Are energy companies charging too much?
Join the debate! Should bills be capped? Or would that discourage much-needed investment and slow the transition to green energy?
Blog: Energy Policies Outside the Silos
By Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Club of Rome - 'We seem to be in a philosophical crisis where our societies fail to address the problems that threaten their survival. The world needs a ‘new enlightenment’... '
What would it take for you to give up your car?
Should we all be using our cars less? Or are we focusing too much on decarbonising the transport sector and not enough about other, more carbon-intensive sectors?
Blog: Making Multiple views count
By Gerd Schönwälder, European Commission - 'The transition to a cleaner, greener energy system profoundly affects not just individual lifestyles and livelihoods but entire societies, economies, even political systems.'
Blog: Multidisciplinary Partnerships for Access to Energy
By Lidia Borrell-Damián, European University Association - 'The transition towards a carbon-neutral society requires the collective effort of all of us.'
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Join us for our end of project conference in Brussels! The one-day conference will be split in two: a morning policy summit and interactive afternoon sessions.
1. SSH needs to feature more explicitly in Horizon Europe’s energy research and innovation funding opportunities, compared to Horizon 2020.
Key points: Energy-SSH is 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 primarily looking to develop new energy technologies. Whilst SSH disciplines are
2. Critical SSH issues – e.g. political, ethical, historical, cultural, institutional – need to be more fully recognised by and integrated into technical energy projects.
Key points: The energy-SSH field is highly active and diverse. However, understandably, those outside the field often immediately think of one or two key roles – e.g. education and awareness-raising to change energy behaviours; or encouraging market uptake of
3. Horizon Europe energy calls should explicitly consider which SSH disciplines they may be excluding, and seek to address this.
Key points: Within SSH disciplines, certain disciplines are even more underrepresented than others. 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). The wording