PSLifestyle: Co-creating a positive and sustainable lifestyle tool with and for European citizens
PSLifestyle was a Horizon 2020 project aiming at closing the gap between climate awareness and individual action. It ran between 2021 and 2025.
PSLifestyle aimed to deeply engage with and mobilise individuals in eight European countries to adopt positive, sustainable, and healthier lifestyles by helping them reduce their environmental impact. PSLifestyle’s online tool helps individuals get informed about the environmental impact of their day-to-day lives as well as inspires them to think about their current habits and how they could be changed through smart everyday actions.
The PSLifestyle project was a consortium of 16 partners.
Learn more about how the PSLifestyle project helped individuals to adopt a more positive and sustainable lifestyle on the PSLifestyle website. Follow and connect with the PSLifestyle project on Twitter @PSLifestyle_EU and LinkedIn.
EuroHealthNet's role in PSLifestyle
As a partner of PSLifestyle, EuroHealthNet’s main role was to mainstream equity considerations across all project activities. We strived to ensure that PSLifestyle outcomes help to bring everybody on board with the transition to a more sustainable and healthier future, leaving no one behind. A key component of our work focused on developing an inclusive participant recruitment and engagement strategy for the PSL Living Labs, which took place across 2022-2023.
Later in the project, EuroHealthNet developed a PSLifestyle Learnings Cookbook, which compiled relevant outcomes from across project activities to exploit the findings and support the future implementation of PSLifestyle in new locations. EuroHealthNet also played an active role in the communication and dissemination of the project, developing a video as well as four policy briefs to advocate for sustainable change at local, national and European level.
Project resources
The PSLifestyle Cookbook
The PSLifestyle Learnings Cookbook summarises the key findings, lessons learned, and practical recommendations from the PSLifestyle project. Drawing on activities implemented across eight countries, it distils what worked, what could be improved, and how to successfully replicate the PSLifestyle approach elsewhere.
The Cookbook is designed as a handson guide for stakeholders—such as policymakers, civil society actors,
and practitioners—interested in adapting and scaling the Lifestyle Test and related outcomes in their own contexts.
Unlocking the power of behavioural data - Overall recommendations
The PSLifestyle Learnings Cookbook summarises the key findings, lessons learned, and practical recommendations from the PSLifestyle project. Drawing on activities implemented across eight countries, it distils what worked, what could be improved, and how to successfully replicate the PSLifestyle approach elsewhere.
The Cookbook is designed as a handson guide for stakeholders—such as policymakers, civil society actors,
and practitioners—interested in adapting and scaling the Lifestyle Test and related outcomes in their own contexts.
The PSLifestyle test and data set
The Lifestyle Test app empowers users to understand their environmental footprint and create tailored sustainability action plans in areas like food, mobility, housing, and goods consumption. Many of the recommended actions reflect circular economy principles such as reuse, repair, and waste prevention. Between its public launch in September 2023 and September 2025, over 500,000 users took the test, with strong behavioural impact shown through high levels of personal action planning.
Developed alongside the test, PSLifestyle made available LifestyleData, a dataset with 50,000 individual plans. The dataset is made accessible for policymakers, researchers, industry and others, to support sustainable lifestyles, drive change, and remove barriers.
Citizen science labs
The PSLifestyle citizen science labs (CSLs) were a combination of two participatory governance approaches, namely living labs and citizen science, that aimed to ensure and enable citizens’ involvement in shaping the project's socioeconomic and political frameworks through co-creation and data collection/provision. Such a methodological approach helped to increase the transparency, credibility and legitimacy of solutions that might impact citizens’ lives.
Throughout 6 meetings, the PSLifestyle CSLs brought together European citizens to co-create and shape visions of a good life within environmental boundaries as well as design solutions for making those visions a reality. The output of the exchanges with the citizens directly fed into the content and creation and localisation of the PSL Tool.
Policy briefs
The PSLifestyle policy briefs draw on over 410,000 responses to the Lifestyle Test. Based on the actions people are willing to take, and on the challenges people face when adopting such actions, it presents a series of policy recommendations on food, transport, purchase, and housing.
These recommendations aim to address structural barriers to meeting Europe’s climate neutral goals and help make sustainable, healthy choices easier and more accessible for everyone.
Other PSLifestyle resources
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