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Workshop: "Collective Action Initiatives in the Energy Transition"

19 June 2020 from 10:00am to 1:00pm
COMETS (COllective action Models for Energy Transition and Social Innovation)

The first National workshop (webinar) "Collective Action Initiatives in the Energy Transition", within the COMETS project, will be held on Friday 19th June at 10:00 a.m.

 

COMETS (COllective action Models for Energy Transition and Social Innovation) is a Horizon 2020 project aimed at understanding, and possibly help to remove, the barriers that might hamper the active involvement of citizens in the energy transition.
Coordinated by the University of Turin, COMETS involves 12 partners from 8 European countries and it will last until April 2022. Through a complex work plan that includes diverse research tools and approaches (from massive data collection to in-depth reconstruction of case studies ) COMETS will make it possible to advance in the knowledge of the potential, objectives and conditions that can affedct the spread of Collective Action Initiatives (CAI) in the energy sector, i.e. energy communities, cooperatives, purchasing groups and other similar entities. This new knowledge will therefore be the basis for the co-design and validation of tools to support the development of the CAIs in close collaboration with decision makers (public and private), the scientific community and with the CAIs themselves.

 

This first National Workshop will be held in the 6 countries involved in COMETS’ namely Spain, Belgium, Holland on the 16th of June and Italy, Poland and Estonia on the 19th of june. The objective of the workshop is the discussion of some specific and urgent issues regarding the mechanisms that can facilitate the launch and growth of the CAI in the energy field with the ambition to collect ideas to mitigate the risks of failure. 

 

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