ENERGISE at the eceee Summer Study: our papers are now available
At the eceee Summer Study „Is efficient sufficient?” several members of the ENERGISE team were present to talk about selected outcomes of the ENERGISE project.
Project News
ENERGISE book launched!
An online book titled 'Energy Demand Challenges in Europe - Implications for policy, planning and practice', edited by Frances Fahy, Gary Goggins and Charlotte Jensen (2019) is available.
ENERGISE Newsletter #5 is available now!
In recent months, our team has been busy with concluding the implementation of the ENERGISE Living Labs (ELLs), and progressing with the analysis both at the country and cross-country levels.
The ENERGISE team met in Budapest to discuss the Living Labs and plan the work ahead
At the end of January 2019 the ENERGISE team met in Budapest to share experiences related to ENERGISE Living Lab (ELL) implementation, discuss and evaluate the process, and plan the next steps of the work.
16 ELLs in 8 countries successfully completed
In March, eight implementation teams across eight different countries successfully completed their ENERGISE Living Labs. All of the living labs were implemented from September to December 2019 and were confronted with two challenges.
ENERGISE Living Labs in the UK
The UK team organised a closing ENERGISE event where the researchers presented the preliminary findings based on the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data and held an open discussion about people’s experiences with the challenges.
ELL closing event in Hungary
The final event of the ENERGISE Living Labs was held on the 6th of April in Gödöllő (Hungary). The great majority of 41 households participating in the laundry and heating challenges came to the event with their families, therefore more than 100 people celebrated together the successful closure of Living Labs.
Policy integration of ENERGISE findings
Since the start of 2019 WP6 has produced and submitted to the European Commission three deliverables, including Policy report (D6.5), Policy briefing (D6.2) and Workshop proceedings report (D6.8).
D3.6 & Online tools and user community
ENERGISE Work Package 3, Designing ENERGISE Living Labs, has been developing the online tools and user community for scaling up ENERGISE Living Labs. The aim of the online tools is to serve everyone interested in doing practice-based interventions such as ELLs in their own contexts.
D5.1 - Overview of collective conventions, governing frameworks and material systems
In January 2019, the Swiss team was delighted to submit the first deliverable which presents an overview of collective conventions, governing frameworks and material systems in relation to energy-using practices, with a focus on laundry and heating.
ENERGISE partner AAU will be at the Danish Folkemøde
ENERGISE partner Charlotte Louise Jensen from AAU will be at the Danish ‘Folkemøde’ (The Peoples Democratic Festival) presenting results from the ENERGISE Living Labs (ELLs) in Denmark.
Meet the ENERGISE team at the eceee conference
At the eceee Summer Study „Is efficient sufficient?” several members of the ENERGISE team will be present to talk about selected outcomes of the ENERGISE project, including the analysis of the ENERGISE Living Labs as well as the ENERGISE sustainable energy consumption initiatives database.
Presenting the findings from the Finnish ELLs
The findings from the Finnish ELLs have been presented in a number of events in Finland, for example at the Energy Efficiency Working Group expert group on consumers by Eva Heiskanen.
University of Geneva hosted an event to present ENERGISE
On March 26, 2019, the University of Geneva hosted an event to present the unique ENERGISE approach to reducing energy usage in the home. Also there is a video link available here on the ENERGISE rollout in Switzerland.
Hungarian ELL participants plant native trees to help offset the carbon footprint of a project meeting
The ENERGISE consortium is well aware of the fact that all our activities within the project have certain environmental burdens on our planet. That is why we are trying to reduce these burdens and if possible compensate them by the aid of calculating the events' carbon footprint.
Save the date for the ENERGISE final conference on 15 October 2019
The ENERGISE final conference is open to all interested parties, and will actively encourage positive interaction between actors from society, academia, the policy arena and industry related to social and cultural influences on energy use.
ENERGISE Policy brief and recommendations
In the framework of Work Package 3 a new policy brief is available.
Designing future energy policies: ENERGISE at the final SHAPE ENERGY conference
On 22 January 2019 ENERGISE lead Dr Frances Fahy will be participating and presenting in Brussels at the final SHAPE ENERGY conference. The overall objective of the event is to help create better energy policies with contribution from social sciences and humanities.
Advancing Energy Policy, a new book
Audley Genus, of Kingston University, attended the launch of a book edited by members of the Shape Energy Horizon 2020-funded platform for inter-disciplinary research on energy. The event took place at University of Cambridge and chapter contributors were invited to give a talk about their contribution to the book and take part in a discussion of the book’s themes and possible impact.
ENERGISE publications: our recent papers, reports and deliverables
Since the publication of our previous newsletter, we have made several deliverables, papers and reports available on the ENERGISE website, please visit our publications space online.