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COMETS (Collective Action Models for the Energy Transition and Social Innovation) is filling the knowledge gaps around citizen engagement in the energy transition to renewable sources by investigating and quantifying the aggregate contribution of Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector at both national and European levels.
COMETS overall objective is to investigate Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) as the main driver of Social Innovation in the energy sector.
The role of citizen-driven CAIs (e.g. energy communities, cooperatives, purchasing groups) and their contribution to the energy transition has neither been quantified at an aggregate level, nor has their contribution potential been estimated or understood in sufficient depth. COMETS aims to fill these knowledge gaps by quantifying the European-wide aggregate contribution of CAIs to the energy transition at national and European levels by investigating their evolution and scaling up at an in-depth level in six selected countries.
Two specific objectives derive from the overall objective:
- To build robust knowledge on social innovative processes in the energy transition as implemented by CAIs. COMETS will generate and test new knowledge about technical, institutional, economic, social and cultural factors that may facilitate or hinder sustained activities of CAIs. The project will provide new tools for the assessment of CAIs performance and will provide aggregate estimates of their current and potential contribution to the energy transition.
- To provide tools and recommendations for improving the start-up, steering, and up-scaling of CAI activities. COMETS will co-design the tools with practitioners, enabling changes in the current situation and generating blueprints for future initiatives.
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| Coordinators | UNITO - Università di Torino, Italy |
| Coordinated in | Europe |
| Participants | DTU - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark ECOLISE HVL - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences - Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Norway JRC - Joint Research Centre - European Commission RUG Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands ECN The European Crowdfunding Network, Belgium TECNALIA - - Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain TREA -Tartu Regiooni Energiaagentuur, Estonia VITO - Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek, Belgium UB - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy UJ Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland |
| Funded under | Horizon 2020 |
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| Originally Published | Last Updated | 11 May 2021 | 23 Jun 2021 |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Participatory and Deliberative Democracy (CC-DEMOS) |
