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Bottom-up usually refers to citizen-led activities where citizens collaborate and themselves keep control of the aims, the means, and the actual implementation of their activities.

Circular economy refers to a system that encourages the reuse, recycling and refurbishment of products and materials such that there is minimum use of primary resources. The aim is to establish environmentally friendly production and consumption behaviour by minimising waste generation.

Transport poverty refers to the ways in which socioeconomic conditions affect everyday mobility and people’s access to transport. If someone is transport poor, it means that a person lacks mobility recourses to access work, education, health, and social networks.

Behavioural change defines a change in the behaviour of an individual or a group. This change can be temporary, long-term, or permanent. The question of behavioural change and, more generally, changing lifestyles is a key issue in the ecological transition.

Transformation has become a key word in the sustainability debate. What does sustainability transformation mean? What hinders and what enables transformation?

Promoting sustainable food consumption choices is one of the priorities of the European Green Deal. But to understand food choices, we need to increase our understanding of values, priorities, obstacles and challenges faced by different social groups and across cultures and countries in Europe and beyond.

The adoption of energy-efficiency measures in micro/smaller SMEs is not only important to help mitigate the crucial challenge of climate change, but also to enable the survival of the European business fabric and economy.

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, we all saw our cities deserted for a few weeks, without the traffic that usually engulfs and suffocates them day and night. We hoped that the crisis would represent an opportunity to rethink urban mobility, in a transition towards more sustainable alternatives.

How can we better integrate a gender+ perspective into our exploration of social inequalities in the context of the climate crisis and the Green Deal? What can we learn from existing feminist methodologies about asking better questions, designing more robust methods, and refining our data analysis?