Urban & Coastal Living Labs: finding innovative ways to tackle tourism's carbon-emissions in practice

We can redefine the scope and details of the pre-proposal with you, but this is how we intended to contribute with our expertise:

1. XperienceSthlm (Stockholm, Sweden) - required funding 300,000 EUR for 36 person-months involvement

• Urban sustainable and cultural tourism; community and heritage-based design thinking

• Lead work package on urban circular tourism strategies; develop visitor behaviour change campaigns

• Urban Lab (Stockholm): pilot refillable-packaging cafés, local producer routes, and equitable tourism outcome mapping.

• Would be happy to deliver native-English communication work (all reporting, media, website and results communications) and Consortium representative participation in all DUT and Knowledge Hub events

2. ImpacTrip (Cascais, Lisbon Region, Portugal) - required funding: 100,000 EUR for 10-person months involvement

• B-Corp certified social enterprise offering volunteering & responsible travel programs (e.g. Impact Beach House focused on SDGs, Ocean Conservation, and Climate Action)

• Design impact volunteering exchange model that links tourists to local sustainability projects

• Coastal Lab (Cascais, Lisbon): scale ImpacTrip’s “Impact Beach House” model as zero-waste, climate action, circular economy, and social inclusion labs.