HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01
2025 - 2027
Kutatásvezetők: Messing Vera, Ságvári Bence
Projekt résztvevő: Horzsa Gergely
The SoGreen project is actively enhancing the capacities of four leading European social science infrastructures—ESS ERIC, SHARE ERIC, GGP, and GUIDE—along with their partners and affiliated entities across Europe, to study the social aspects of the green transition across generations and socioeconomic groups. Using a life-course perspective, the project is developing new services, tools, and questionnaire modules to improve data collection and analysis on the societal impacts of environmental change.
A central innovation is the Green Transition Questionnaire Module (Green Module), which will be integrated into the surveys of all four infrastructures, ensuring harmonized data collection. The project will also create visualization tools, geospatial data linkages, and a joint dissemination platform to make insights more accessible.
The SoGreen project recognizes that the green transition will bring significant social and economic transformations, affecting different generations and socioeconomic groups in various ways. The Green Transition Questionnaire Module (Green Module) will specifically address key challenges arising from climate change and sustainability policies, ensuring that data collection captures the social consequences of these shifts. Given the broad impact of the green transition on employment, social welfare, and inequality, the project will assess issues such as job polarization, changes in skill demands, energy poverty, and access to basic infrastructure like housing, transport, and digital connectivity. By doing so, SoGreen aims to contribute to the development of evidence-based welfare models that promote fairness and inclusivity in climate policies.
Furthermore, the project is fostering public engagement and transparency to support the success of climate policies. Many citizens lack awareness of climate risks or fear being unfairly impacted by environmental policies. To address this, the Knowledge Mobilisation Lab is facilitating dialogue between researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders, ensuring that climate strategies are not only socially just but also widely supported. Alongside this, new data collection and analytical tools are being deployed to fill knowledge gaps regarding the long-term socioeconomic effects of climate change, providing a comprehensive understanding of how different population groups experience the transition.
By integrating quantitative research, geospatial data, and innovative survey methodologies, SoGreen is significantly enhancing Europe’s capacity to monitor and manage the social dimensions of the green transition. Through methodological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, the project is actively advancing social science research on sustainability and deepening understanding of the green transition’s societal effects.