Project: An approach for innovative Climate Learning, Evaluation and Action in Neighbourhoods – CLEAN cultures

Acronym	CLEAN Cultures (Reference Number: JTC-2019_110)
Duration	01/12/2020 - 30/11/2023
Project Topic	CLEANcultures investigates, based on existing knowledge and practical experience from various disciplines, how broadening the perspective at a systemic micro-level triggers action and how this kind of transformative learning encourages political bottom-up driven decisions. At the core of our approach, we use cases in different countries and contexts to explore how, at neighborhood level, new perspectives and solutions for existing local climate-relevant problems can be developed via novel learning and exchange processes. In the design of this learning approach, we set unusual, creative thematic intervention impulses to provide neighborhoods not only with facts but to trigger their emotions and attitudes. We use local knowledge, challenge accepted norms, explore the cultural background of energy practices and stimulate the co-creation of cultures/narratives of change. This learning process at micro level allows a better understanding of small-scale societal systems dynamics, in terms of climate change awareness, empowerment and decision making in transforming processes
Project Results (after finalisation)	Project results at three levels: First, an effective change in perspectives and/or decision making at the specific neighborhoods’ level; second, a generic transferable methodology for stimulating such processes in other neighborhoods; third, a set of best practice recommendations for the micro- and meso-level of peopleoriented policy making to be fed into the post-COP21 knowledge.
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Network	JPI Climate
Call	2019 Call SOLSTICE

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	JOANNEUM RESEARCH	Coordinator	Austria
2	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland	Partner	Finland
3	University Roma Tre	Partner	Italy
4	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Partner	Norway