D1.6 Specifications of the PSLifestyle Application and Dataset

In 2017, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra developed a digital tool for citizens to understand the impacts of their lifestyle and consumption habbits called the “Lifestyle Test. After taking the test, the citizens were presented with a series of alternative lifestyle options with associated emission reductions. The test has been done over a million times in Finland.

Following the first application, the Horizon 2020 project PSLifestyle, aims at expanding the user base and potential impact of the tool by improving it with new features and adapting it to the context of eight European countries: Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, and Turkey.

This report provides an overview of the process of localizing the first version of the online tool. The contextualization of the tool is essential since the tool needs to reflect different local realities around Europe, for example, climate, social norms, and trends. In addition, by taking feedback from a large number of diverse set of citizens could also increase the acceptability of the tool in the project partners local contexts.

In this document, we describe the process taken to localise the tool, as well as the most important takeaways which were produced by the process itself which would further help in later iterations of citizen outreach and development of the tool.

Publication Date: 05 Aug 2022

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