What We Do

Our Services

How We Support Energy and Climate Transitions

Our services address the social foundations of change — ensuring initiatives are understood, trusted, inclusive and implementable.

SocioTech Lab supports organisations and initiatives facing complex social, institutional and behavioural challenges. We help translate ambition into practice by embedding social insight, participatory design, governance readiness and measurable impact into every stage of development and implementation.

Core Areas of Intervention

SSH Contributions Across the Project Lifecycle

SocioTech Lab structures its work around a set of core areas that address the social and institutional dimensions of energy and climate transitions. These areas reflect where Social Sciences and Humanities expertise is most critical to support planning, implementation, evaluation, and scale-up.

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Stakeholder & Citizen Engagement

We design and implement structured engagement strategies that bring diverse voices into dialogue — from citizens and community groups to public authorities and sector stakeholders.

02.

Co-Creation & Living Labs

We support co-creative processes and place-based experimentation that mobilise local actors to jointly shape, test and refine solutions that matter to their contexts.

03.

Social Acceptance & Behaviour Change

We analyse social norms, perceptions and behavioural drivers to design strategies that support acceptance and uptake of sustainability actions.

04.

Governance & Policy Advisory

We help organisations and programmes navigate governance complexity — aligning institutional interests, policy frameworks and decision-making processes to enable coordinated action.

05.

Impact Assessment & Just Transition

We develop evaluation frameworks that capture both social and institutional impacts, ensuring that transitions deliver measurable and equitable benefits.

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Societal & Cultural Dynamics

We analyse how social values, cultural contexts, narratives and democratic practices shape the way change is perceived, debated and adopted.