Result description
T6 is offering a service of socio-economic impact assessment to accompany any given stakeholder engagement or citzen science activity. By conducting a flexible and adaptable socioeconomic impact assessment, T6 offers to a potential client (e.g. a private and public organisation) a dedicated assessment on the benefits (e.g., how an activity undertaken is going to benefit the users, at which costs) engagement activities. Based on the socioeconomic impact assessment, T6 is also able to provide policy recommendations for a variety of stakeholders around a given topic for which the socio-economic impact assessment was performed, e.g. on the awareness on air quailty and the relation to climate change. T6 is also able to offer accompanying measures for the implementation of the policies such as co-designing of policies with local stakeholders and policy analysis of related policies active in other countries.
The social analysis of the Living Lab engagement activities was performed by using qualitative methods including surveys and a questionnaire. The results showed that LL engagement activities contributed – even though at different degrees – and raised awareness around urban air quality and the necessity for taking action to reduce air pollution across individuals, communities, and policy-makers. Here some examples of results:
- Awareness and learning: the majority of participants declared to have increased their awareness on air pollution (65% in the behavioural interventions);
- Behavioural change: 23% participants in CS activities declared to have changed behaviour after using the sensors to avoid exposure to air pollution; 37% of participants into behavioural interventions changed behaviour;
- Policies: iSCAPE activities provided policy-makers with a better understanding of the opportunities for considering PCSs into existing air quality policies.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- We are sharing our knowledge
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Others/ No specific audience
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA