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Work package 1 Project Management
WP1 will ensure that high scientific quality and high impact results are achieved, in an efficient, cost-effective way and by minimizing risks. It will ensure the control of the timely evolution of the project, through the control of milestones and deliverables. It will also facilitate interaction among the project members through a series of project meetings, workshops and video-conferences.	Leader: Ricardo García Mira University of A Coruna, Spain Contact:
Work package 2 Knowledge co-production and scientific integration
WP2 faces a towfold task of integrating knowledge and data gathered in the project, and integrating various domains of discourse within and outwith research, exploring contexts in which knowledge is created about how we transform lifestyles and the economy to make them more sustainable. Integration of datasets using OWL ontologies will be combined with the conceptualisation of lifestyles and the economy as they relate to the areas of activity of the project. It will also develop a strategy to analyze the research impact of stakeholder engagement across the research process.	Leader: Gary Polhill James Hutton Institute – JHI, UK Contact:
Work package 3 Development of theoretical conceptualizations and models
WP3 will put together relevant knowledge systems in different social sciences (e.g., psychology, political science, economics) to develop new and integrated conceptualizations of what drives lifestyle preferences and choices in the direction of social, economic and environmental sustainability. Cross-cutting issues, such as time-use and associated consumption patterns will be also focused on. Finally, a meta-analytic approach to empirically estimate the role of different factors at the basis of sustainable lifestyles will be adopted, to estimate robust predictor-criterion relations, and to disentangle inconsistent literature findings, will be undertaken.	Leader: Giuseppe Carrus University of Roma Tre – UNIROMA3 Contact:
Work package 4 Factors influencing lifestyle patterns
The overall objective of WP4 is to provide an empirically-grounded understanding of patterns of time-use and associated consumption patterns, on the factors determining these patterns, as well as on the trade-offs and spillovers between time-use categories, levels of consumption and relevant internal and external constraints. It will thus contribute to the testing and refining of theoretical models; provide data for the economic and agent-based simulations; provide relevant information on time-use, consumption and demographic aspects as key dimensions of lifestyle segmentation.	Leader: Adina Dumitru University of A Coruna, Spain Contact:
Work package 5 Case studies in sustainable lifestyles and consumption initiatives
In seven regions across Europe we analyse sustainable lifestyle initiatives to better understand how and why such initiatives develop and how adherence to those initiatives changes their members’ lifestyles, ecological footprints, and wellbeing. We want to identify those lifestyle elements that can be taken up in regional policies or even beyond. Together with people from those initiatives, policymaking bodies, and with further citizens, we want to identify ways how our analysis can be a useful basis for a more generalised and widespread transition to sustainability. Case studies will cover the areas of: work-leisure balance, energy use in households, mobility, food consumption, construction and housing, as well as consumption of manufactured goods.	Leader: Felix Rauschmayer Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany Contact:
Work package 6 Integrated modelling, governance designs and policy analysis
WP6 will focus on testing models of lifestyle change and transitions to a green economy, will test and refine models of transitions to sustainable lifestyles and a green economy by combining micro- and macro-economic modelling with agent-based modelling in the exploration of mechanisms of change, transition stages within equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium perspectives, tipping points and feedback loops among stages and levels of change. It will use both micro and macroeconomics to focus on the individual household utility maximisation problem and scale this up within a macro-economic model to account for firms, the role of government and macro variables such as population growth, economic growth and technology change. Agent-based modelling relates to the simulations that will be carried out both at the micro and macro scale., thus three approaches are inter-related and serve to help answer the questions we have set ourselves, such as what is the optimal lifestyle(s) and how can it (they) be replicated across the population under various scenarios and policy interventions.	Leader: Michael Finus University of Bath, UK Contact:
Work package 7 Environmental impact and economic alternatives
WP7 will study environmental impacts and economic alternatives of present and potential future lifestyle and economic alternatives will provide insights into which lifestyles are more or less sustainable from a multi-dimensional resource and environment perspective and into which lifestyle changes would contribute significantly to achieving the EU’s sustainability targets; will evaluate how changes in technology and alternative economic system arrangements following the implementation of climate, resource efficiency and green economy policies would affect the environmental sustainability of different lifestyles and the necessity and efficacy of lifestyle change for achieving sustainability objectives and will provide assessments and assessment tools instrumental for the case studies.	Leader: Konstatin Stadler Norwegian University of Science and Technology Contact:
Work package 8 Dissemination and stakeholder involvement
WP8 will develop and implement the communication, dissemination and stakeholder involvement strategy of the project which will target relevant societal groups such as: European, regional and local policy-makers, business and civil society, the scientific community and citizens in general. It will do so through a combination of internet-based and more traditional mass-media presentations, innovative audio-visual media presentations and regular website, newsletter and blog updates; through a series of European and regional stakeholder workshops; and through the use of scientific media.	Leader: Moritz Kammerlander Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI), Vienna Contact:

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