CO2PED is a transdisciplinary project fostering collective agency and behavioral change for energy transitions in underprivileged neighborhoods across the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and Estonia. Each partner develops a key tool—collective visioning, bottom-up PED actions, public-community co-evolution & social-technological innovation—combining them into the CO2PED toolkit. Four international CO2LABs test and refine these tools, ensuring locally tailored solutions and transferability across diverse European contexts.
From 17-19 November, the Utrecht University members hosted the consortium for a series of workshops and discussions, sharing research and exploring the theme of collective and inclusive energy transitions.
On the first day of the international CO2LAB in Ghent, we (the Utrecht-based team) organized an experimental workshop on visions for the heat transition. Our objective was to connect research and practice across contexts and experiment with elements to help develop our tool for collective, inclusive visioning processes. That last part represents our role in the consortium: how to create visioning processes for alternative futures of vulnerable neighbourhoods in ways that connect to their communities’ needs?
