TRANSITER

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TRANSITER

TRANSITER is observing and supporting the TRANSItion of TERritories, and lifestyles in Luxembourg. The TRANSITER observatory in Luxembourg leads the assessment of societal acceptance for decarbonisation and resilience measures.

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About the project

Social acceptability of the ecological transition

TRANSITER (short for Observing and Supporting the TRANSItion or TERritories and lifestyles in Luxembourg) studies how residents of Luxembourg evaluate the environmental, mobility and spatial planning policies that will shape the country's coming decades. The project is jointly funded by the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Biodiversity through the Fonds Climat et Énergie and the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning.

Measuring acceptability beyond support
and opposition

Rather than treating public opinion as a binary matter of support or opposition, TRANSITER measures acceptability as a multidimensional construct: whether people judge a measure effective, whether they consider it fair, how they expect it to affect their own daily life, and what they believe others around them think. The project also aims to capture how residents arbitrate between competing policy intensities and compensation arrangements.

Connecting policy preferences with everyday life
and values

The project covers four interconnected policy domains – mobility and transport, urban form and housing, local services and the "15-minute city", and urban greening and climate adaptation – and links policy preferences to the concrete constraints of everyday life: commuting patterns, housing situation, household composition, and access to local amenities. It also situates attitudes within broader value orientations, environmental worldviews and levels of institutional trust, in order to distinguish the citizens whose positions are anchored in conviction from those whose positions reflect circumstance.

Comparing public acceptance across Luxembourg
and Switzerland

In partnership with the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), TRANSITER extends this design to an international comparison with the Swiss case, allowing the drivers of acceptability to be tested across two contexts with contrasting institutional, territorial and mobility configurations. The findings are disseminated both as scientific outputs and as policy briefs addressed to Luxembourgish public administrations and citizens, providing evidence on where public support for the transition already exists, where it is contested, and under which conditions it can be built.

Project involvement

Our focus areas

Explore key topics driving this project, addressing challenges like mobility and transport, urban form and housing, and urban greening and climate adaptation with innovative solutions.

Urban Mobilities

Housing & Spatial Planning

Evaluation of Public Policies

Green(ing) Economy

Meet the team driving this project forward

A passionate team of experts collaborates to deliver meaningful research and innovative solutions. Their dedication ensures this project achieves impactful outcomes.

Key contributors: Lucie Palanché (EPFL), Dr. Olivier Klein (LISER), Dr. Philippe Gerber (LISER), Sylvain Klein (LISER), Bérengère Darud (LISER), Dr. Maria Guadarrama Sanz (LISER), Prof. Vincent Kaufmann (EPFL)

Umberto Sconfienza

Research Associate

Key organisations powering this initiative

United in purpose. These organisations contribute their expertise to drive research and strategies that create tangible societal change.

Urban Development and Mobility (LISER)

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

Measuring acceptability beyond supportand opposition

Connecting policy preferences with everyday lifeand values

Comparing public acceptance across Luxembourgand Switzerland

Measuring acceptability beyond support
and opposition

Connecting policy preferences with everyday life
and values

Comparing public acceptance across Luxembourg
and Switzerland