Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-Making in Sustainable Consumption (CORPUS)

In order to enhance the policy impact of research, the knowledge created in science needs to be properly brokered between the relevant communities. This is a challenge, particularly in the emerging policy domain of sustainable consumption and production (SCP). At present, strategies and action plans are developed at national and international policy levels generating an increasing demand for scientific evidence and its effective translation into policy processes. However, putting the principle of evidence-based policy-making into the practice of SCP requires exploring and testing new and effective ways of knowledge brokerage. The CORPUS project will do so in those areas of household consumption with the largest environmental impact, namely food, mobility, and housing.

The CORPUS project is supported under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project runs from January 2010 to January 2013.