22/2020

Research results

Aix-Marseille University (AMU) z Francji poszukuje instytucji partnerskich do projektów składanych w ramach Green Deal: Topics of interest: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1

Abstract in Polish

Horizon 2020 Green Deal Call

Topics of interest: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1

Short description of AMU:

Aix-Marseille University (AMU) was created in 2012, resulting from the merger of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University. It has more than 78,000 students including 10,000 international students, 7,680 faculty and staff members, 12 doctoral schools and nearly 3,300 PhD students. AMU is the coordinator of the Erasmus + European University Alliance “CIVIS”. AMU has been involved in more than 100 FP7 projects and until now 102 H2020 projects.

AMU Laboratory involved:

Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale (UR 849)

Areas of potential contribution:

Raquel Bertoldo is Associate Professor in social psychology at the Aix-Marseille Université. Her main

research interest includes science society relations, with a focus on environmental issues, natural and indus- trial risks.

Keywords: social representations, laws, social norms, risk perception, risk management, social change.

Our societies’ habits, consumption culture and way of life are largely responsible for climate change. My research activity has focused on the different cultural aspects that can facilitate (or hamper) social transition to sustainable societies. More precisely as a social psychologist I am interested in all types of shared knowledge (from scientific knowledge to religious beliefs) that support how we rationalise events in our everyday lives. I have worked with how new environmental laws push for sustainable change, how natural risks are managed, and how new technologies are adopted from different individual or group perspectives. In what concerns climate change, I have been interested in how scientific knowledge is interpreted and how these different science understandings can contribute to climate scepticism.