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Over the last 25 years, the European Union has been solidly committed to making its cities and local communities more sustainable. Indeed, European communities, cities and regions have engaged in Local Sustainability Transition (LST), making the EU a laboratory for sustainable solutions, including the socio-technical aspects of transition. In this context, the CASTAL project consolidates over 500 European case studies on LST (only grey literature) into a centralised digital repository: the Case Studies Atlas of Local Sustainability Transition (CASTAL), a new digital research tool that collects FAIR-compliant case studies (mainly licensed under CC BY). CASTAL contributes to Open Science and EOSC by enabling future research and the exploitation of research results by researchers from SSH and other disciplines, as well as local authorities, businesses, and citizens. The project is supported by 11 European organisations, including universities and research institutes, networks of academic institutions, cities, regions and communities (over 20 relevant projects), that have expressed their interest in the results of CASTAL.
Over the last 25 years, the European Union has been solidly committed to making its cities and local communities more sustainable. Indeed, European communities, cities and regions have engaged in Local Sustainability Transition (LST), making the EU a laboratory for sustainable solutions, including the socio-technical aspects of transition. In this context, the CASTAL project consolidates over 500 European case studies on LST (only grey literature) into a centralised digital repository: the Case Studies Atlas of Local Sustainability Transition (CASTAL), a new digital research tool that collects FAIR-compliant case studies (mainly licensed under CC BY). CASTAL contributes to Open Science and EOSC by enabling future research and the exploitation of research results by researchers from SSH and other disciplines, as well as local authorities, businesses, and citizens. The project is supported by 11 European organisations, including universities and research institutes, networks of academic institutions, cities, regions and communities (over 20 relevant projects), that have expressed their interest in the results of CASTAL.
Project Info
Project Info
CASTAL is funded by OSCARS project in the framework of the Horizon Europe Programme - Grant Agreement 101129751
Start date:
01 October 2024
Project duration:
24 months
Partners:
Knowledge and Innovation Srls - K&I (coordinator)
University of Milan-Bicocca through DASSI - Data Archive for Social Sciences in Italy (data curation)
Challenge
Despite producing a massive corpus of knowledge on Local Sustainability Transition LST in Europe, there are still several difficulties in its real exploitation for further research purposes: the fragmentation of knowledge and data; the lack of archives to store and preserve knowledge and data produced; the lack of sufficient attempts to organise data collected and knowledge produced across cases; the difficulty of cumulating data on the same cases from different studies.
Solution
Through the creation of the Case Studies Atlas on LST, CASTAL aims to provide, through a dedicated web portal, an accessible and updatable tool containing basic information, summaries and links to approximately 500 case studies.
Scientific Impacts
The CASTAL Atlas is intended as a tool for supporting and developing the scientific knowledge according to three different levels: Advancing Open Science; Advancing the Capacity to study Local Sustainability Transitions (LST); Advancing the knowledge on specific topics of LST. The project will promote secondary studies using CASTAL as a data source and develop web services and guidelines for updating the Atlas.
Contacts
Contacts
Conoscenza e Innovazione Srls
Via Guido Reni, 56
00196 Roma
CF e P.IVA 13938821009
conoscenzaeinnovazione.srls@legalmail.it
Funded by European Union in the framework of the Horizon Europe Programme - Grant Agreement 101129751
Funded by European Union in the framework of the Horizon Europe Programme - Grant Agreement 101129751
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