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The MAPS project is dedicated to developing and assessing a new set of policies to deliver wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries.

MAPS stands for Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability. The project’s core mission is to map transformative policy pathways to ensure equitable human wellbeing while respecting Earth’s environmental limits. Employing participatory approaches, MAPS explores various post-growth policy options that prioritise peoples’ wellbeing and ecological sustainability and can secure welfare state provisioning in a postgrowth transition. Building on co-creation and active engagement with stakeholders in the policy and research communities, the project develops an innovative simulation model designed to inform real-world decision-making. Considering a holistic set of carefully selected environmental, social, and economic indicators, the model is used to assess resource requirements and policy options for a good life for all.

By providing research-backed policy scenarios and modelling tools, the MAPS project aims to facilitate an actionable shift towards a societal paradigm and narrative beyond growth. The project identifies post-growth policies that are not only politically feasible and socio-economically sound but also enjoy public support. MAPS strives to provide people and decision-makers with the knowledge and tools to build a better future, where a good life for all is achieved within the environmental limits of our planet.

MAPS is a four-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme. It is coordinated by the University of Barcelona and brings together leading universities and research. The partner institutions include the University of Pisa, University of Surrey, ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies, IST-ID – Association of Instituto Superior Técnico for Research and Development, University of Leeds, Corvinus University of Budapest, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Tampere University, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Mapping sustainable futures for all

Transformative policies for a thriving planet and equitable wellbeing

Building a better future within Earth’s limits

Pathways to a sustainable and equitable economy

Policies and models for people and planet

Shaping equitable futures within planetary limits

Mapping wellbeing within planetary limits

Modelling a better future, mapping policies for a good life for all

Mapping pathways to a just and sustainable future

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