Exploring themes of justice, vulnerability and inequality in social innovation processes for the European Green Deal

Report

Part of the Collection: Findings and Recommendations of the Secondary Data Analysis of the SHARED GREEN DEAL SSH Priority Themes

This publication investigates how justice, vulnerability, and inequality were addressed within the 24 local experiments in SHARED GREEN DEAL. Each local partner was supported with guidance on relevant vulnerable or marginalised groups to seek to include within their experiment, and many went beyond this ‘brief’ to ensure a diverse participant pool.

Each of these experiments generated a great deal of secondary data that was analysed, within this report, to illuminate the ways in which experiments dealt with issues of marginalisation, vulnerability and inequality. The core focus was on the ways in which innovations ensured procedural justice – that is, the ways in which participants from marginalised and vulnerable groups were included, the quality and depth of their participation and the extent to which they were able to actively shape the outcomes of the experiments.

Specific recommendations for policymakers and practitioners for a just European Green Deal are also presented in the report, expanding on inclusion, funding, long-term engagement, and support for grassroots organisations to ensure justice.

Exploring themes of justice, vulnerability and inequality in social innovation processes for the European Green Deal