EDITS IV é a quarta fase de um projeto conjunto entre o DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (D'C) e o Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) com o objetivo de colaborar na análise empírica e modelizadora de novas tendências disruptivas de inovação tecnológica e social para reduzir a procura de energia.

EDITS II is a joint project between DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (D'C) and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) with the aim at collaborating on the empirical and modeling analysis of new disruptive trends of technological and social innovation for reducing energy demand.

The InCITIES project aims to achieve the transformations of HEIs and their surrounding ecosystem centred around on cities’ needs of inclusion, sustainability and resilience. Its specific focus on widening countries (Portugal and Slovakia) will allow to overcome structural, sociocultural, economic, political and institutional barriers to transformation fostering. Addressing the European-global challenges of cities, InCITIES has 4 objectives: 1) Map institutional transformation strategies towards research-based sustainable universities including open science and career opportunities. 2) Build a long-term network of participating HEIs and surrounding ecosystems based on integrated knowledge HUBs. 3) Increase scientific, technological and staff capacity by sharing the best pedagogical, research, management and administrative practices in the consortium, and piloting leverages to widening HEIs. 4) Promote digitally driven universities by creating an open and innovative education and training platform in synergy with the project research and innovation agenda on inclusive, sustainable and resilient cities. The 5 methods jointly developed will set the foundation for the consortium role model: 1) Method for a common research map, 2) Capacity building actions based on the Learning by Developing pedagogical model, 3) Capacity building in talent scout and career opportunity strategy (attractiveness of research careers, including open science incentives), 4) Capacity building on equality, diversity and inclusion, 5) Methods to address enablers and barriers to integration of the InCITIES Alliance. From knowledge co-creation to joint production between European HEIs, surrounding ecosystems and citizens’ involvement, integrated actions play a key-role in achieving the consortium objectives. Capacity building actions implemented are a step towards the submission to the European Universities Initiative; it will strengthen the ERA, the EEA, and Europe’s approach to coope...

EDITS II is a joint project between DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (D'C) and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) with the aim at collaborating on the empirical and modeling analysis of new disruptive trends of technological and social innovation for reducing energy demand.

EDITS is a joint project between DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (D'C) and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) with the aim at collaborating on the empirical and modeling analysis of new disruptive trends of technological and social innovation for reducing energy demand.

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The project investigates the types of decarbonisation strategies that comply with the Paris Agreement, whose implementation requires the transformation of several sectors in addition to energy, such as mobility, construction, food and industry. This sectoral transformation raises challenges for the development of countries and regions, which have become particularly pressing as states will have to accelerate the low-carbon transition with more fragile finances and the need for economic recovery after the pandemic crisis. The research combines theories of socio-technical transitions and economic geography to identify low-carbon transition pathways with the greatest transformative potential and to investigate how countries and regions are preparing for such transformation. The focus of this research is on the type of transition strategies that are most beneficial to the economy, that is, that have the capacity to generate changes in other sectors. The project studies the possible directions of the transition and its transformative capacity, assesses the extent to which the system is preparing for this mode of transition and identifies the areas that are leading or delaying change. To this end, it will develop a typology of transformational decarbonization strategies based on a systematic analysis of the literature. The project will also search for patterns of transformation towards sustainable production and consumption already emerging at business level, and match them with the theory-derived decarbonization strategies. The results will contribute to the discussion on the processes and modes of sustainable transitions associated with the economic characteristics of the different regions. The project will also contribute to the discussion on the influence of the context as a facilitator of or constraint on some types of decarbonization strategies, as well as will identify the strategic intervention levers under which policies can intervene in order to amplify the effe...

The project investigates the conditions in which the process of transition to a sustainable energy system can drive the transformation of existing (often declining) industries, a still under-researched question despite its economic and political relevance. The empirical setting is the process of construction of a new system around ocean energy technologies and its contribution to the development of the sea economy in Portugal. The project combines theoretical and empirical contributions from socio-technical transitions and economic geography to "contextualise" the development of the new system and investigate the nature and effects of its interactions with the context where it evolves. It focuses on the transformative potential of the co-evolution of the emerging system with "contiguous sectors" - i.e. existing sectors not initially involved with the technology that offer complementary competences - as processes of recombination of new and existing knowledge into new configurations may be enacted along such co-evolution, ultimately leading to the transformation of these sectors. To understand these processes requires moving beyond the usual focus on the new system and also addressing the process from the standpoint of context actors. This involves examining how system actors mobilize context actors and how the latter perceive and respond to it; and investigating the processes that take place along their interaction, the effects at both levels and the conditions that influence them. These processes are also contextualised in space to investigate the implications of their multi-scalar nature and its effects on regional development. The empirical analysis addresses the past trajectory and current situation in Portugal of two technologies - wave energy and offshore wind - and is complemented with a comparative analysis with Norway. It combines an assessment of the dynamics of interactions at system level, with an in-depth analysis of actors' behaviour, and includes thre...

The project MISTRAL, funded by European Union within the Horizon2020 program, involves 15 linked PhD studentships based at 7 European universities with a variety of industrial placements, summer schools and shared training. The project aims to nurture a new generation of researchers who can effectively evaluate the complexity of social acceptance issues facing the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure and propose innovative solutions in a variety of research, government and business contexts. MISTRAL will do this by fostering a vibrant inter-disciplinary environment to change the way we understand and respond to declining social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructure and engage a wider range of inter-sectoral stakeholders to develop innovative solutions. It will also provide an innovative training environment where young researchers can develop advanced skills in research and transferable skills, benefit from a range of diverse secondment experiences and debate current issues with some of the world leading researchers in the field, in order to develop advanced capacities for progressing Europe’s energy transition.