The Impact of Geographical Enablers and Barriers on the Scaling of Grassroots Innovation Initiatives
This SHARED GREEN DEAL report explores how to scale successful grassroots sustainability initiatives across Europe. Analysing 24 social experiments, it identifies how local conditions, networks, and policies influence their transformative potential.
The specific contextual factors — such as institutional structures, social networks, and available resources — vary across regions and influence how initiatives’ activities are received and adopted, with policies being a central cornerstone to...:
... empower grassroots initiatives as catalysts for systemic change ... recognise initiatives as valuable tools for experimentation and learning ... foster institutional learning from grassroots initiatives ... enhance citizen participation, particularly among lower-income groups ... enable context-sensitive scaling of grassroots initiatives ... strengthen local governance capacities to address spatial inequalities
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For further details please contact co-leads Professor Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Professor Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.