Social Psychology of Transitions towards Sustainability Laboratory

• Currently, it is developing a specialisation area on the social aspects of the energy transition and its social impact in Europe, through its role as coordinator of the European ENTRANCES Consortium, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme for the period 2020–2023, and the impact of climate change on human health, through participation in the European TRIGGER Consortium, funded by the Horizon Europe programme for the period 2022–2027.

• Over the past fifteen years, the Laboratory has coordinated and taken part in many national and European research projects, including programmes funded by the European Union: FP7, Horizon-2020 and Horizon-Europe.

• Its members have long-standing experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods, as well as in methodologies related to the development of participatory and retrospective scenarios.

• The Laboratory has also combined applied research with teaching and training for organisations and lawmakers to incorporate sustainability principles into their organisations.

• The researchers are active members of the International Association for People-Environment Studies – IAPS and the International Association of Applied Psychology.

Funded by the European Union through the FP7 and Horizon 2020 (now Horizon Europe) research and innovation programmes, the following projects have been carried out at the Social Psychology Laboratory, which acted as the consortium’s coordinators:

• LOCAW Project: “Low Carbon at Work” (2011–2013);
• The GLAMURS project “Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability” (2014–2016); and
• ENTRANCES project on the transition to clean energy (2020–2023), currently at the stage of implementing results and publishing reports.

It has also participated, under the sponsorship of the European Framework Programme FP7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, as a partner in the respective European consortia, in the following projects:

• TRIGGER project on solutions to reduce climate-related health threats, part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe R&D programme; (2022–2027, currently underway).
• TRANSIT project “Theory of Transformative Social Innovation” to analyse community empowerment and disempowerment in social action and innovation (2014–2017).
• CONNECTING NATURE project “COproductioN with NaturE for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance” (2017–2022); and
• SMARTEES project “Social Innovation Modelling Approaches to Realizing Transition to Energy Efficiency and Sustainability” (2018–2022).