Project News

The ENERGISE consortium is well aware of the fact that all our activities within the project have certain environmental burdens on our planet (CO2 emission, waste, energy use, etc. due to our project meetings, workshops, conferences, Living Labs, ordinary work in the office).

During 2017, WP2 has carried out a systematic criteria-guided review of existing sustainable energy consumption initiatives (SECIs) from 30 European countries, which is synthesized in a comprehensive database.

On October 26-27, 2017 at Sciences Po Bordeaux (France), Marlyne Sahakian and Laure Dobigny of the University of Geneva ENERGISE team presented some initial results in a workshop titled "Deconstructing Participatory Climate Governance: Innovation or Business as Usual?".

Opportunities for households to change their energy use vary significantly across Europe as well as within European countries.

Following the completion and circulation of the ENERGISE conceptual framework in July 2017, Work Package 1 leaders at LMU Munich have now switched their focus to further investigating energy-related practice cultures, including the diverse meanings attached to the performance of practices as well as variations in rebound effects and sufficiency thinking.

On October 2nd Dr Frances Fahy presented on “Ruptures and Routines, Energy Use in an Island Life” at the 2017 ERSCP conference in Greece.

On August 30th, Dr Frances Fahy presented on the ENERGISE project the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017. The chair’s theme for the 2017 Annual Conference was “Decolonising geographical knowledges: opening geography out to the world.”

On the 27th of October 2017, RISE Interactive and the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology jointly hosted a workshop during Dutch Design Week at the Designhuis in Eindhoven.

Dr. Judith Igelsböck and Laura Zölzer, both working at the MCTS Post/Doc Lab Engineering Responsibly of the Technical University Munich, gathered an international group of social scientists, design researchers and a professor of digital media and performing arts in Munich for two-days to explore intervention as a mode of research.

Our Finnish partner (University of Helsinki) organises a working group session at the 'Environmental Politics, Economy and Knowledge' Colloquium. Please see below their call.

Members of the ENERGISE team organised a session on ‘Energy Consumption Transitions and Social Change’ at the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Production and Consumption (GRF-SPaC) “Sustainable Lifestyles, Livelihoods and the Circular Economy” conference.

The ENERGISE consortium welcomes tenders for the development of an Online Database till 20 August 2017. Details can be read in the tender call.

More information on the calls- including FAQ - are here.

 

 

We have issued our first ENERGISE Newsletter which is available. Enjoy reading it.

 

Charged with leading the delivery of the conceptual framework document for the ENERGISE project, the Work Package 1 (WP1) team from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) presented a finalised draft document at the recent ENERGISE Partner meeting held in Dublin (June 1st-2nd).

Reducing household energy consumption is a longstanding effort in Europe. Various measures like the provision of feedback have been found to be successful and render small savings in energy consumption. Yet we often don’t know what people actually did differently after starting to receive the feedback.

WP2 is developing a systematic criteria-guided review of existing sustainable energy consumption initiatives (SECIs) from 30 European countries.

Audley Genus and Charlotte Jensen have had a jointly authored paper accepted by the Journal of Consumer Culture. The title of the paper is: “The Institutionalisation of Practice: the case of Energy Efficient Lighting in Denmark”.

Audley Genus was invited to give a talk in January 2017 at the prestigious Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at University of Manchester. He spoke about the need for and difficulties of institutional change in a changing climate, referring to projects he has undertaken in relation to community energy and creating ‘eco-neighbourhoods’.

This event – organised jointly by ENERGISE researcher Audley Genus and the Carbon Trust – and held at Kingston University in London in April – aimed to show how small/ new businesses can reduce energy use, lower costs and improve their reputation.

ENERGISE was presented at the ‘Towards Zero’ SEAI's National Deep Retrofit Conference 2017, Dublin, 21 June.