How do Collective Action Energy Projects Engage Citizens and Encourage Participation?
Collective action energy projects put citizens at the centre of the energy transition. These include energy cooperatives, associations and ecovillages. But how do initiatives like these effectively engage with local comm...
Collective Action Initiatives in the Energy Transition: Five Key Takeaways from the COMETS Project
Addressing the climate emergency requires immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors. This calls for an unprecedented transformation of our energy system and a massive uptake of renewable energy.
The rece...
COMETS Mid-term Conference is happening!
The Mid-term conference of the COMETS Project is happening today, presenting the results and joining 56 participants in a joint reflection on Collective Action Initiaves for the Energy Transition!
Bellow is the Agenda.
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Replay Session #4 Building our Knowledge Commons
On January 27th 30 people connected with community-led initiatives – researchers, activists, practitioners and those who were simply curious – joined the fourth Communities for Future Session focused on Build...
Interested in Consortium Benchmarking?
The COMETS project is using the methodology of Consortium Benchmarking to understand how can collective action initiatives contribute to the energy transition and how can they get better in doing so. (more…)
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COMETS 1st National Workshops
COMETS 1° National Workshop (Webinar)
COLLECTIVE ACTION INITIATIVES
IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Tuesday 16 and Friday 19 june, 2020
10.00 – 13.00
THE COMETS PROJECT
COMETS is a Horizon 2020 project aimed...
Practical solutions on energy technologies
There is a whole world of information to compile in order to support collective action initiatives for the energy transition. The Permaculture Institute UK has embraced this challenge of compiling knowledge and resources...
New Survey on Collective Action Initiatives
What is the role of collective initiatives in the energy transition in Europe? Answering this question is one of the main objectives of a European project entitled COMETS. This project is special because its approach pro...
EU strategy on energy sector integration open to new ideas
The European Commission has published on its website that it is asking citizens and stakeholders for input and opinions on the strategy of energy sector integration. The European Commission will present a strat...
