20 May 2021

• social empowerment,
• social impacts,
• social and stakeholders engagement,
• social, cultural and historical context,
• technology,
• decision making,
• regulatory framework,
• financial and innovative business models.

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.

28 January 2021
Online

Local Energy Communities can play a crucial role in the energy transition by providing flexibility services and orchestrating decentralised energy resources to provide a cost-efficient and secure electricity supply and guarantee a stable grid, while at the same time promoting the consumption of energy produced at km0 and empowering local actors, thus increasing the social impact and cohesion of the communities.

16 - 19 June 2020
Webinar

6 workshops will be held in the 6 countries involved in COMETS’ namely Spain, Belgium, Holland on the 16^th of june and Italy, Poland and Estonia on the 19^th 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.

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

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.

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?

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!

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

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).

26-27 September 2019
University of Salerno (IT)

The conference ‘Politics, Ecology and Society in the Anthropocene’, focused on the ways political, social and ecological relations are being rearranged in the era known as Anthropocene. Osman Arrobbio, from University of Turin presented the main findings of the first COMETS' scientific deliverable D2.1 ‘Collective Action Initiatives’

Abstracts due April 30, 2021

Event: 13 - 16 September 2021

University of Manchester, UK

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. 

27-30 October 2020
Online

Exciting presentations and discussions on topics related to Local Energy Communities, Circular Economy, Digital Twins, BIPV, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure.

8-9 October 2019
Krakow  (PL)

Wit Hubert (Jagiellonian University, Poland) was present at the second ‘Energy trend’ (Trendy energetyczne) Congress, held in Krakow on 8-9 October 2019 . The Congress focused on the most relevant processes that are taking place and on their consequences for the Polish energy sector in the next five to twenty years.

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