bottom-up environmental initiatives in 34 countries, including the collection of 410 narratives followed by 41 experimental studies from eight research lines, results are fed into Open Studios to co-create innovative solutions. Results are used for further experimentation, including through pilot actions with mass implementation and high impact potential. ACCTING combines activities devoted to experimental research and innovation, action research, co-creation of sustainable impact, robust impact evaluation and wide disseminations. It relies on its consortium of 12 European partners with experience of 50+ EU funded projects, multidisciplinary teams, involving experts from multi-sectoral networks and stakeholders.
- FONDATION EUROPEENNE DE LA SCIENCE
- ZENTRUM FUR SOZIALE INNOVATION GMBH
- YELLOW WINDOW
- ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)
- VEREIN DER EUROPAEISCHEN BURGERWISSENSCHAFTEN -ECSA E.V.
- KENTRO EREVNON NOTIOANATOLIKIS EVROPIS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
- CONOSCENZA E INNOVAZIONE SOCIETA ARESPONSABILITA LIMITATA SEMPLIFICATA
- NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
- INSTITUTO DE GEOGRAFIA E ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITORIO DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
- UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI
- OREBRO UNIVERSITY
- SABANCI UNIVERSITESI
See page 99 on https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/research_and_innovation/events/documents/ec_rtd_green-deal-press-briefing-02.pdf
The European Green Deal is the Commission's blueprint and roadmap to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, with a sustainable economy that leaves no one behind. The Commission launched 2020 the €1 billion Horizon 2020 call with a view to mobilise the European research and innovation community and contribute to this central priority of the Commission. The call addressed directly the main priorities of the Green Deal and set a pathway for additional, related research and innovation initiatives in the context of Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme 2021-2027.
More information:
Event: Horizon 2020 European Green Deal call: results and ambitions for the future
European Green Deal Research and Innovation Call (factsheet October 2021)
