The final event of the Horizon 2020 ENCLUDE project was held successfully on the 25th of September at Brussels, Belgium. The event brought together a dynamic community of stakeholders, researchers, policymakers, and it was truly inspiring to celebrate the achievements and impacts made possible by this project.
During the event partners presented lessons learnt and key insights from their work aiming to co-produce strategies for mobilising and scaling up energy citizenship initiatives for just and inclusive energy transitions.
Our team, represented by Professor Dr. Alexandros Flamos and Dr. Vassilis Stavrakas, participated at the event and shared insights about the assessment of the decarbonisation potential of the different manifestations of energy citizenship at different scales of interest and decision-making contexts across the European Union.
In particular, Professor Dr. Alexandros Flamos chaired the session “Energy citizenship for inclusive and just transition: Topic #2 – “What have we learned about Energy Citizenship that can be implemented by others?”, which was about energy citizenship and transdisciplinary mixed methods and tools in support of practitioners wanting to initiate energy initiatives of their own and for those who want to support them. During this session, Dr. Vassilis Stavrakas presented a set of outcomes from a series of modelling applications in different real-life case studies.
More specifically, Dr. Vassilis Stavrakas’ presentation shed light on findings from an interdisciplinary multi-model journey, which comprises:
- A framework for transformative scenario design, which couples “people-centred” storylines based on social innovations of energy citizenship with “future-world” narratives based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).
- Driving factors and citizen personas in support of the further diffusion and growth of Collective Energy Initiatives, like energy communities and ecovillages, in Europe by 2030, using the grassroot innovation diffusion model ANIMO.
- Citizen-led transitions towards justice and inclusivity, and the “green” rebranding of a Coal and Carbon Intensive Region into a city of the people, by the people, for the people, using the dynamic high-resolution demand-side management model DREEM.
- “Power to the People” transitions by 2050 in different European Union’s cities, empowering prosumerism and citizen investments in small-scale photovoltaic and storage systems, using the agent-based technology adoption model ATOM and the dynamic high-resolution demand-side management model DREEM.
- Combining “Power to the People” with “People to the Streets” storylines towards citizen-preferred and 100% renewable-based national energy systems using the OSeMOSYS-GR model- a country-specific implementation of the OSeMOSYS modelling framework for the case of Greece.
Find the full presentation here.
You can also find more details about these modelling applications here and here!
A heartfelt thank you to all our colleagues and partners that contributed to ENCLUDE!
Their support, dedication, and passion have been invaluable! Together, we have set the groundwork on how to integrate citizens into the transformation of the energy system! This journey may be complete, but the impact continues!
