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Sustainable Consumption and Social Justice in a Constrained World

As a member of SCORAI Europe, GreenDependent Institute is co-organizing a scientific workshop with the above title directly before the 5. International Degrowth Conference in Budapest. Among other issues, we will be discussing the following topics and questions:

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ENERGISE - We will launch our new H2020 project soon

Considerable challenges remain today regarding Europe´s transition towards a decarbonised energy system that meets the economic and social needs of its citizens. Rebound effects, that is, a full or partial cancelling-out of efficiency gains over time through increased overall energy use, highlight the centrality of consumption in multi-scalar decarbonisation efforts, urgently requiring attention from scientists and policy makers. Calls also abound for innovative, research-led programmes to enhance the social acceptability of energy transition measures that involve new technologies.

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CIMULACT policy brief - No.1

30 European Citizen consultations were organised by the CIMULACT partners and about 1000 cintizens' views were collected into 180 citizens' visions to provide contribution to the objectives of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) of the EC.

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Save@work trainings in March


Save@work is a European Union funded (H2020) initiative which helps public buildings reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions in nine countries. GreenDependent Institute is one of the partners in the international consortium coordinating the energy saving efforts of civil servants. Altogether there are 18 buildings participating in the friendly competition in Hungary with almost 1900 employees from all around the country. The competition officially started on 1 March, so GreenDependent held the Starting Event on 11 February in Budapest, where we invited the Energy Teams – groups of the most enthusiastic employees in each building – and leaders of the participating institutions.

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Vision generation and research calls within Horizon2020: the 2nd newsletter of the CIMULACT project is here!

In January 2016, within the framework of the CIMULACT (Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon2020) project the GreenDependent team held the Hungarian Citizen Vision Workshop. Similar workshops using the same consultation methodology were held in 30 European countries by the CIMULACT consortium. The 2nd newsletter of the project reports on this and the continuation of the work with the citizen visions:

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EUFORIE: country reports available on household energy efficiency

GreenDependent experts József Szlezák and Edina Vadovics co-authored of the energy efficiency country report on Hungary prepared within the framework of the European EUFORIE (Europen Futures for Energy Efficiency, Horizont2020) project. The report provides a summary of household (and community) energy efficiency through providing information on the level of awareness of households, reviewing relevant legislation, actions as well as various public, private and community initiatives. In relation to the latter the report lists and provides basic information on initiatives by companies, entreprises and nonprofit organizations, and also mentions research projects and alternative energy future scenarios.

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SCORAI Europe: new workshop proceedings are available on degrowth, sustainable consumption and social innovation

GreenDependent Institute research director Edina Vadovics is member of the steering committee of the international SCORAI Europe (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) network, and thus participates in the organization of various international workshops in the field of sustainable consumption. Following each workshop SCORAI Europe publishes the workshop proceedings in electronic format. Apart from the papers and discussant presentation summaries the proceedings also include the notes of the discussion at the workshops.

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Report on the CIMULACT Citizen Vision Workshop held in Budapest

The GreenDependent team held the Hungarian Citizen Vision Workshop on 9 January 2016 in Budapest with the participation of 36 citizens from all over the country. The English language report - including the six visions created - is available on the CIMULACT website.

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Degrowth Conference Budapest 2016: Call for special session

We are pleased to announce the call for special sessions for the 5th International Degrowth conference. The submission platform will be open soon, please follow the updates here.

The upcoming conference will be a forum to present the latest in global degrowth thought and practice, and bring it into dialogue within the specific context of Central and Eastern Europe of the 21st century. In this respect, the conference will be organised around 12 themes which reflect the context of the conference and the open issues of the degrowth movement that were highlighted at the preceding conference in Leipzig.

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Call for abstracts: "Beyond" Transition? Understanding and Achieving Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation

As members of the SCORAI Europe (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) network and advisor to the TRANSIT (Transformative Social Innovation Theory) European research and development project, GreenDependent experts are participating in the organization of a workshop entitled "‘Beyond’ Transition? Understanding and Achieving Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation".

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