SONNET City Lab Basel - data

The Basel city lab differed slightly from the other SONNET city labs, as it involved a collaboration between the state-owned local energy utility and the SONNET academic partner ZHAW. While the involvement of the city administration supported the initial set-up and scoping of projects with the academic partner, they were subsequently less directly involved. Nonetheless, the city lab, involving the local energy utility as the “city partner” successfully developed and tested a social innovation in energy (SIE). The SIE in focus was a smartphone app designed to encourage reducing an individual’s CO2-footprint. To conduct the outcomes evaluation and to obtain reliable data on the causal impact of the app on users’ knowledge about their personal CO2-footprint, beliefs and norms concerning climate change and their personal CO2-emissions, as well as on their environmentally relevant practices and behaviours, we conducted a field experiment, or randomized controlled trial (RCT), with around 500 volunteer participants over the course of two months from mid-October to mid-December 2020.巴塞尔城市实验室与其余SONNET城市实验室存在细微差异，其合作模式为地方国有能源公用事业公司与SONNET学术合作方苏黎世应用科技大学（ZHAW）的联合协作。尽管城市管理部门的参与为项目的初期搭建与范围界定提供了支撑，但后续其直接参与度有所降低。不过，该城市实验室以地方国有能源公用事业作为"城市合作方"，成功开发并测试了一项能源领域社会创新（social innovation in energy，SIE）。本次聚焦的SIE即一款旨在鼓励个人降低自身二氧化碳足迹（CO2-footprint）的智能手机应用程序。为开展成果评估并获取可靠数据，以明确该应用对用户个人二氧化碳足迹相关认知、气候变化及个人碳排放相关信念与规范，以及与环境相关的实践与行为的因果影响，我们于2020年10月中旬至12月中旬的两个月间，面向约500名志愿者参与者开展了一项田野实验，即随机对照试验（randomized controlled trial，RCT）。