View and sign our ‘Research & Innovation Agenda 2020-2030’ which highlights how energy-SSH can be better embedded into energy policymaking, innovation and research over the next decade:
Horizon Europe is the EU’s upcoming major research funding programme (Framework Programme 9), running from 2021 to 2027, and will allocate almost €100 billion. Horizon Europe will continue the tradition of structuring funding calls around global challenges such as energy, and the current proposals include a Climate-Energy-Transport cluster.
Research findings from the energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (energy-SSH*) are fundamental to understanding and meeting energy policy challenges. Neglecting SSH insights – for example into the social, political, historical and psychological dimensions of energy transitions – risks failing to meet Europe’s ambitious visions for its energy future.
However there is a large gap between energy-SSH research and strategic energy policy bodies in terms of common working agendas. Building on input from a diversity of well over 10,000 stakeholders over two years, we present here SHAPE ENERGY’s specific recommendations to fill this gap.
These seven principles outline clear actions for European funders, policyworkers and researchers to support a more impactful role for energy-SSH in defining the energy agenda over 2020-2030. A clear reference point for these principles – given its significance – is the upcoming Horizon Europe programme.
Already supported by numerous signatories, we invite you to add your support. These will be submitted to the European Commission’s strategy unit for Energy Research and Innovation (within DG RTD) in January 2019, with an update given in spring 2019.
*SHAPE ENERGY works across the full range of Social Sciences and Humanities, including energy-related research (both current and potential) within: Business, Communication Studies, Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Social Science, Gender, History, Human Geography, Law, Philosophy, Planning, Politics, Psychology, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Policy, and Theology.
1SSH must feature more explicitly in Horizon Europe’s energy research and innovation funding opportunities, compared to Horizon 2020.
● Whilst there has been tangible progress in the mainstreaming and monitoring of SSH during Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), energy-SSH remains significantly underfunded. In 2016, only 4% of the EU’s Horizon 2020 energy research programme budget went to SSH partners, with 96% to STEM** partners with an emphasis on new energy technology development projects. SHAPE ENERGY advocates an ambition to double SSH partners’ share to 8% through Horizon Europe.
● Whilst SSH disciplines are diverse, they all place societies and humans (and how they interact with the energy system) centrally. We argue that ‘solutions’ to energy challenges must explicitly consider how energy is actually integrated within society.
● This means there is a need for both interdisciplinary (across SSH and STEM) and SSH specific calls, as in Horizon 2020. More, however, could be done to deepen SSH’s role in such interdisciplinary projects (see Principle 2) ensuring SSH does not only play a subordinate role.
● One specific way to achieve this is to reduce the number of ‘SSH-flagged’ calls, but ensure those that are flagged have very clear detail on where and how SSH is expected to be significant part of the work plan.
** Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Foulds, C., Robison, R., Balint, L. and Sonetti, G., 2017. Headline reflections – SHAPE ENERGY Call for Evidence. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Strom, T.B., Lemaire, C., Zacna, J., Arango Montanez, J. and Birnbaum. B.I., 2018. Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budget and Disciplines – 3rd Monitoring report on SSH flagged projects funded in 2016 under the Societal Challenges and Industrial Leaderships priorities. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission.
Birnbaum. B.I., Keraudren, P., Strom, T. and Vavikis, T., 2017. Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budget and Disciplines – 2nd Monitoring report on SSH-flagged projects funded in 2015 under the Societal Challenges and Industrial Leaderships priorities. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
“Anfinsen, M. and Heidenreich, S., 2017. Energy & gender – a social sciences and humanities crosscutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.”
Büscher, C. and Sumpf, P., 2017. Energy & multi-stakeholder interests – a social sciences and humanities cross-cutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Fox, E., Foulds, C. and Robison, R., 2017. Energy & the active consumer – a social sciences and humanities cross-cutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Sari, R., Voyvoda, E., Lacey-Barnacle, M., Karababa, E., Topal, C. and Islambay, D., 2017. Energy justice – a social sciences and humanities cross-cutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
2Core SSH issues need to be more deeply integrated into technical energy projects which seek to address societal challenges.
● Technical energy projects that include meaningful consideration of SSH issues – e.g. political, ethical, historical, cultural, institutional – benefit from being more societally relevant and increasing the robustness and real-world impact of their findings.
● Funders are increasingly aware of the risks of not including SSH perspectives, including that problems will arise when trying to embed technological energy solutions in real organisational, cultural, or economic contexts. However, the European Commission could produce more in-depth guidance on what is expected from a project which has been ‘SSH-flagged’.
● The energy-SSH field is highly active and diverse. However, from outside, the field is often seen as only playing certain roles, e.g. education and awareness-raising to change energy behaviours or encouraging market uptake of new energy technologies. Technical energy projects need to start to go beyond this (see following point).
● Energy stakeholders involved in SHAPE ENERGY activities highlighted a wide variety of SSH areas of focus which are important on-the-ground, including: vision-building, inclusion/ exclusion, collaborations, power relations, responsibility, citizenship, policy(making), governance, planning and legal frameworks, employment, poverty, stakeholder dialogue, institutional rise and fall, politicisation of research, production of evidence, societal risks, public participation, negative societal impacts.
● Matchmaking Horizon Europe days should facilitate meetings between different disciplines, and explicitly discuss the added value diverse SSH disciplines bring to energy topics.
Robison, R., Dupas, S., Mourik, R., Torres, M., and Milroy, E., 2018. Europe’s local energy challenges: stories and research priorities from 17 multi-stakeholder city workshops. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Mourik, R., Jeuken, Y., de Zeeuw, M., Uitdenbogerd, D., van Summeren, L., Wilhite, H., Robison, R., Heidenreich, S., Blahová, M., Pidoux, B., Kern-Gillars, T., Arrobbio, O., Sonetti, G., Throndsen, W., Fox, E., Nikolaev, A., Radulov, L., Sari, R., Sumpf, P. and Balint L., 2017. Energy efficiency and using less – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Heidenreich, S., Throndsen, W., Sari, R., Sonetti, G., Ryghaug, M., Kern-Gillard, T., Arrobbio, O., Mourik, R. and Nikolaev, A., 2017. Competitive, secure, low-carbon energy supply – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Sumpf, P., Klemm, M., Throndsen, W., Büscher, C., Robison, R., Schippl, J., Foulds, C., Buchmann, K., Nikolaev, A. and Kern-Gillard, T., 2017. Energy system optimisation and smart technologies – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Buchmann, K., Robison, R. and Foulds, C., 2017. Transport sector decarbonisation – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Robison, R. and Foulds, C., 2017. The SHAPE ENERGY academic workshop – current landscapes and future directions for European energy research. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
3 Horizon Europe energy calls should explicitly consider which SSH disciplines they focus attention on, and report on how this is being addressed.
● The wording of funding calls dictates (and limits) the disciplinary approaches that can be taken. As such, call texts – for example a focus on ‘social acceptance’ – engage certain energy-SSH research communities more than others.
● The wording of calls are not currently monitored for which disciplines they seek to include, however there is monitoring of how much funding different disciplines ultimately receive. In particular, the Humanities (e.g. History, Theology/Ethics) receive much less policy attention and tangible research funding than the Social Sciences (e.g. Economics, Business Management) despite having active energy-related research communities working on understanding and facilitating energy transitions.
● Thus, during the process of developing Horizon Europe calls, there needs to be clearer assessment of which disciplines are being prioritised, and therefore which areas of SSH insight may be underrepresented. This links to having more experts involved in these process, including in review panels for call wording (see Principle 4).
● The European Commission’s monitoring of SSH within Horizon Europe could usefully include assessment of call wording by SSH experts (external to the Commission) to indicate which disciplines they prioritise, and which active energy-SSH areas are not covered.
Foulds, C. and Robison, R., 2017. The SHAPE ENERGY Lexicon – interpreting energy-related social sciences and humanities terminology. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Foulds, C. and Christensen, T.H., 2016. Funding pathways to a low-carbon transition. Nature Energy, 1(7), 1-4.
Anfinsen, M. and Heidenreich, S., 2017. Energy & gender – a social sciences and humanities crosscutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Büscher, C. and Sumpf, P., 2017. Energy & multi-stakeholder interests – a social sciences and humanities cross-cutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Fox, E., Foulds, C. and Robison, R., 2017. Energy & the active consumer – a social sciences and humanities cross-cutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Sari, R., Voyvoda, E., Lacey-Barnacle, M., Karababa, E., Topal, C. and Islambay, D., 2017. Energy justice – a social sciences and humanities cross-cutting theme report. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
4The European Commission should more actively recruit energy-SSH expertise for Horizon Europe’s proposal evaluator databases and panels.
● Those evaluating EU funding proposals play a powerful role in determining what constitutes e.g. rigorous, credible, robust, meaningful and even achievable energy research, and therefore in determining which proposals are funded.
● Energy-SSH researchers need to be more embedded within these discussions, not least when decisions regarding what energy-SSH research and innovation should be funded. Every Horizon Europe energy evaluation panel should have SSH expertise represented within it.
● The European Commission is only able to invite an (energy-SSH) expert to evaluate proposals if they are already signed up to their database of experts. Better representation of diverse disciplines in these databases is therefore essential, alongside other priorities such as gender representation.
● The European Commission should ensure that its expert registration webpages align with SSH expertise. For example, the drop-down options for detailing energy research expertise are dominated by STEM-led categories which do not sufficiently cater for SSH, with ‘Energy Economics’ the only explicit energy-SSH disciplinary label given.
● The European Commission should transparently publish and widely advertise (aggregate) annual figures for the disciplinary backgrounds of their evaluators, in the same way that they produce monitoring reports on the disciplinary background of partners in successful project consortia.
SHAPE ENERGY’s energy-SSH researcher database
European Commission sign-up webpage to join database of independent experts (used for e.g. proposal evaluation)
5SSH should feature in interdisciplinary energy projects’ concepts (i.e. setting the project direction), not only as a tool to generate impact (i.e. an add-on at the end).
● Horizon 2020 – and most likely soon for Horizon Europe – proposals include both ‘Concept’ and ‘Impact’ sections. Projects which seek meaningful interdisciplinary working across STEM and SSH must incorporate this into the foundational arguments that project proposals are based on, and hence evaluators should expect SSH to be explicitly integrated into Concept sections in those cases.
● SSH is not merely of value for impact, where e.g. SSH is used for public acceptance, communications and dissemination that target the market uptake of a new technology.
● For Horizon Europe, the European Commission should give clear guidance as to what their ‘mainstreaming’ ambitions for SSH actually means when it comes to evaluation of inclusion of SSH within project proposal plans. More broadly, the integration of disciplinary approaches into the fundamental research questions (which guide a project’s overall direction) should be explicitly welcomed.
● Projects should remain critical of the need and mode of interdisciplinary working employed. Proposals should be explicitly invited to discuss what type of collaborative working they seek, why, and how, and any novelty in what they are proposing. SSH is particularly powerful in considering the different ontologies (ways of viewing the world) and epistemologies (ways of viewing knowledge) that different disciplines bring.
Arrobbio, O., Sonetti, G. and Foulds, C., 2018. The SHAPE ENERGY Horizon 2020 Sandpits: key findings. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Winskel, M., (2018). The pursuit of interdisciplinary whole systems energy research: Insights from the UK Energy Research Centre. Energy Research & Social Science, 37, 74-84.
6Energy-SSH tasks should be undertaken by those with relevant background and training.
● Energy-SSH expertise requires learnt skills. Training in SSH methods matters if rigorous and robust SSH research is to be conducted, which can bring increased policy impact. For example, including a survey in a project requires a Social Science partner with knowledge of survey design, sampling, analysis techniques, etc.
● Energy-SSH training includes study of both methodology (i.e. what different methods can reveal) and methods (i.e. practically how you collect good data and undertake rigorous analysis).
● Communications Work Packages of (energy) projects should include partners with Social Science expertise in stakeholder engagement, communication studies, participatory methods and/or practical experience. It is not a simple case of ‘anyone can do communications’.
● Coordinators of interdisciplinary (energy) projects need to invest time in understanding the different disciplinary approaches their project is utilising.
Ortar, N., Burguet, D., and Robison, R., 2018. Bringing Social Sciences & Humanities into H2020 energy projects: Early-Stage Researcher internship diaries. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Danglade, R., Robison, R., Balint, L., Foulds, C., Garzón, O., Torres, M., Furrer, N., Kanani, D., Andre, I. and Bentz, S 2018. Communicating the SHAPE ENERGY H2020 project – Strategies for dissemination and exploitation in the coming year. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Sovacool, B.K., Axsen, J. and Sorrell, S., 2018. Promoting novelty, rigor, and style in energy social science: Towards codes of practice for appropriate methods and research design. Energy Research & Social Science, 45, 12-42.
7Qualitative measures are needed for the European Commission to meaningfully monitor the successful integration of SSH in energy projects.
• Monitoring SSH integration needs to include qualitative measures of success, and not be restricted to a number-counting exercise of e.g. project numbers, partners, and budget spends. For example, how has different types of expertise been brought together, rather than separated out into silo-ed work packages? What has the inclusion of SSH-inspired interdisciplinary aims, processes, and outputs led to? How has working with SSH enabled energy projects to affect policy? Relevant qualitative indicators systematically developed by the European Commission, and case study examples, could also then be valuably used in other contexts.
• Guidance to proposal writers and evaluators should make clear that qualitative impact measures and/or process-led objectives are welcomed within project proposals. For example, learning from failures is not facilitated within the European framework programmes and this can inhibit interdisciplinary efforts (which carry a higher risk of failure). Evaluation could allow for more experimentation, when accompanied by reflexive monitoring reports.
• Certain parts of the way SSH integration is monitored within European framework programmes do not fit with current academic structures. For example, Demography is an official discipline being monitored by the EC, yet conventionally is often situated within university Geography departments. All Humanities and Arts are currently combined into one category, whereas they are of course a very diverse set of disciplines.
• There must be better recognition of interdisciplinary expertise, which cannot be comfortably assigned to the European Commission’s standardised list of disciplines. Relatedly, SSH monitoring currently relies on manual assessment by the Commission of disciplinary expertise of research teams; including a component of self-evaluation could strengthen this process.
• Evaluation of the ‘Implementation’ section of interdisciplinary Horizon Europe proposals should consider the mechanisms proposed for effective collaboration. The Coordinator or Work Package leaders responsible for interdisciplinary working need to demonstrate relevant expertise, including working with conflict laden and reflexive processes.
Foulds, C., and Robison, R. eds., 2018. Advancing Energy Policy: Lessons on the Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sumpf, P. and Büscher, C. eds., 2018. SHAPE ENERGY Research Design Challenge: Control, change and capacity-building in energy systems. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
Strom, T.B., Lemaire, C., Zacna, J., Arango Montanez, J. and Birnbaum. B.I., 2018. Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budget and Disciplines – 3rd Monitoring report on SSH flagged projects funded in 2016 under the Societal Challenges and Industrial Leaderships priorities. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission.
Birnbaum. B.I., Keraudren, P., Strom, T. and Vavikis, T., 2017. Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020: Participants, Budget and Disciplines – 2nd Monitoring report on SSH-flagged projects funded in 2015 under the Societal Challenges and Industrial Leaderships priorities. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
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Signatories include:
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Kamaljit Singh | Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra |
| Alessia Baratto | |
| Anna Bernhard | |
| Ruta Vanaga | |
| Manfred Paier | AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH |
| Ioanna Kyprianou | The Cyprus Institute |
| Jan Frankowski | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| Brian MacNamee | Consulteco |
| Mauro Sarrica | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Farid Karimi | Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science |
| Maëlle Caussarieu | aalborg university |
| Ana Horta | University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences |
| Philipp Späth | Freiburg University |
| Sioned Haf | Ynni Sir Gâr / Carmarthenshire Energy |
| Giuseppe Bellantuono | University of Trento |
| Marence Miroslav | IHE Delft |
| Romain Riollet | CLER - French Energy Transition Network |
| Douglas Halliday | Durham University, UK |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Sönmez | METU NCC Mechanical Engineering |
| Semra ASCIGIL | METU |
| Saskia Lavrijssen | Mevr. |
| Massimiliano Montini | University of Siena |
| Anders Melin | Malmö University |
| Břetislav Dančák | Masaryk University |
| Aleh Cherp | Central European University |
| Annika Weiss | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| Goda Perlaviciute | University of Groningen |
| Mohamed El Mankibi | ENTPE |
| Stefan Bouzarovski | University of Manchester |
| Michael Bradshaw | University of Warwick |
| Ute Dubois | ISG International Business School |
| Nicky Dean | Nature Energy |
| Lorraine Whitmarsh | Cardiff University |
| Aurèlia Mañé-Estrada | University of Barcelona |
| Rodrigo Lozano | University of Gävle |
| Aleksandra Lis | Adam Mickiewicz University |
| Ugo Bardi | University of Florence |
| Gaye Teksöz | METU |
| Celal Karpuz | Middle East Technical University |
| Erkan Erdil | Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University |
| GIOVANNI | MAROCCHI |
| CEM IYIGUN | Middle East Technical University |
| Ceren Vardar Acar | Middle East Technical University |
| Hayriye Kahveci | Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus |
| Inge Røpke | Aalborg University |
| Mattijs Smits | Wageningen University and Research |
| Beatriz Pineda Revilla | University of Amsterdam |
| Manon Piazza | EHESS |
| Barbara Curli | University of Turin, Italy |
| Paul Bowens | Durham Energy Institute (DEI) |
| Richard Hoggett | University of Exeter |
| Brendan Challenger Mills | Durham University |
| Padmasai Lakshmi | UNEP-DTU Partnership, Copenhagen |
| Le Gallic Thomas | LVMT |
| Dr. Vidar Hepsë | Equinor Research and Technology |
| Baruti Likoyi | Recherches et Documentation Juridiques Africaines asbl |
| Elisabeth Dütschke | Fraunhofer ISI |
| Laura Vanhué | Centre de Recherches Urbaines |
| Christian Heinz | ECR Group |
| Farahnaz Pashaei Kamali | Delft University of Technology |
| Oliver Rapf | BPIE |
| Renata Mele | Enel X |
| Stefano Magariello | Global Sustainability Institute - Anglia Ruskin University |
| Sarmīte Rozentāle | Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences |
| Derya Kumtepe | Turkish Research and Business Organisations |
| Lorcan Lyons | European Commission Joint Research Centre |
| Eleanor Batilliet | FleishmanHillard |
| Laura Brossico | UNICA |
| Miran PLETERSKI | PEMicon |
| Liz Newmark | Freelance Journalist |
| Laura caldera | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| Manop Sittidech | Royal Thai Embassy in Brussels andThailand Mission to the Eu |
| Sarah Glück | Zeppelin University |
| David Tucek | Tomas Bata University in Zlin |
| Testa Benedetta | Regione Campania |
| Johanna Pacevicius | Assembly of European Regions |
| Judith Estol | Generalitat de Catalunya |
| Katarzyna Faruga | Lower Silesia Regional Office |
| Jacques de Gerlache | GreenFacts |
| Ana Rankovic | SEE Change Net |
| Sabina Potestio | WindEurope |
| Eszter Fay | European Parliament |
| Paola Mazzucchelli | EUREC |
| Elena Scaroni | Lighting Europe |
| Maria Swiatkiewicz-Mosny | Jagiellonian University |
| Davide Lanzillotti | Brulocalis |
| Garret Patrick Kelly | SEE Change Net |
| Julius P. Wesche | Utrecht University |
| Stephen Cook | Arup |
| Selam Mebrahtu | Strategic Design Scenarios |
| Sébastien Garnier | Housing Europe |
| Roxana Dela Fiamor | European Commission |
| Kristian krieger | Catholic University |
| Santoire Emmanuelle | ENS de Lyon |
| Magnus Grage | Heinrich Boell Foundation European Union |
| Aleksandra Lis | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| Furrer Nathalie | Friends of Europe |
| Sanne van der Mijl | Rijkswaterstaat |
| Derk Loorbach | DRIFT |
| Peter Deeney | Dublin City University |
| Liam Barrett | Welsh Higher Education in Brussels (WHEB) |
| Laura Garcia Moreno | Exki |
| Laetitia Garcia | Friends of Europe |
| Thomas Bauwens | Utrecht University |
| Gerd Schönwälder | European Commission |
| Lorcan Lyons | |
| Sveatoslav Postoronca | Institute of Power Engineering |
| Mak Dukan | Technical University of Denmark |
| Rob Ackrill | Nottingham Trent University |
| Tanja Winther | University of Oslo |
| Rodrigo Matus | Durham University |
| Karen Yadira Gonzalez-Trapero | Durham University |
| Tripura Thakur | MANIT Bhopal, India |
| NAVEEN KUMAR PAPACHARYULA | Durham University |
| Lynn Gibson | Durham Energy Institute |
| Chris Jones | Gutteridge Haskins & Davey |
| Julia Wittmayer | DRIFT, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Griet Verbeeck | Hasselt University |
| Parotte | Spiral Research Center, ULiège, Belgium |
| Loïc Cobut | Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles |
| Sreenivas Chigullapalli | IIT Bombay |
| Marie Claire Brisbois | Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex |
| Filipe Rego | Aston University |
| Ingvild Firman Fjellså | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Elena Dinubila | CED-Bordeaux University |
| Håvard Tangvik | NTNU |
| Giudici-Orticoni | CNRS |
| Dechézelles Stéphanie | Sciences Po Aix |
| Martinais | ENTPE |
| Kimberley O'Sullivan | University of Otago |
| Govert Valkenburg | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Ivano Scotti | University of Pisa |
| Teva Meyer | Université de Haute-Alsace |
| Rex Martin | RMIT |
| Samuela Vercelli | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Ivana Suboticki | Department of interdisciplinary studies of culture, NTNU |
| Xinfang Wang | University of Birmingham |
| Vebjørn Bakken | University of Oslo |
| Knut H. Sørensen | NTNU |
| Victoria Plutshack | Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance |
| Bård Torvetjønn Haugland | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Bastien Fond | Augsburg university |
| Andreas Lindemann | University of Edinburgh |
| DESTAIS | Université Grenoble Alpes |
| Tom Bragg | Cambridge Carbon Footprint |
| Sergi Moles-Grueso | CEU |
| Sergio Tirado Herrero | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) |
| Johannes Kester | Aarhus University |
| Lior Herman | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Emily Judson | University of Exeter |
| Gareth Thomas | Cardiff University |
| Philippa Roddis | University of Leeds |
| Marco Sonnberger | University of Stuttgart, ZIRIUS - Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies |
| M. Derya Tarhan | University of Toronto |
| Raphael Klein | EPFL |
| Darrick Evensen | University of Edinburgh |
| Mary Pothitou | Miss. |
| Suzi Billing | Scottish Association for Marine Science |
| Claudio Cometta | Zurich University of Applied Science |
| Cajsa Bartusch | Uppsala University |
| Charlotte Jensen | Aalborg University Copenhagen |
| Steffen Boehm | UNIVERSITY OF EXETER |
| Dr. Lisanne Groen | Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| Mathieu Blondeel | Ghent University |
| Zakia Soomauroo | Reiner Lemoine Institut / TU Berlin |
| Gul Ozerol | University of Twente |
| Pellegrino Margot | Upem France |
| Prof Dr Paul Upham | Leuphana University |
| Jonas PIGEON | |
| Brians | Independant researcher |
| Ilaria Perissi | University of Florence (Italy) |
| Aviel Verbruggen | University of Antwerp |
| Xabier Uriarte | TECNALIA |
| Luís Silva | Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA / NOVA FCSH) |
| Dr A T MOORE | Ex Councillor Cambridge City Council |
| Mette High | University of St Andrews |
| Pablo Laguna | IHEAL |
| Dr Tomas Maltby | King's College London |
| Simon Peter Aslak Kondrup Larsen | Aalborg University |
| Dr Rachel Howell | University of Edinburgh |
| Nathalie Manrique | Université Paris 8 |
| Julia Tomei | UCL |
| Gary Raw | University College London |
| Edwin Schmitt | University of Oslo |
| Gonzalo Esteban López | Granada Energy Agency |
| Leclercq | Sociotopie - Grands Ensemble |
| TOCHEVA Detelina | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France |
| Sheryl French | CAmbridgeshire County Council |
| Marta Lopes | IPC-ESAC, INESC Coimbra |
| Dimitra KOUMPAROU | Hellenic Open University |
| Sara Momi | ETA-Florence Renewable Energies |
| Jeronimo Vida Manzano | University of Granada and Granada Local Agenda 21 |
| Gloria Pignatta | UNSW SYDNEY |
| Sarah Royston | Dr |
| Juan Rico | Atos Spain |
| Sam Hampton | University of Oxford |
| Filippo Zerilli | University of Cagliari |
| Fiona Brocklehurst | Ballarat Consulting |
| Diana Mihaela Tirca | "Constantin Brancusi" University of Targu-Jiu |
| Oscar W Fitch-Roy | University of Exeter |
| Victoria Taranu | UHasselt |
| Paulo Peixoto | Universidade de Coimbra |
| Vilja Varho | Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) |
| Nils Borg | European Council for an energy efficient economy – eceee |
| Rihab Khalid | University of Cambridge |
| Dr Hannes Stephan | University of Stirling |
| MARTIN Antoine | Université de Lorraine |
| Cruz E. Borges | Fundación Deusto |
| Ebru Voyvoda | Middle East Technical University |
| Dilge Kanoglu | University of Texas at Austin |
| Elza Lőw | Friends of Europe |
| Gerard Huerta | Friends of Europe |
| Gergana Milanova | Friends of Europe |
| Nassim Bounya | Friends of Europe |
| Robert Arenella | Friends of Europe |
| Sara Dominguez | Friends of Europe |
| Eleanor Doorley | Friends of Europe |
| Arnaud Bodet | Friends of Europe |
| Demet Islambay | Middle East Technical University |
| Melek Akin Ates | Middle East Technical University |
| Adil Oran | Middle East Technical University |
| Deniz Demircioglu | Middle East Technical University |
| Cagatay Topal | Middle East Technical University |
| Utku Ay | Middle East Technical University |
| Ramazan Sari | Middle East Technical Universityt |
| Clara Casert | Friends of Europe |
| Vincent Lagendijk | Maastricht University |
| Görkem Güngör | Middle East Technical University |
| Furrer | Friends of Europe |
| Tina Schivatcheva | Free University of Berlin |
| Andrzej Ceglarz | Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University Munich |
| Éva Andrzejewski | Université de Lyon, École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État |
| Soroush Golnoush | Politecnico di Torino |
| Jessica Balest | EURAC Research |
| Giulia Mariangela Mininni | Keele University |
| Pasi Toivanen | University of Tampere |
| Javanshir Fouladvand | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
| Fulvio Biddau | University of Padova |
| Penelope Buckley | Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory |
| Sybille Reitz | Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University Munich |
| Qiu Chen | Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn |
| Katerina Zharan | TU Bergakademie Freiberg |
| Adven Masih | Ural Federal University |
| Miriam Aczel | Imperial College of London |
| Valeria Guerrieri | Copenhagen University |
| Verdeil Eric | Sciences Po |
| Marine Cornelis | www.marinecornelis.com |
| Patrick Sumpf | KIT |
| Claire Roumet | Energy Cities |
| Magdalena Baborska-Narożny | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology |
| Katarina Larsen | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| Julian Hanna | Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute |
| Giacomo Poderi | IT University of Copenhagen |
| Franco Ruzzenenti | Groningen University |
| Alicia Smedberg | Malmö University |
| Hans Jakob Walnum | Western Norway Research Institute |
| Alevgul Sorman | Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) |
| Christine Milchram | Delft University of Technology |
| Carolin Märker | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| Pierre Wokuri | Arènes |
| Timo von Wirth | Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) |
| James Auger | Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute |
| Diana Neves | Technical University of Lisbon |
| Ann Light | University of Sussex |
| Anne Schiffer | Leeds Beckett University |
| Mary Greene | NUI Galway |
| Yael Parag | Interdisciplinary Center - Herzliya |
| Shiri Heffer | Ministry of Environmental Protection |
| Kat Buchmann | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Gesche Huebner | University College London |
| Marcel Schweiker | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Sonja Oliveira | University of the West of England |
| Nives DellaValle | Institute for Renewable Energy – Eurac Research |
| Michael Fell | UCL Energy Institute |
| Jens Schippl | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Aleksandra Lis | Jagiellonian University |
| Wagner Aleksandra | Jagiellonian University |
| Dharmendra Kanani | Friends of Europe |
| Julie Bolle | Friends of Europe |
| Susanna Lidström | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| Stephanie Weir | Heriot-Watt University |
| Ryan Wyeth | Durham University |
| Ross Gillard | University of Leeds |
| Matthew Ives | University of Oxford |
| Luis Carvalho | University of Porto |
| Koen Straver | ECN part of TNO |
| Inês Campos | University of Lisbon |
| Igor Nikolic | Delft University of Technology |
| Glen Wright | Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations |
| Frankie McCarthy | University of Glasgow |
| Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker | Club of Rome |
| Dan van der Horst | Edinburgh University |
| Ciara O’Dwyer | University College Dublin |
| Tina Fawcett | University of Oxford |
| Laura Watts | Edinburgh University |
| Donal Finn | University College Dublin |
| Marina Topouzi | University of Oxford |
| Sarah Higginson | University of Oxford |
| Rhys Howell | University of Edinburgh |
| Ruth Brennan | Trinity College Dublin |
| Sandy Kerr | Heriot-Watt University |
| Margot Weijnen | Delft University of Technology |
| Ralitsa Hiteva | University of Sussex |
| Victoria Pellicer | Spanish Research Council (CSIC) |
| Lucie Middlemiss | University of Leeds |
| Claudia Binder | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| Joeri Wesseling | Utrecht University |
| Marfuga Iskandarova | Kingston University |
| Senja Laakso | University of Helsinki |
| Ethemcan Turhan | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| Stefania Barca | University of Coimbra |
| Professor Gavin Bridge | Durham University |
| Kacper Szulecki | University of Oslo |
| Ronan Bolton | University of Edinburgh |
| Johanna Höffken | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Sarah Darby | University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute |
| Marcello Graziano | Central Michigan University |
| Gary Goggins | National University of Ireland Galway |
| Harald Rohracher | Linköping University |
| Frances Fahy | National University of Ireland |
| Lidia Borrell-Damián | European University Association |
| Carlos Andrade- Cabrera | University College Dublin |
| Bernhard Truffer | Utrecht University |
| Antti Silvast | Durham University |
| Anna Åberg | Chalmers University of Technology |
| Brian Wynne | Lancaster University |
| Bruno Turnheim | King’s College London |
| Audley Genus | Kingston University |
| Begüm Özkaynak | Boğaziçi University |
| Benjamin Sovacool | University of Sussex |
| Carina Mnich | KIT |
| Christian Buescher | KIT |
| Hanne Silje Hauge | NTNU |
| Francesca Abastante | POLITO |
| Emmet Fox | Global Sustainability Institute, ARU |
| Melanie Rohse | Global Sustainability Institute |
| Anne Marie O’Hagan | University College Cork |
| Sarah Bentz | Friends of Europe |
| Sarah Higginson | Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, University of Oxford |
| Felicity Clarke | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Lenka VÝSTUPOVÁ | Tomas Bata University |
| Přemysl Pálka | Tomas Bata University |
| Max Lacey-Barnacle | Cardiff University |
| Martin Anfinsen | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) |
| Rebecca | Global Sustainability Institute |
| Roger A. Søraa | NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Marius Korsnes | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Ugur Soytas | Middle East Technical University |
| Steven Ward (student) | Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University. |
| Marianne Ryghaug | NTNU |
| Michaela Blahová | Tomas Bata University |
| Tomas Moe Skjølsvold | NTNU |
| Lina Ingeborgrud | NTNU |
| Bob Evans | Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University |
| Eva Jurickova | Tomas Bata University in Zlin |
| Davide Natalini | Global Sustainability Institute |
| Zarko Ilievski | MACEF |
| Victoria Circus | The University of Sheffield |
| Stefano Magariello | Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University |
| Lyulin Radulov | Black Sea Energy Research Centre |
| Dušan Hrabec | Tomas Bata University |
| Alison Greig | Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University |
| Ahmed Badr | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Raphael Danglade | Friends of Europe |
| Rebecca Spannenkrebs | |
| Viera Pechancova | Tomas Bata University in Zlin |
| Nikoleta Jones | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Garcia Moreno Laetitia | Friends of Europe |
| Zareen Bharucha | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Professor Aled Jones | Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University |
| Denisa Hrušecká | Tomas Bata University |
| Mariya Trifonova | Sofia University |
| David Skinner | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Marthe Krijger | Friends of Europe |
| Emma Milroy | Anglia Ruskin University |
| isabelle roland | friends of europe |
| Sylvia Breukers | DuneWorks |
| Lauren Stabler | Global |
| Eva Juřičková | Tomas Bata University |
| Vera Genadieva | Black Sea Energy Research Centre |
| Nicoleta Ion | ENERO |
| Mariska De Zeeuw | YACHT |
| Giulia Sonetti | Politecnico di Torino |
| Dejan Ivezic | University of Belgrade |
| Mihai Tirsu | Institute of Power Engineering, Moldova |
| Maria Andreeva | Black Sea Energy Research Centre |
| Luc van Summeren | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Angel Nikolaev | Black Sea Energy Research Centre |
| Maria Torres Senes | Acento Comunicación |
| Osman Arrobbio | University di Torino |
| Sara Monaci | Politecnico di Torino |
| Costanzo Mercugliano | Politecnico di Torino |
| Nathalie Ortar | ENTPE |
| Diana Uitdenbogerd | |
| Isabella Lami | Politecnico di Torino |
| Chris Foulds | Global Sustainability Institute, ARU |
| Yvetter Jeuken | Duneworks |
| Patrizia Lombardi | Politecnico di Torino |
| Kinga Kovacs | Energy Cities |
| Francisco Gonçalves | Energy Cities |
| Maurer | Energy Cities |
| Stéphane Dupas | Energy Cities |
| Sonia Moreno Molinero | Acento Comunicación |
| borja izaola | ecooo revolución solar |
| Olga Garzón | ACENTOLINE |
| Sonia Moreno | Acento Communication |
| Susan Bright | University of Oxford |
| Sara Heidenreich | NTNU |
| Ruth Mourik | Duneworks |
| Coralie ROBERT | PhD Student - Université Paris Nanterre |
| Angela Pauly | Friends of Europe |
| Ginevra Papi | Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) |
In addition, representatives from the following organisations directly participated in the following SHAPE ENERGY multistakeholder city workshops which fed into this Research & Innovation Agenda (above):
Representatives from 167 additional organisations also fed in
| Organisation | Workshop |
| Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia Business School Novi Sad | Belgrade |
| Acwapower International llc | Ankara |
| ADENE – agencia para a energia | Lisbon |
| AECOM | Cambridge |
| Agencia de Vivienda y Rehabilitación de Andalucía (Junta de Andalucía) | Granada |
| Agencia Provincial de la Energía (Diputación de Granada) | Granada |
| Agency for Energy Efficiency | Chisinau |
| Agenda Local 21 (Granada City Council) | Granada |
| Agropodnik – a.s. | Zlin |
| AIESEC Torino | Turin |
| Alvieteh Ltd | Chisinau |
| Amt für Umweltschutz | Heidelberg |
| ANCE Torino | Turin |
| API Torino | Turin |
| APPC Torino e Valle d’Aosta | Turin |
| Ascom Confcommercio Torino | Turin |
| Asociación Almanjáyar en Familia (NGO) | Granada |
| Association City Hub | Brasov |
| Association of Energy Consumers in Moldova | Chisinau |
| Attac | Heidelberg |
| Autonomous Administration of Transportation Brasov | Brasov |
| Banco BPI | Lisbon |
| Banco Santander Totta | Lisbon |
| BANKIA (Corporate Social Responsibility Department) | Granada |
| Beogradske elektrane | Belgrade |
| Besteforeldrenes klimaaksjon | Trondheim |
| Blijstroom, Eneco (Het Breed) | Utrecht |
| Bring | Trondheim |
| Camara Municipal de Lisboa | Lisbon |
| Cambridge and County Developments | Cambridge |
| Cambridge Architectural Research | Cambridge |
| Çankaya Municipal Authority | Ankara |
| Carbon Neutral Cambridge | Cambridge |
| Cátedra HIDRALIA | Granada |
| Center for Climate Change | Skopje |
| Center for Environmental and Sustainabiltiy Research (CENSE) Nova University of Lisbon | Lisbon |
| Centre of Engineering and Product Development (CeiiA) | Lisbon |
| CGIL Torino | Turin |
| Chamber of Environmental Engineers | Ankara |
| CICODE | Granada |
| Çiğdem (Education, Environment and Support Association) | Ankara |
| CISL Torino-Canavese | Turin |
| City of Belgrade | Belgrade |
| City of Kraljevo | Belgrade |
| City of Niš | Belgrade |
| City of Petrovac | Belgrade |
| City of Šabac | Belgrade |
| City of Skopje including the Energy Efficiency Sector and Environmental Sector | Skopje |
| CLUSTER Construcción Sostenible de Andalucía | Granada |
| CMS | Belgrade |
| Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa | Lisbon |
| Comune di Torino – Circoscrizione IV | Turin |
| CooperaSE (energy cooperative) | Granada |
| Council of European Grandmothers | Trondheim |
| Czechinvest | Zlin |
| CZT Valašské Meziříčí s.r.o. | Zlin |
| Departamento de Planeamento | Lisbon |
| Direcao Municipal de Urbanismo | Lisbon |
| DirecaoGeral do Territorio | Lisbon |
| DRR.RO | Brasov |
| Ecological Institute Veronica | Zlin |
| Efektiva | Belgrade |
| EKODENGE | Ankara |
| Eko-Svest | Skopje |
| el Defensor del Ciudadano (Granada ombudsman) | Granada |
| ENDESA | Granada |
| Energoplan | Chisinau |
| Energy Agency of the Zlín region | Zlin |
| Energy and Transport | Belgrade |
| EnerjiSA | Ankara |
| ENOVA | Trondheim |
| ESCO Moldova | Chisinau |
| ETIMADEN | Ankara |
| ExploHeidelberg | Heidelberg |
| FACUA Granada (consumers’ association) | Granada |
| Federation of Cambridge Residents’ Association | Cambridge |
| Fordham University at Lincoln Center – New York | Zlin |
| forum cidadania | Lisbon |
| Gemeente Utrecht and Vergunningen | Utrecht |
| Gestão do Arrendamento da Habitação Municipal de Lisboa (GEBALIS) | Lisbon |
| Gewerbeaufsicht und Energie | Heidelberg |
| Granada Red Cross | Granada |
| Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership | Cambridge |
| Greens of Serbia | Belgrade |
| HCE Heidelberg | Heidelberg |
| HfWU Nürtingen Geislingen | Heidelberg |
| Hill | Cambridge |
| Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung | Heidelberg |
| Institute of Public Polices | Chisinau |
| Institute of Social Sciences of Lisbon University | Lisbon |
| International Balkan University | Skopje |
| KEFF Rhein-Neckar | Heidelberg |
| Lademoen Vel | Trondheim |
| Legacoop Piemonte | Turin |
| Lyon Metropolis | Lyon |
| Max Fordham | Cambridge |
| Metropolitan Development Agency of Brasov (AMB) | Brasov |
| Milieu Advie | Utrecht |
| Ministerie BZK | Utrecht |
| Ministerie BZK, Overvecht | Utrecht |
| Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning | Skopje |
| Turkish Ministry of Development | Ankara |
| Turkish Ministry of Economy | Ankara |
| Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources | Ankara |
| Serbian Ministry of Mining and Energy | Belgrade |
| Municipality of Aerodrom | Skopje |
| Municipality of Bod | Brasov |
| Municipality of Brasov | Brasov |
| Municipality of Kisela Voda | Skopje |
| Lisboa Camara Municipal | Lisbon |
| NAF – Sentralt | Trondheim |
| NAF avd. Sør-Trøndelag, NIT | Trondheim |
| National Agency for Regulation in Energy | Chisinau |
| National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG) | Lisbon |
| Nature Conservation Centre | Ankara |
| North West Cambridgeshire Development | Cambridge |
| Open University | Cambridge |
| Ordem dos Arquitectos – Seccao Regional Sul | Lisbon |
| OSTIM – Renewable Energy Cluster coordinator | Ankara |
| päd-aktiv | Heidelberg |
| Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso | Turin |
| Pertek Electric | Ankara |
| Posten | Trondheim |
| RdA Climate Solutions | Lisbon |
| Regional Development Agency – Centru | Brasov |
| Riga Technical University | Riga |
| Rigas Namu Parvaldnieks | Riga |
| Rigas Siltums | Riga |
| SDEWES Skopje | Skopje |
| Secretariat for Environmental Protection | Belgrade |
| Secretariat for Utility | Belgrade |
| SETEM (NGO) | Granada |
| Seven Solutions | Granada |
| Stadt Heidelberg | Heidelberg |
| Stadtwerke Heidelberg | Heidelberg |
| Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities | Belgrade |
| State Energy Inspectorate | Chisinau |
| Statens Vegvesen | Trondheim |
| Sykkelsentralen (The Bicycle Central) | Trondheim |
| Technical University of Moldova | Chisinau |
| Telekom Serbia | Belgrade |
| Tepelné hospodářství Hradec Králové – a.s. | Zlin |
| Termoelectrica S.A. | Chisinau |
| THK Aircraft Maintenance Technical Services | Ankara |
| TNO | Utrecht |
| Toezicht en Handhaving Gemeente Utrecht | Utrecht |
| Town of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm | Zlin |
| Town of Valašské Meziříčí | Zlin |
| Transition Cambridge | Cambridge |
| Trøndelag Fylkeskommune (Trøndelag Regional Municipality) | Trondheim |
| TrønderTaxi | Trondheim |
| TRT WORLD | Ankara |
| TUBITAK | Ankara |
| Ungdommens bystyre (the City Council for the Youth) | Trondheim |
| Unione Industriale Torino | Turin |
| Unione Nazionale Consumatori | Turin |
| University Transilvania Brașov | Brasov |
| Vegan in Heidelberg e.V. | Heidelberg |
| VISUM Association | Brasov |
| Volkshochschule Heidelberg | Heidelberg |
| VRD Stiftung für Erneuerbare Energien | Heidelberg |
| Wijkbureau | Utrecht |
| Wijkondersteuning | Utrecht |
| Woonbond | Utrecht |
| WWF Turkey | Ankara |
| Zero | Lisbon |
| ZIRIUS Universität Stuttgart | Heidelberg |