Science for Change

Science for Change is an SME born from the will to tackle societal challenges affecting communities using innovative solutions. SfC specialises in developing user-centered, innovative services and products based on citizen science, participatory strategies, community engagement and co-creation processes to facilitate social innovation. It focuses on environmental issues affecting citizens, or any other matters of concern, and uses a methodology based on a quadruple helix model of stakeholder engagement (public authorities and policy makers, industries and SMEs, academia, and communities, NGOs and CSOs, amongst others), to promote dialogue, increase transparency, and to co-design innovative solutions that are relevant to all the stakeholders involved.

Science for Change contributes to the citizen engagement and stakeholder engagement activities within HOOP. They also develop a new tool based on citizen science for designing bottom-up, personalised urban biowaste collection systems in the lighthouse cities, for increased valorisation rates and the quality of separation for the new processes to be implemented.