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CIMULACT - GreenDependent's new H2020 project

GreenDependent's new research project start in the summer of 2015. CIMULACT has as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation – Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on real and validated societal visions, needs and demands. More details can be read here.

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Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Open Doors Days in 10 European countries

Nearly Zero Energy Buildings will be the European standard in 2021. The challenge is big, but it can be done! Forerunners from all over Europe are showing us the way. Come and learn from their experiences.  

Visit today the buildings of tomorrow!

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GreenDependent at the international Degrowth conference

A GreenDependent szakértői, Vadovics Edina és Vadovics Kristóf részt vettek a 2014. szept. 2-6. között Lipcsében megrendezett nemzetközi Degrowth (nemnövekedés) konferencián. A környezet- és társadalomtudatos módon, a résztvevőket is bevonva megrendezett konferencián közel 3000 szakértő, kutató, döntéshozó, gyakorlati szakember, aktivista, diák és művész vett részt, hogy számtalan szakértői, gyakorlati és művészeti programon megvizsgálja, megvitassa és átélje a "nemnövekedés" elméleti és gyakorlati megvalósítását.

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GreenDependent is involved in several projects studying social innovation: URBACT and TRANSIT

IMG_2415 Edina Vadovics is a key expert in an EU project (URBACT Capitalization: Social Innovation in Cities) studying, evaluating and promoting social innovation in cities. The objective of the project is to collect and evaluate the social innovation related experience in projects supported through the URBACT framework, supplement them with experience from similar programmes in order to reflect on the lessons learnt and ensure that other cities can benefit from these experiences and adapt  to their own context the solutions to urban challenges developed within the programme.

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GreenDependent expert presented at the climate adaptation forum

On the initiative of the European Commission and Milieu Ltd. a forum was organized on 26-27 June 2014 in Budapest for important stakeholders in the field of climate change adaptation. Apart from the presentation, review and discussion of current policies, research results, relevant programmes in the field, the forum provided an opportunity for introducing and discussing the Climate-ADAPT website (clearinghouse).

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GreenDependent expert co-authored the JRC's new report on ESCOs

The European Commission DG JRC analyses and researches the activities and development of ESCO as part of Scientific & Technical Reference System on Renewable Energy and Energy End-use Efficiency in order to provide accurate information to policy makers, experts and other interested parties. The latest ESCO Market Report for the EU Member States and neighbouring countries, relative to the market situation in year 2013, is now available.

Beningna Boza-Kiss, an expert associated with GreenDependent, co-authored the report.

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The CONVERGE e-book, "Equity within Limits", is listed among the good examples on the Democracy and Sustainability platform

Themes infographicMembers of the Democracy and Sustainability Platform are individuals, organisations, alliances and networks who care about democracy, sustainability, and the links between them.

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Resource efficiency - what can NGOs and non-profit organizations do?

In the framework of the PRESOURCE project, at an expert workshop, we delivered a presentation on what NGOs and not-for-profit organizations can do for improving resource efficiency.

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Our article in the Journal of Cleaner Production

A joint article of Edina Vadovics - Research Director of GreenDependent Insitute - and her international colleagues has been published in Journal of Cleaner Production in April 2013.

The title of the article is"Learning about and involving users in energy saving on the local level" and it can be downloaded.

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The Convergence Mapping System, a sustainability evaluation tool, was introduced in Prague and Istanbul

We reported earlier that in the framework of the CONVERGE project, GreenDependent Institute elaborated a special evaluation, or rather a mapping system to

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