SPREADing Sustainable Lifestyles – now and in the future

Think of the year 2050. How will our sustainable lives look forty years from now? How will we be living, consuming, moving, communicating, and caring for our young and elderly? How will we be maintaining or improving the quality of life of our ageing European society while at the same time reducing our levels of energy, transport and resource consumption? Visions of these and many other issues will be created within the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project. The project will be coordinated by the CSCP between January 2011 and December 2012. Different stakeholders are invited to participate in the development of scenarios for sustainable ways of living in the year 2050. Through the process recommendations will be developed for strategic action by policy makers and suggestions on how to establish sustainable lifestyles in Europe will be provided for business, the research community and society.

 

 

The project will engage civil society organisations, business, research and policymakers to collaboratively obtain an enhanced understanding of how to accomplish our sustainable lifestyles objectives. Interactive scenario-building, backcasting and road mapping techniques will be applied. The SPREAD project will:

 

  • Mobilise and analyse current knowledge, experience, and promising practices on sustainable lifestyles including issues related to health, welfare, equity and ageing. 
  • Visualise concepts, visions, ideas and actions for new models of sustainable living.

 

 

  • Backcast to identify needed actions and changes to arrive at a sustainable future in 2050. 
  • Develop a roadmap to provide action strategies for individuals, businesses, civil society, research, and policymakers to mainstream sustainable lifestyles within and across societies in Europe, now and in the future.
  • Preparation of policy and research recommendations that address the main challenges society faces in the pursuit of more sustainable lifestyles.
  • Collaborate among policy, research, business and society stakeholders to take stock of knowledge, build scenarios and backcast.
  • Host a people’s forum and an online community to facilitate citizen engagement and foster open stakeholder dialogue.

 

Select representatives from government, education and civil society organisations, as well as private sector organisations (Autostadt, Ferrero, Henkel, IKEA, Kraft Foods Europe GmbH, NOKIA, Turkish Business Council for Sustainable Development, Unilever) will fulfil a role as external advisors throughout the project.

 

External partners and individuals interested in sharing knowledge and exchanging experiences with us and others is invited to join. Come to meet us at our project events, find out more at www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu, or participate in an open online dialogue on sustainable lifestyles in our online community at www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu/community.


Further information

For more information visit: www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu

United Nations Environment Programme Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy