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

1. SSH needs to feature more explicitly in Horizon Europe’s energy research and innovation funding opportunities, compared to Horizon 2020.2018-10-05T10:17:11+01:00

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

2. Critical SSH issues – e.g. political, ethical, historical, cultural, institutional – need to be more fully recognised by and integrated into technical energy projects.2018-10-05T10:19:40+01:00

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

3. Horizon Europe energy calls should explicitly consider which SSH disciplines they may be excluding, and seek to address this.2018-10-05T10:20:51+01:00

4. Energy-SSH expertise must be better represented within Horizon Europe’s proposal evaluator databases and panels.

Key points: 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

4. Energy-SSH expertise must be better represented within Horizon Europe’s proposal evaluator databases and panels.2018-10-05T10:21:49+01:00

5. SSH should feature in energy projects’ concepts, not only as a tool to generate impact.

Key points: Horizon 2020 – and most likely soon for Horizon Europe – proposals include both ‘concept’ and ‘impact’ sections. SSH must feature in the foundational arguments that interdisciplinary energy project proposals are based on, and hence evaluators should

5. SSH should feature in energy projects’ concepts, not only as a tool to generate impact.2018-10-05T10:22:46+01:00

7. Qualitative indicators and disciplinary reflections are needed for the European Commission to more meaningfully monitor the successful integration of SSH in energy projects.

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.

7. Qualitative indicators and disciplinary reflections are needed for the European Commission to more meaningfully monitor the successful integration of SSH in energy projects.2018-10-05T10:24:33+01:00
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