This report summarizes the social scientific component of the Modern2020 project (work package 5). This package has four objectives: i) to actively engage local public stakeholders in repository monitoring R&D within the Modern2020 project, and to analyse the impact this has on both the participating stakeholders’ and the project partners’ understanding of, and expectations regarding, repository monitoring; ii) to define more specific ways for integrating public stakeholder concerns and expectations into specific repository monitoring programmes, iii) to develop ideas on how to ensure accessibility and transparency of monitoring data (of the type gathered through in-situ monitoring) to public stakeholders, and iv) to learn lessons on how local stakeholder groups could be engaged effectively with R&D programmes and projects at an EU level.

Project Modern 2020 - Development and Demonstration of monitoring strategies and technologies for geological disposal; Project co-funded by the European Commission under the Euratom Research and Training Programme on Nuclear Energy within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme