The ENERGISE project aimed at challenging energy practices in eight European countries. One crutial element of the project was the so-called 'living laboratory' or living lab methodology. This is a relatively new reseach method in which experiments are carried out under real conditions, with real households. In the scope of ENERGISE, the experiments focused on the intention of households to take challenges related to heating and laundry as well as to monitor whether they are able to meet these challenges.
A detailed description of Living Labs is available HERE, where we can follow the whole methodology step-by-step.
Documents designed for these particular living labs (surveys, diaries, inverviews, leaflets etc.) are available HERE.
A short, subtitled video is available about the entire ENERGISE project, introducing the three-year long programme aiming at promoting energy reduction in households in the 8 participating countries.
The sixth season of E.ON EnergyNeighbourhoods (which is actually the eighth season of the program, the first two seasons were part of a bigger international cooperative project under the EU) has just started in September.
In response to the increasingly urgent climate crisis, the European Commission is promoting several climate and energy targets with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonising the economy. However, the current pace and scale of change is insufficient to achieve the necessary sustainability transitions in energy systems. Increasingly, households are seen as playing a role in energy transitions – which implies challenging social norms and habits around energy usage in the home.
A detailed 
A short, subtitled video is available about the closing event of the Hungarian Living Labs in spring 2019, where the colleagues of GreenDependent presented the results of the Living Lab challenges. Moreover, experts were invited to the event to encourage participating households to take further energy saving actions.
On July 17 Hungarian C4S promoter GreenDependent Institute hold a mid-term motivation workshop for the building-level energy groups of the competing buildings. The workshop provided a good opportunity for the evaluation of the mid-term results: during the first 6 month of 2018 buildings have saved 12% energy and 3% water on average (vs. the same period of the previous year) thus the individual campaigns seem to be successful and indeed supporting the broader efforts of the involves LAs in order to achieve a higher level energy efficiency.
An online book titled 'Energy Demand Challenges in Europe - Implications for policy, planning and practice', edited by Frances Fahy, Gary Goggins and Charlotte Jensen (2019) is available 
The fifth season of the E.ON EnergyNeighbourhoods program has just ended, the GreenDependent Institute held the closing award ceremony on the 25th of May. We celebrated the participants of this season, also the 5th anniversary of the program. We gave thanks to our partners from E.ON and the most enthusiastic coordinators who led their team at least for three seasons.
