D1.8 - Designing the PSL tool - 103

To support citizens in measuring and reducing their ecological impact, the PSLifestyle project has been working on an easy-to-use and solution-oriented tool. The PSL tool, which will be introduced to the public in late summer 2023, is in the final development rounds and will enable citizens across Europe to take up more sustainable lifestyles through personalised suggestions for everyday actions.

The development of the PSL tool has taken place collaboratively with European citizens (the tool’s target audience) through citizen science labs (CSLs) in 8 European countries: Estonia, Finland, Greece, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Turkey. In the last round of the CSLs meetings, participants had the chance to get to know and work with the latest version of the PSL tool as well as create plans on how to make their lifestyles more sustainable. Moreover, CSL participants had the chance to exchange on barriers and opportunities towards more sustainable lifestyle patterns, an exchange that was driven by a strong local perspective, boiled down to the day-to-day reality of citizens and their local/regional contexts. One of the key goals of the PSL tool is to achieve a supportive and engaging environment for its users. Therefore, in addition to exchanges on the content side, participants also discussed about their impressions on some of the PSL tool’s features that allow for such an environment.

This report provides a summary of the last round of the PSLifestyle CSLs meetings (i.e., in this report referred to as meeting 5 and 6) and the exchanges with European citizens on the afore-mentioned topics.

Publication Date: 24 Oct 2023

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