PSLifestyle Project (Horizon 2020)
Title: PSLIFESTYLE
Duration: Oct 2021 - ongoing (2025)
Description:
PSLifestyle is an EU Green Deal Horizon2020 project to create an inspiring tool European citizens can use to build sustainable lifestyles. The project will deliver a locally customisable online service for eight different countries.
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The importance of this tool was highlighted in a video statement by the President of Slovenia, who personally endorsed Lifestyle Test as a practical way to engage citizens in climate action!
Lifestyle Test is part of the BBC’s Purchasing Powers: The New Consumer campaign!
“PSLifestyle – Co-creating a Positive and Sustainable Lifestyle Tool with and for European Citizens” addresses the challenge of closing the gap between climate awareness and individual action by increasing citizen participation in sustainability issues. A web-based application (APP) will be developed and used to collect, monitor and analyse citizens’ consumption data and to jointly research, develop and implement everyday solutions to mitigate climate change.
As a consortium partner in Slovenia, one of the 8 pilot countries, Circular Change is working hand in hand with the City of Ljubljana (MOL) to collect and validate available input data, coordinate and implement citizen engagement activities through living labs in Slovenia, to test the pilot as well as deploy at large-scale the PSLifestyle APP across the country, ensuring that as many citizens use the application and provide relevant data. Moreover, we will and actively work in engagement activities with CSOs, policy makers, academia and business/industry actors and promote and disseminate the project activities and results in Slovenia.
The PSLifestyle project is funded under the European Union’s research program Horizon 2020 and it will be running over a period of 3,5 years (2021-2025).
We are a consortium of 16 partners from 8 European countries
Project partners are: Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland (leading partner); Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece; Circular Change, Institute for circular economy, Slovenia; Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Germany; DECO-Associação Portuguesa para a Defesa do Consumidor, Portugal; Enosi Katanaloton Poiotita Tis Zois, Greece; EuroHealthNet, Belgium; Fondazione Sviluppo Sostenibile, Italy; Greenapes SRL, Italy; Hot or Cool Institute, Germany; ICLEI European Secretariat, Germany; Let’s Do It Foundation, Estonia; Municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Rohetiiger, Green Tiger Foundation, Estonia; Solita Oy, Finland; Zeytince Ekolojik Yasamı Destekleme Dernegi, Turkey.
Useful resources
Throughout the course of the project, we gained numerous key insights and developed a range of valuable resources. These are intended to support individuals and organizations interested in undertaking similar initiatives.
Meet our Slovenian PSLifestyle Ambassadors
Aljoša Bagola, creative director, writer, speaker
Blaž Berlec, content creator, culinary and travel blogger at Yummyavanture
dr. Jerneja Jug Jerše, Head of European Commission Representation in Slovenia
Nina Gaspari, host of Lovim ravnotežje podcast
Tina Remic, co-founder Trajnostni izziv 21
PSLifestyle Contributes to Global Analysis
The Hot or Cool Institute, in collaboration with the PSLifestyle (PSL) project and international research partners, has released a major update of its flagship study A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles (2025 update).As one of the report’s partners, the PSLifestyle (PSL) project contributes to the analysis with data and insights from its pilot countries — including Slovenia, Finland, Estonia, and Greece — collected through the PSL online tool. This tool engages citizens to measure their personal carbon footprints, explore sustainable lifestyle options, and co-create pathways towards low-carbon living. . The full report A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles (2025 update) is available at www.hotorcool.org
PSLIFESTYLE IN MEDIA (Selected articles in Slovenian):
Podcast with Ladeja Godina Košir (Circular Change director) about PSL and Circular Activity in Lovim ravnotežje podcast by Nina Gaspari (PSL ambassador), listen at podcast website
Podcast with Meta Pezdir (PSL project manager) about PSL and her work at Radio Kranj, listen at Spotify
About PSLifestyle project and gift exchange event, watch on RTV website
Short interview about PSLifestyle project and gift exchange event, watch on POP TV website
Article about gift exchange event, read in Dnevnik
Article on web portal ‘Čas za Zemljo’, Read on 24ur website
Article in Žurnal24. Read the article
Article in Delo, Resnica o ogljičnem odtisu, ki nas je vse presenetila, članek o PSLifestyle projektu
Article in Delo, Življenjske izbire je mogoče izboljšati
BBC Purchasing Powers: The European lifestyle app helping to reduce our individual emissions
Read the interview with Ladeja G. Košir and Meta Pezdir: Small lifestyle changes, big impact: Circular Change’s circular economy vision
PSLIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERS (In Slovenian):
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037342.