Assessment

Gauge the Societal Readiness Levels (SRL) of a project by answering 4 contextual and 12 reflective questions based on Awareness, Ambition and Deliverability across the four dimensions of Societal Readiness:

PART 1

CARBON REDUCTION

Maximising carbon reduction through reducing the use of carbon intensive materials & enabling low-carbon practices.
PART 2

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Embedding consideration of equity, inclusion and fairness, engaging a wide range of stakeholder views in the project's design and development.
PART 3

SOCIAL GOOD

Optimising the project's contribution to broader social, environmental and economic outcomes, such as democracy, transparency, accountability.
PART 4

FIT FOR A DECARBONISED SOCIETY

Resonance with social practices that lead to decarbonisation and contribute to future ways of living in harmony with nature.

 

Good to know

An online free self-assessment will take around 15 minutes.
You will receive a full report with a breakdown of your assessment, including:
  • Societal Readiness Level (SRL) of the assessed green mobility project.
  • A detailed summary report of your assessment against the four pillars of Societal Readiness.
  • Recommendations for actions to improve the societal readiness of the project based on the assessment.

 

The aim is improvement

Assessment of SRL is a reflexive exercise, not a tick-box exercise. The questions and the summary provide an opportunity to reflect, be (self-)critical, creative and collaborative.
The object of assessment is a project. When assessing projects at concept or planning stage it can get complicated, because hopes, ambitions, intentions can be bigger than the current actions or effects evident in the project.

How to score?

There rarely are hard and fast answers to the SRL questions. To make the most of SoRA in the spirit of reflection. dialogue and improvement, follow these instructions:
  • Score the project as you find it now (not its ambitions or expected future achievements)
  • Be (brutally) honest and critical
  • If in doubt, go for the lower score
  • Invite other stakeholders to score the project and discuss their scores and reasoning
  • Don’t cheat – you would only cheat yourself
  • Don’t expect to score high – You are doing great even with a score of SRL, because it shows that you are seriously thinking about societal readiness in a way that is geared to improvement.

Read more about how SRL are calculated.

Learn more about the research behind Societal Readiness Assessment.