Interviews with SHARED GREEN DEAL Experiment Participants - Circular Economy

The SHARED GREEN DEAL (Social sciences & Humanities for Achieving a Responsible, Equitable and Desirable GREEN DEAL) project aims to drive progress towards EU Green Deal targets. At the heart of this EU Horizon 2020 project are six streams of innovative, participatory social experiments focused on six Green Deal priority areas: Clean Energy, Circular Economy, Efficient Renovations, Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Food, and Preserving Biodiversity. Experiments for each of the six streams were implemented in four locations across Europe between April 2023 and June 2024. The experiments were led by local partners (NGOs and local, regional, or national governments). Whilst the activities undertaken by each of the local partners differed across experiment streams, a core component of each experiment was that different stakeholders were involved. Upon the completion of the SHARED GREEN DEAL experiments, each local partner conducted at least 10 interviews with participants involved in their experiment (totalling a minimum of 40 interviews in each stream, and ~240 interviews across the project). The purpose of these interviews was to learn more individuals' experiences of participating in the local experiment. The interviews were carried out in spring 2024. Within the Circular Economy stream questions covered a range of topics, including their general experience of the experiment, the facilitation of engagement and collaboration between Local Accelerator Hub members, the wider context and support for businesses, and how circular innovation can better include groups with disabilities. This Zenodo upload includes 1) the interview protocol used during the interviews and 2) the anonymised interview transcripts for the Circular Economy experiment stream. The experiment stream's local partners conducted these interviews: CYS (Cyprus), Camara Municipal de Santo Tirso (Portugal), Technology Park Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Val de Marne en Transition (France). There are 42 transcripts in total.