EU-CHINA BRIDGE: D1.1 – Stakeholder Engagement Plan with detailed process design

In EU-CHINA BRIDGE researchers from the EU and China work together on advancing knowledge on technology innovations and roadmaps for decarbonising energy intensive industries, co-creating innovative modelling by combining cutting-edge bottom-up and integrated assessment modelling to quantify net-zero sustainable pathways for the EU and China, and developing the most updated and comprehensive emissions data. EU-CHINA BRIDGE will deliver two open-source EU-China joint technology inventories of promising net-zero emission technology options for the iron & steel and chemical industries, two co-implemented demonstrations of promising technologies in China, and co-created scale-up paths and roadmaps of the selected industrial technologies in both regions. By engaging relevant stakeholders from both regions and enhancing dialogues, mutual learning among policymakers, industries, and experts will lead to a better understanding of technological options in different sectors. The objective of this stakeholder engagement plan is to support the co-creation in organising the co-creation activities in a way that stimulates exchange between different disciplines within the EU-CHINA BRIDGE consortium and external participants, in order to help us discover and exploit synergies between our respective research activities. The purpose of the co-creation is to provide an opportunity to share (interim) results and a space for inter- and transdisciplinary exchange within the EU-CHINA BRIDGE project and with project-external experts. Their feedback might help to hone research questions and reconfigure ongoing analyses so that they speak to each other, thus maximising their policy and academic relevance. The co-creation shall encourage an open and transparent research process in a trustful environment. It should NOT constrain research in any of the subsequent work packages. Nor should the other work packages focus their research activities exclusively on providing inputs to the co-creation.