COMETS FINAL EVENT
28-29 April 2022
Hybrid event
(Brussels & Online)
This two-day online event will draw on and present nearly three years of work and research that the four sister projects have spearheaded.
You can already preview the agenda by clicking here. But be sure to check back often – we’ll be making speaker announcements soon!
European Sustainable Energy Week
25-29 October 2021
Online
Towards 2030: Reshaping the European Energy System
COMETS Mid-Term Conference + EERA e3s Joint Programme event
20 May 2021
Engaging and Empowering Citizens in the Energy Transition through Social Innovation
- social empowerment,
- social impacts,
- social and stakeholders engagement,
- social, cultural and historical context,
- technology,
- decision making,
- regulatory framework,
- financial and innovative business models.
Kick-off meeting of the Italian National Research Team
19 January 2021
Online
Seventeen people participated in the Kick-off Meeting of the Italian National Research Team (Gruppo di Ricerca Partecipata) in representation of 11 initiatives, associations and institutions. The meeting was introduced and facilitated by Osman Arrobbio, Anna Novaresio and Alessandro Sciullo from the University of Turin. Chiara Candelise (Bocconi University) presented a summary of the main results of the Survey (publicly available soon here). Participants were then divided into three groups where they could discuss about what they consider the most important aspects facing Energy Collective Action Initiatives in the Italian context.
The 1st COMETS National Workshop
16 - 19 June 2020
Webinar
6 workshops 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.
If you are interested in exploring the potential of community-based initiatives in the energy transition, this workshop will be an excellent opportunity to acquire updated information on the current and future challenges facing the CAI.
It is an excellent opportunity to become part of the COMETS community and get in touch with experts and stakeholders to start the construction of new networks which, hopefully, we could soon feed by meeting in person.
SSH project Clustering Event at INEA (Innovation and Networks Executive Agency)
27 September 2019
Brussels
Alessandro Sciullo, from University of Torino, presented COMETS in the clustering event in Brussels. A nice opportunity to connect COMETS with other ongoing sister projects with the final objective to bridging activities, objectives and communication & dissemination strategies
Energy and Society in Transition: 2nd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science
28-31 May 2019
Arizona State University, Tempe (AZ)
The conference was the very first opportunity to present COMETS, that had been launched the week before in Torino, where the Kick Off Meeting took place on 20-21 may.
On the road to a successful Energy Community: Identifying & overcoming potential barriers and challenges
15 February 2022
Online
COMETS – EERA e3s Joint Event at the European Sustainable Energy Week
21-22 October 2021
Online
Engaging and Empowering Citizens in the Energy Transition through Social Innovation
COMETS will be co-facilitating a session at EUSEW with EERA e3s along with sister projects NEWCOMERS,SocialRES, SONNET
Registration is now open for our EUSEW event
Fifth Energy and Society Conference
10-12 February 2021
Online
The theme of the conference calls into question how discourses about energy transition have been put into practice. As the “world’s hunger for energy” still appears to be increasing, the transition to clean sources of energy will need to be “revolutionary”, requiring the transformation of forms of social organization (Davidson and Gross, 2018). And yet, what is actually changing? And what impacts is the pandemic and its economic effects having on energy transition?
The European Week of Regions and Cities
5-22 October 2020
Online
The conference is spread over three consecutive weeks (Oct 5-22). Each week is dedicated to one timely topic: Empowering Citizens, Cohesion & Cooperation, Green Europe. Register today!
Symposium ‘Paradigms, Models, Scenarios and Practices for strong sustainability’
4-6 December 2019
ERASME, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
The symposium, organised by the Jean Monnet Excellence Centre on Sustainability and Platform 21, is aimed at emancipating the notion of sustainability from being associated with the mere concept of sustainable development in order to address the multidimensional challenges of the moment. COMETS consortium will present 2 contributions on quantitative and qualitative aspects on the relevance and perspectives of Collective Action Initiatives in the energy field
ASSET Roadshows: 1st Event
18 November 2019
Milan (IT)
The first Roadshow event of ASSET, a H2020 sister project, will take place in Milan (Italy) on 18 November 2019. The next Roadshow events will take place in Madrid (Spain) and Brussels (Belgium).
Energy Research Talks Disentis 2022
26 - 28 January 2022
Hybrid
(Disentis, Switzerland & Online)
The “Energy Research Talks Disentis” are hold on a yearly basis and enable an international and interdisciplinary exchange between researcher on various energy subjects, thus making a valuable contribution to the energy transition.
COMETS will be presenting examples from the Frontier Case Study report.
Comunità per l'Energia ed energia per la comunità
Communities for Energy and Energy for the community
24 - 25 September 2021
Turin, Italy
Part of COMETS dissemination and communication of research results to the public at large, consortium partners will be presenting posters and flyers about energy communities and collective action in the energy field.
This will be held at the "Notte Europea Dei Ricercatori"/ Night of the Researchers in Turin, Italy
European Sociological Association conference 2021
31 August - 3 September 2021
Online
The biennial ESA conferences provide the possibility for sociologists and social scientists from Europe and beyond to present their work and participate actively in discussions.
* COMETS presented results in several sessions
3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science
13 - 16 September 2021
University of Manchester, UK & Online
The 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science opened the abstract submission for Energy and Climate Transformations.
The conference will highlight and explore the grand societal challenges arising at the interface of global energy transformations on the one hand, and ongoing climate mitigation and adaptation efforts on the other. It will offer a vibrant and innovative forum for presenting and discussing cutting edge research on the movement towards a low carbon future as it relates to reconfigurations in energy policies, infrastructural landscapes, socio-technical systems, and social practices.
Sustainable Places event 2020
27-30 October 2020
Online
Exciting presentations and discussions on topics related to Local Energy Communities, Circular Economy, Digital Twins, BIPV, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure.
International Conference on New Pathways for Community Energy and Storage
6-7 June 2019
University of Groningen (NL)
The conference was aimed at exploring new and innovative socio-technological energy configurations at local and regional level including energy storage. Alessandro Sciullo, from University of Torino, took the opportunity to present the just started COMETS to the scientific community
For general information about COMETS: info@comets-project.eu
For specific details coordinator@comets-project.eu