Project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
New ConPolicy project on possession reduction
The number of goods in households continues to increase, while only a small proportion of them are regularly used and valued. This finding has both psychological and ecological consequences. At the same time, numerous concepts and movements to reduce possessions have emerged in recent years. So far, however, no research has been conducted on the extent to which decluttering can help people live more resource-efficiently in the long term.
Against this background, the Citizen Science project aims to develop decluttering measures in the demand fields of clothing and office & technology together with citizen scientists, in order to promote sufficient (resource-efficient) lifestyles. Under the leadership of the TU Berlin, co2online and ConPolicy are working together with three practice partners in the network. The project started in April 2021 and will run for three years.
More information about the project can be found here.
Last call for registrations
Invitation to the Online Consumer Research Forum 'Nudging in Consumer Policy' on June 08, 2021
On 08 June 2021, the Consumer, Market and Policy Research Center (CCMP) of Zeppelin University in cooperation with the ConPolicy Institute for Consumer Policy and the European University Institute (EUI) Florence will host the Online Consumer Research Forum 2021of the Ministry of Food, Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg (MLR). The event will take place from 12.30 until 16.30 pm.
The research forum will focus on the questions of what influence behavioral science findings have had on consumer policy in the last decade and to what extent behavioral science findings should continue to be taken into account in consumer policy in the coming years.
Keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Cass R. Sunstein (Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard) will introduce the topic. This will be followed by panel discussions on legal and practical issues related to the use of behavior-based tools. In a closing discussion, we will also provide an outlook with experts from the EU and federal level.
We welcome your registration by email at: ccmp@zu.de. The program for the event can be found here.
Nudging – concepts, experiences and ethical debate
ConPolicy presentation at the 38th Dialog Food of the German Food Federation
Today's 38th Dialogue on Food of the German Food Federation aimed at shedding light on what nudging is, what experiences there are with nudging and how nudging can be evaluated ethically.
Within the framework of the dialogue, ConPolicy's managing director, Prof. Dr. Christian Thorun, gave the introductory lecture with an overview of the application of nudging in the European Union and Germany and took part in the concluding panel discussion.
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