SEEPIA (TA ČR, 2021–2026)
Center for Socio-Economic Research on Environmental Policy Impact Assessment (SEEPIA)
The project Center for Socio-Economic Research on Environmental Policy Impact Assessment (SEEPIA) aims to establish an interdisciplinary research center, providing long-term expert capacity for socioeconomic environmental research.
Project web page: Web page of the project
Project period: 05/2021-12/2026
Financial support: Technological Agency of the Czech Republic (TA ČR), Environment for Life Programme
Project description:
The project Center for Socio-Economic Research on Environmental Policy Impact Assessment (SEEPIA) aims to establish an interdisciplinary research center, providing long-term expert capacity for socioeconomic environmental research. The center will develop methods for policy impact evaluation, foresight, and behavioral research and provide support to the MoE and public authorities in policy-making elaborating on the European Green Deal (GD) based on the research of current and expected impacts on the environment, the economy and society. The Center consists of 12 research institutions and universities with broad expertise.
Project outputs:
The SEEPIA project has three main goals: 1. Environmental and socioeconomic policy evaluation. We will develop quantitative methods for ex-post evaluation and evaluate the effectiveness of environmental policies. We will ex ante evaluate the impacts of the GD, compile macro-econometric and CGE models and use optimization and simulation models, including regional input-output analysis, to verify the impacts of scenarios. We will establish a knowledge transfer hub to co-design policies as a shared analytical database with knowledge transfer among bodies of the strategic cycle chain. 2. Development and application of foresight methods We will develop foresight methods to identify new trends in the form of development scenarios to map transformation processes in society, research and technologies, constituting assumptions for the identification of current and future socioeconomic and environmental challenges and their impacts. 3. Incorporating attitudes and behavior into the policy-making process We will develop approaches drawing from experimental and behavioral economics, social psychology and sociology. We will design and conduct behavioral experiments, evaluating the effects and acceptability of policy measures and readiness for structural changes in the direction set in the GD. Periodical sociological surveys on public opinion related to environmental problems will improve understanding of how to communicate complex policies.
Project partners:
Coordinator of the project in CUEC:
Involved departments:
- Department of Environmental Economics and Sociology
- Department of Indicators of Environmental Sustainability
