This document summarizes a European Union FP7 project called newLIFE that aims to promote well-being and a socio-ecological transition in Europe. The project has multiple work packages, including one on well-being led by Cyril Masselot that will analyze meanings of well-being and cultural contexts of sustainability. It will also examine education systems and produce knowledge to inform governance. The well-being work package has several sub-tasks focusing on language, culture, temporality, and learning in relation to sustainable development. The overall goal is to develop a new development model guided by individual and collective well-being.

1. FP7 project newLIFE
“A development driven by well being for a successful socio-
ecological transition in Europe”
WP1 [Well-being]
Cyril MASSELOT
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de l’Environnement C. N. LEDOUX
EA 2281 Laseldi
WP1 [Well-being] leader
May 2011

2. FP7–SSH-2011–1: Questions
What are the cultural contexts of the socio-
ecological transition?
What can interdisciplinary analyses (economics,
sociology, history, philosophy, anthropology for
example) tell us of the complex collective meanings
of "well-being"?
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3. Tracks…
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4. Work package [Well-being]
• Towards a new culture of development
Lead by Cyril Masselot, MSHE C. N. Ledoux, UFC-CNRS, France
• Analyse collective and complex meanings of well-being in its daily use, as
well as its political, scientific, cultural and educational constructions.
• Examine the cultural contexts of the socio-ecological transition, focusing
the question of temporality, and paying special attention to the role of
education and learning systems in enhancing a culture of sustainable
development.
• The target is to produce sound knowledge to enlighten the reflections of the
other WP, and in connection with WP6 (Governance) and WP8 (Dissemination) to
help the stakeholders to use well-being as a driver of social change in a new model
of governance for a new path of development.
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5. [Well-being] – 1A <well-being>
Language and uses of "well being”
Animate by Eric BOUTIN, CNRS-Université de Toulon – Var, France
• Multidisciplinary approach:
• a synchronic perspective (ontology of well-being);
• a contingent perspective (difference of speech according to the transmitter);
• cultural variations of meaning and values (qualitative surveys inspired by grounded
theory and lexicographical analysis);
• a diachronic perspective (studying the evolution of this concept through time).
• To drive this work: studies of multimedia corpuses stemming from Web (webometric
analysis and automatic text processing techniques). Semi-directive interviews of stakeholders
of the project will be also realized and analysed. At last, our perspective will focus on the
role that digital technology plays in the expectations and preferences for well being.
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6. [Well-being] – 1B <culture>
Cultural contexts of socio-ecological transition
Animate by Tullia SACCHERI, Universita di Salerno, Italy
• Identify the culture and heritage as an ethical basis of socio-ecological transition
and distinguish best practices and best strategies to move towards the changes in
term of sustainability.
• WP1Ba <<identity>>, animated by Sophie LACOUR, UPEMLV (France)
Selection of 10 study cases (territories) in different European Regions covering
different socio-cultural contexts focusing on the question of the emergency of
“identity” and its reorganization in changing contexts.
• WP1Bb <<gift>>, animated by O. GALIBERT, UB (France)
Study a relevant social trend as it is the extension of the logic of “gift giving”
present in the heart of the electronic socialization focusing on how it articulates in
a larger movement a rediscovery of exchange practices in the society.
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7. [Well-being] - 1C <temporality>
• 1C <temporality>
New temporalities of well being
Animate by Sophie LACOUR, Université de Paris-Est Marne La Vallée,
France
• What’s the role of time conception and organization facing a socio-ecological
transition?
• How to reconsider new approaches of temporality in order to get a human,
social, economic, cultural and ecological gain?
• Can we characterize the magnitude of change?
• Could the way nation states manage this temporality and enter it into the
calculation of the index of well being?
• How can we develop solutions in light of the difficulty of every local context
being in its own temporality?
• It is previewed an activity of informational and information monitoring at European level
on this concept: indicators, data, maps and documentary resources multi-media, with the
idea of propose specific actions to integrate the notion of temporality as a cultural driver of
life quality in the framework of the socio-ecological transition. 7

8. [Well-being] - 1D <Learning>
Learning and sustainable development: Education for and by sustainable
development, and Training for improve practices in some key jobs
Animate by Christian BOURRET, Université de Paris-Est Marne La Vallée, France
• This task will focus on environmental, social, cultural, political and didactic
aspects that encourage or hinder education for sustainable development in
primary and secondary schools.
• WP1Da <<education>> Education for and by sustainable developement –
Animated by Jean-Luc FAUGUET, Université de Provence (France)
The question is how to incorporate the notion of socio-ecological transition in
education. Main target is to build up an European database which allows a
follow-up of practices and to make an European guide to implement Education
for Sustainable Development in educational institutions.
• WP1Db <<training>> Training in sustainable developement – animated by
Antonio IANNACONE, UNISA (Italy)
On the other hand, formal or non-formal learning, open education, life-long
learning and training, work-placement training… are tools for experimental
and inter-cultural education necessary to accompany as well as to provoke
social and cultural changes.
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9. [Well-being] - 1R <Report>
Report
Animate by Cyril Masselot, MSHE C. N. Ledoux, UFC-CNRS, France
• The aim of this task is to integrate the results of the others tasks into a
synthetic research report specially driven to social, economic and political
stakeholders.
• This report will be preliminary discussed with the Advisory Board and
will include main suggestions about orientations in further research and
political action in order to incorporate renovate concepts of well-being,
culture, education and trying which can enlighten the governance of the
socio-ecological transition.
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10. WP1 - [Well-being] - Delivrables
D1.1 / State of research and relate European policies for each topic (CO, PU,
M11).
D1.2 / Progress in research: Vade-mecum (pedagogical strategies, concepts and
tools) facing socio ecological transition. (PP, PU, M23).
D1.3 / Preliminary report: “Research and political orientations on well-being,
culture, temporality and education to be discussed with Advisory
Board” (linked to WP5 and WP6) (PP, M35).
D1.4 / Final Report on Quality Concept for “Research and political orientations
on well-being, culture, temporality and education”. (PP, PU, M37)
D1.5 / Well-being, culture and education for a European Cross Agenda for
Succeeding Socio-Ecological Transition (linked to WP5 and WP6) (PP, PU, M47).
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11. GdRI caINTI - [intelligence]
I. [intelligence] Information, communication, knowledge in an alternative
culture of development guided by the well-being of each and everybody
(lead by C. MASSELOT, MSHE)
This axis will synthesize research concerned with the changing modes and patterns of
production and consumption and with the mobilization of social capital to build
alternative development paths:
• The process of information and communication in the context of cooperation and
participation <IC info-com> E. BOUTIN I3M (= WP1A <well-being>)
• The new culture of sustainable development and cultural contexts of the socio-
ecological transition <IK culture> T. SACCHIERI DISUFF (= WP1B <culture>)
• The education for and by sustainable development, training and learning
professional practice and citizenship behavior <IE education> C. BOURRET
UPEMLV (= WP1C <learning>)
It will lay the foundations for a development model driven by the well-being of each
and everybody. It will suggest structural reforms and governance initiatives for
changing behavior through establishing the referent research activities.
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