MERGE - Measuring what matters: Improving usability and accessibility of policy frameworks and indicators for multidimensional well-being through collaboration

要实现联合国可持续发展目标和欧洲联盟关于环境和社会可持续性的政策，就需要全面衡量人类的进步，而不是只注重国内生产总值。然而，关于替代办法的证据是支离破碎的，对相互竞争的指标和政策框架缺乏共识是实现联合国可持续发展目标和欧洲联盟关于环境和社会可持续性的政策的一个障碍，需要对人类进步进行全面衡量，而不是仅仅关注国内生产总值。然而，关于替代办法的证据支离破碎，对相互竞争的指标和政策框架缺乏共识，是制定促进多层面福祉的政策目标以及监测和衡量进展情况的主要障碍。MERGE通过为对话、共同创造和知识交流提供一个论坛，并将尖端研究和政策实践联系起来，来应对这些挑战。MERGE是一个由该领域的领先研究人员和关键社区组成的联盟，它汇集了三个最近成立的高等教育研究联盟(SPES、TOBE、WISE Horizons)和一笔ERC赠款(REAL)。为了扩大成果，MERGE提供了一个框架，以创建和加强一个多学科研究人员社区、一个技术和知识网络、一个政策网络和一个民间社会行为者网络。通过这些网络，MERGE旨在就在欧盟和成员国以及全球组织和民间社会的全球范围内衡量多层面福祉的易于使用和可接受的指标和框架达成广泛共识。合并参与者将受益于协作和培训活动、分析、指标、数据集和政策简报。通过知识交流，利益攸关方和研究人员可以在自己的工作中采用和发展对可持续经济范例的系统和连贯的理解。

Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the European Union's policies on environmental and social sustainability requires a comprehensive measure of human progress that does not focus solely on GDP. However, the evidence on alternative approaches is fragmented and the lack of consensus on competing indicators and policy frameworks is a mAchieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the European Union's policies on environmental and social sustainability requires a comprehensive measure of human progress that does not focus solely on GDP. However, the evidence on alternative approaches is fragmented and the lack of consensus on competing indicators and policy frameworks is a major obstacle to setting policy goals that promote multi-dimensional well-being and to monitoring and measuring progress. MERGE addresses these challenges by providing a forum for dialogue, co-creation and knowledge exchange, and by linking cutting-edge research and policy practice. A consortium of leading researchers and key communities in the field, MERGE brings together three recently launched higher education research consortia (SPES, ToBe, WISE Horizons) and an ERC grant (REAL). To scale up results, MERGE provides a framework for creating and strengthening a multidisciplinary community of researchers, a technical and knowledge network, a policy network and a network of civil society actors. Through these networks, MERGE aims to build a broad consensus on easy-to-use and acceptable indicators and frameworks for measuring multidimensional well-being within planetary boundaries in the EU and Member States, as well as in global organisations and civil society. MERGE participants will benefit from collaborative and training events, analyses, indicators, datasets and policy briefings. Through knowledge exchange, stakeholders and researchers can adopt and develop a systematic and coherent understanding of the sustainable economy paradigm in their own work.