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Eco.7.1: Initiatives to create environmental awarenessRelevance:The indicator describes the range of initiatives considered by the RIproject for creating and fostering public environmental awareness aspart of its policy for social & environmental responsibilityCompilation:• Identify and suggest initiatives and good practices to be consideredby the RI project for creating public environmental awareness onthe S&T activities of the RI. The awareness subjects can be determinedby the type of experiments conducted in the RI (nuclear,lazer or chemical/biotechnology based experiments, medical/environmentaltests, if live testing objects are affected, etc.) or by thetype of scientific product generated by the RI activities (ecologicalsurveys/findings, eco-innovations, collaborative networks, databases, etc.)• Outline a RI policy plan for fostering environmental awarenessinitiatives in the local communities such as organisation of publicdiscussions, business trainings, children education courses, etc.Definitions and explanations:NoneData sources and collection methods:• Document analysis of project documents as the project proposal• Interviews with S&T experts, managers of the RIData analysis methods:• Descriptive content analysisReferences:http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/index_en.htm264