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International ENERGISE team launches new online interactive dataset which maps over 1000 sustainable energy initiatives across Europe!

In response to the increasingly urgent climate change challenge, the European Commission is promoting several climate and energy targets with the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonise the economy. However, the current pace and scale of change is insufficient to achieve the necessary sustainability transitions in the energy system; there is an increasing realisation that meeting energy targets is highly dependent on several complex aspects of final energy consumption patterns or energy demand.

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Envisioning sustainable lifestlyes - searching for projects and initiatives

GreenDependent participates as an advisor in one of the projects (Envisioning Future Low-Carbon Lifestylesof UNEP's 10 year framework programme on „Sustainable Lifestyles and Education”. In this project we are looking for sustainable lifestyle projects and intiatiatives from around the world and are asking implementers to please fill in a questionnaire about their projects.

What is the questionnaire looking for?

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Compete4SECAP national kick-off meeting

The national kick-off meeting of the Compete4SECAP project was held in Hungary on 28 March 2018.

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How much energy do we need?!: EnergyNeighbourhoods launches a social media campaign

After 4 successful seasons the energy saving programme ’E.ON EnergyNeighbourhoods’ will be launched for the 5th time in autumn 2018, organised by GreenDependent Institute and the E.ON Hungaria Group. The programme's main objective is to promote low-carbon and green lifestyles among families, households and small communities.

As a new element, this year a 9-week social media (Facebook) campaign is implemented from the end of March in the frame of which interesting and useful tips, articles and news are shared on the programme’s social media page about gadget-free entertainment, hot water use, washing and a lot more. By applying these tips and following the advice provided, everyone can discover and map their household consumption as well as save considerable amount of energy at home.

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ENERGISE paper in GAIA Special Issue on Real-World Labs – Open Access !!!

How can we accelerate transformations towards more sustainable societies and transfer existing knowledge into action? Establishing society-based labs, where societal and scientific actors jointly experiment in real-world contexts, are one popular answer. The new GAIA special issue focuses on reflections and empirical insights regarding labs in the real world and builds bridges among the growing research community.

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Vision catalogue and Citizen-based topics for future EU research - important outputs of the CIMULACT project are available

Two important output documents of the CIMULACT project - which built on an extensive multistakeholder consultation process - are now available for download :

* the CIMULACT Vision Catalogue, which includes the 179 visions created by 1088 citizens in 30 EU countries; and

* the 23 Citizen-Based Topics for Future EU Research that is a collection of the research topics developed based on the citizen visions through further multi-step stakeholder consultation.

If you need more information, do not hesitate to write to us!

Alternatively, you can visit the CIMULACT website.

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Citizens as co-creators of responsible research agendas for a sustainable future

Aiming to contribute to addressing the call for a closer connection between EU-funded research and societal needs, the CIMULACT project embarked on an extensive participatory initiative, including citizens, experts, policy makers and other stakeholders from across Europe. Numerous face-to-face meetings and a large-scale online consultation were implemented in 30 European countries to develop directions for future research, which are based on citizens’ visions and aspirations for the future.

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New book on social innovation and sustainable consumption

As part of the Routledge SCORAI Studies on Sustainable Consumption series, a new book was published in January 2018 by a group of SCORAI Europe researchers including GreenDependent research director Edina Vadovics.

In addition to being part of the team of editors, Edina Vadovics also co-authored a chapter with GreenDependent expert Simon Milton.

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GreenDependent endorses the Manifesto for Transformative Social Innovation

Transformative Social Innovation TheoryThe Manifestor for Transformative Social lnnovation was created in the TRANSIT project in which GreenDependent expert Edina Vadovics was an advisory board member. We endorse the Manifesto as we very much agree with its objectives and what it says - please consider joining us!

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The EU considers citizens' views when setting research priorities

The most recent CIMULACT newsletter has been published in which we provide information about our dissemination activities: how and where the project consortium is disseminating, on the one hand, the project methodology (multiactor consultation), and, on the other, the outcomes and results of the multistep consultation process.

The newsletter can be found and downloaded from the CIMULACT website along with other interesting project publications.

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