Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. CSA aims to tackle three main objectives: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; adapting and building resilience to climate change; and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.

Join us to explore what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. In this online session, we will hear stories from three Communities of Practice from the ECOLISE network. These CoPs bring people with a shared passion to learn, experiment and innovate together. We explore what makes it inspiring to be part of a CoP, how CoPs can organize themselves effectively, and how they make an impact. We will explore the idea of establishing a ‘CoPs ecosystem’ within the Communities for Future framework. We discuss the benefits and requisites for multilateral collaboration between different CoPs, weaving pieces together for a broader systemic view and pathways to societal transformation at large. We are excited to have you co-creating this vision further with us! The CoPs that were presented in our launching event are: – UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities) – Municipalities in Transition – BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition). What is a Community of Practice (CoP)? A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who “share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” (E. & B. Wenger-Trayner 2020). Beyond tangible outputs like innovative tools, methods, products or improved processes, a CoP has the potential to widen perspectives, change behavior and mindsets on an individual and collective level and can thus be considered as system shifting. Originally CoP participants were from the same business, organisation or academic departments who would meet regularly face to face. Nowadays CoPs are taking shape both within organisations and between organisations as well as within and across disciplines and sectors. In socio-ecological transition movements – such as permaculture, transition networks and eco-villages – CoPs have the potential to become systems and spaces that have real power and influence. Pioneering efforts that have hovered at the periphery can become the norm and practices developed by courageous communities can become accepted standard. When people have environments in which they can learn and explore with ease and curiosity, they no longer hesitate about adopting new approaches and methods. (BLAST CoPs guide, draft V1.0)

Siin grupis on võimalik jagada enda kogemusi energiaühistute teemadel. Samuti saab siin küsida abi ja nõu kõiges, mis on seotud energiaühistutega.

Welcome to the COMETS group for Spain. Here you can network with other energy communities and share experiences that can help you in your development. Feel free to ask for help and advice in everything related to energy communities. Thank you for joining. Your participation here is valuable!

Information on and access to funding opportunities (in particular crowdfunding)

Welcome to the COMETS group for Nederlands. Here you can network with other energy communities and share experiences that can help you in your development. Feel free to ask for help and advice in everything related to energy communities. Thank you for joining. Your participation here is valuable!

A continuously updated glimpse on the relevant EU Policy Documents and the JRC Reports

PROSEU - PROSUMERS FOR THE ENERGY UNION- is an EU-funded research project, bringing together eleven project partners from seven European countries. It aims to enable the mainstreaming of the renewable energy Prosumer phenomenon into the European Energy Union. Prosumers are active energy users who both produce and consume energy from renewable sources. This group will compile key PROSEU outputs for enabling a prosumer-led energy transition.

Innovation and practices on non-industrial, small farm and household anaerobic digesters

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