SOCIO-BEE project
Wearables and droneS fOr CIty Socio-Environmental Observations and BEhavioral ChangE
About the project
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
1) the capacity of communities to adopt more sustainable behaviours aligned with environmental policy objectives, breaking the cognitive myopia
2) 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.
Project characteristics
Type of project: European
Duration: 2021 – 2024
Knowledge areas: social innovation, co-creation, citizen science, technology, air quality monitoring, environment
Project objectives
The SOCIO-BEE project aims to design, deploy and validate a next-generation CS platform for citizens’ wearable-based modules for air quality observation, supported by local decision-makers and action groups.
SOCIO-BEE aims to realize sustainable, scalable, and replicable/spreadable experiments, who are co-created. SOCIO-BEE will develop and implement a co-creation module for facilitating citizen science.Users will be able to select among several customizable campaigning blueprints each of which will entail such tools for delivering engagement programmes and campaigns that genuinely enable communities to influence decision making for reducing pollution levels in cities and creating trust between stakeholders.
This SOCIO-BEE idea is emphasised in this project through the metaphor of bees’ behaviour (with queens, worker and drone bees), interested stakeholders (honey bears) and the Citizen Science hives that will be tested in three different pilot sites and with different population: young adults, elderly people and everyday commuters.
Ibercivis' role in the project
The Ibercivis Foundation is part of the SOCIO-BEE project consortium, actively participating in the co-design process of the project narrative, as well as the engagement strategies that will be implemented in the pilot projects: Spain (Zaragoza), Italy (Ancona) and Greece (Marousi).
In addition, it will deploy together with the Zaragoza City Council and the Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation the pilot activities in the city of Zaragoza, where the citizen science methodology for measuring air quality through the wearable devices that the project has designed will be tested.
The foundation will participate in communication and dissemination activities of the project results, graphic design, hosting and web development.
Methodologies and technologies used
Citizen laboratories, co-creation sessions, workshops, design of educational activities.
Communication and engagement activities.
Project information
Project website: https://socio-bee.eu/
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