ECOSENS M5: Survey on stakeholder engagement and transdisciplinary collaborations in nuclear decision-making

The milestone addressed by this document is an assessment of the actual uptake of recommendations on stakeholder engagement in energy governance and transdisciplinary collaborations, in the nuclear field. As part of ECOSENS subtask 1.3.2, an online survey with regulators, policy representatives, research institutions and other societal stakeholders in European countries was carried out. This document describes the methodology, results and findings of this online survey that explored several stakeholders opinions in seven different countries involved in the project.
The survey gathered 65 responses: 5 from Belgium, 10 from Slovenia, 26 from Spain, 4 from France, 3 from the UK, 7 from the Czech Republic and 5 from Romania. Two people from Finland, one from the Netherlands, one from Italy and one from the United States also took part, but were not included in the quantitative analysis due to insufficient sample size per country. Thus, the final valid sample for quantitative analyses was 60. As this is a study with very specific stakeholders, rather a qualitative and exploratory study, in which not all stakeholder categories were represented in all countries, the results cannot be interpreted as representative, reflecting only the perceptions of the respondents.