ABOUT
SAGES
is
grounded
in
a
novel
conceptual
and
operational
framework
that
goes
"beyond-GDP"
to
encompass
well-being
approaches, which include economic growth, inclusiveness, and sustainability, analysed from a place-based perspective.
SAGES
project
will
provide
an
in-depth,
evidence-based,
and
conceptual
understanding
of
sustainable
well-being
determinants
and
patterns,
will
address
the
limitations
of
conventional
approaches
to
happiness
research
by
addressing
key
environmental
and societal constraints, and introduce a new interconnected “place-based” framework, culminating with the Smiley Index.
The
project
will
create
a
novel
multi-layered
analysis
framework
and
methods
for
well-being
assessment,
focusing
on
the
identification
and
evaluation
of
place-based
inequalities
within
the
paradigm
of
sustainable
and
inclusive
well-being
and
will
support the collaboratively design of spatial-based policy recommendations for future 'beyond GDP' scenarios.
Specific SAGES objectives:
•
To
provide
an
in-depth
evidence-based
and
conceptual
understanding
of
the
current
sustainable
well-being
determinants
and
patterns
at
different
geographical
scales,
from
the
perspective
of
the
place-people
inter-conditionalities
and
the
relationships between economic growth, environmental quality, and social capital at community level
•
To
address
the
limits
of
the
conventional
approaches
in
order
to
capture
the
critical
environmental
and
societal
constraints
on
happiness
research
and
to
provide
a
new
interconnected
“place-based”
framing
culminating
in
a
novel
and
replicable
index (Smiley index)
•
To
collect
new
geo-localised
data
(NUTS2
level
for
EU;
LAU2
level
for
Romania)
and
construct
an
open-access
large-scale
spatial
database
as
well
as
to
provide
new
quantitative
and
qualitative
methods
and
tools
for
collecting
data
and
ecological
transformation monitoring
•
To
develop
an
innovative
multi-layered
analysis
framework
and
innovative
methods
(based
on
the
Smiley
index)
for
well-
being
assessment,
and
to
identify
and
assess
the
critical
factors
of
place-based
inequalities,
based
on
the
new
paradigm
of
sustainable and inclusive well-being
•
To
model
the
impact
of
new
drivers
of
change
(Green
Deal,
4.0
technologies,
security
risks,
post-COVID)
on
people
and
places,
in
order
to
identify
new
human-based
resilience
approaches
to
Just
Transition
strategies
and
the
well-being
patterns dynamics
•
To
co-design
spatial-based
policy
recommendations,
in
the
context
of
prospective
‘beyond
GDP’
scenarios,
including
the
well-being “dematerialisation” and the de-growth paradigms
•
To
overcome
the
current
research
barriers
of
the
Alexandru
Ioan
Cuza
University
of
Iasi
(with
a
wider
impact
of
the
Romanian
research
performance),
increasing
the
excellence,
international
visibility
and
competitiveness,
while
providing
new international cooperation opportunities