Project description
The citizen science behind pro-environment behaviours
Citizens and their communities, particularly those that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, can play an important role in achieving climate neutrality. Scientists are developing social innovation tools to empower communities to adopt pro-environment actions and sustainable behaviours aligned with environmental policy. Inspired by the bee metaphor (worker and drone bees as main 'citizen science actors'), EU-funded SOCIO-BEE will study the facilitation of structures to increase citizen engagement and awareness of climate change through experimentation and monitoring of the environment. The project aims to develop low-cost technological innovations and instruments that will tangibly contribute to the overall pro-climate campaign, with primary focus on improving air-quality in urban areas.
Objective
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.
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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Participants (17)
152 32 CHALANDRI ATHINA
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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48007 Bilbao
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3511 RV Utrecht
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35122 Padova
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10115 Berlin
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08907 Hospitalet de Llobregat
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50003 Zaragoza
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50018 Zaragoza
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50071 Zaragoza
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15124 Ammaroussion
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2027 Kjeller
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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60124 Ancona
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60121 Ancona
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30562 Ceuti
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1400 Nivelles
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