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The transition paths to overcome the climate and energy crisis face a significant structural challenge: predominant approaches are often excessively technocentric, ignoring local adaptation, cultural nuances, and the social fabric. Consequently, socioeconomic groups such as women, youth, the elderly, and energy-poor households are frequently excluded from climate strategies. <\/p>\n

Additionally, Local and Regional Authorities (LRA) often lack the cross-sectoral capacities and collaborative mechanisms necessary to design, implement, and evaluate effective transition policies within their territories.<\/p>\n

To address this issue, the LIFE-HANDS-ON<\/strong> project develops and implements an innovative life-long and participatory “learning-by-doing” method tailored to public administrations. The goal is to accelerate Just and Clean Energy Transition (CET) <\/strong>policies that are mission-oriented, cross-sectoral, and data-driven. <\/strong> <\/p>\n

The novel dynamics and practices will foster debates, iterative transdisciplinary learning, agreement reaching, awareness raising, and the evaluation and improvement in the implementation of innovative policies.<\/p>\n

This will be achieved by institutionalizing two meso-level governance institutions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Inter-departmental Working Groups within public authorities, enabling diverse departments (urbanism, social services, legal and financial, environmental, culture, etc) to reach cross-sectoral diagnosis, co-design shared policies and collaborate in implementation and evaluation.
Multi-stakeholder Assemblies gathering representatives from public authorities, social, cultural and economic local actors, and citizens\u2014including underrepresented groups\u2014to deliberate on energy policies with new approaches.<\/p>\n

To achieve this ambitious goal during its three-year execution, the project is structured around five specific objectives:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Multidisciplinary research: Combine SSH and STEM, to understand the current state of local policies and skills gaps in pilot and replicating authorities, as well as multi-stakeholder relations and the social perception of groups that are more distant from the climate consensus.
\u00b7 Hands-on capacity building: Strengthen the ongoing capabilities of the technical and political teams within the Inter-departamental Working Groups, training in dynamic capabilities to collaborate, understand problems and reach solutions in new ways and lead the orientation of the Multi-stakeholder Assemblies.
\u00b7 Foster diverse participation and collaboration: Leverage the combined influence of public institutions, citizens, communities, and private entities through the Assemblies. The aim is to empower these actors to tackle complex challenges and formulate transformative policies that prioritize both climate mitigation and adaptation from a justice perspective.
\u00b7 Demonstrate impact in pilot cities: Test this transversal and multi-actor model (the learning-by-doing method) in three pilot cases with diverse contexts and skill gaps (Parla in Spain, Vidin in Bulgaria, and Copenhagen in Denmark), implementing participatory methodologies for iterative monitoring and evaluation.
Drive dissemination and replication: Utilize the acquired capacities and new governance models from the pilots to strategically disseminate the project’s methodology and tools, replicating them in more than 35 municipalities across Europe. <\/p>\n

What will be the most relevant results?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The project actions are designed to leave an organizational legacy and tangible tools that accelerate change:<\/p>\n