Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 2ISECAP (Institutionalized Integrated Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-09-01 al 2023-02-28
Planning for energy transition is an interdisciplinary issue that requires the integration of the energy theme into the everyday work of public administration. Doing so not only begs an integrated approach, but also a participatory and multilevel governing process. Tensions between interests and stakeholders often rise without an adequate resolution strategy. These tensions may hinder the transition once plans and policies become concrete in action plans, projects, and implementation. Such tensions manifest themselves as social conflicts and in failures to implement plans and policies.
Effective and efficient planning for the energy transition, thus, can greatly benefit from allowing an open and creative process of confronting formal decision-making with the places, stakeholders and communities they aim to affect or activate. communities.
The creation of an institutional environment (i.e. a governance structure) that can combine the democratic legitimacy and legal power of formal plans and policies with the creativity, energy and social capacity of (bottom-up) initiatives, entrepreneurship and community involvement will definitely add great value to the energy transition and ensure its success.
In such context, the project aims at:
- Introducing a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Energy Climate Action Plan (SECAP) Planning that will support Participatory and Integrated sustainable energy and climate actions planning
- Studying, enhancing the understanding and identifying critical success and failure factors regarding the effective mobilization of citizens and stakeholders
- Designing the Governance Structure required to establish the holistic (participatory and integrated) approach
- Providinge proof on the proposed Integrated SECAP planning approach by applying it to the following six European Municipalities: Karditsa (GR), Thun (SW), Tartu (ES), Ljutomer (SL), Leon (ES), and Padova (IT).
Effective and efficient planning for the energy transition, thus, can greatly benefit from allowing an open and creative process of confronting formal decision-making with the places, stakeholders and communities they aim to affect or activate. communities.
The creation of an institutional environment (i.e. a governance structure) that can combine the democratic legitimacy and legal power of formal plans and policies with the creativity, energy and social capacity of (bottom-up) initiatives, entrepreneurship and community involvement will definitely add great value to the energy transition and ensure its success.
In such context, the project aims at:
- Introducing a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Energy Climate Action Plan (SECAP) Planning that will support Participatory and Integrated sustainable energy and climate actions planning
- Studying, enhancing the understanding and identifying critical success and failure factors regarding the effective mobilization of citizens and stakeholders
- Designing the Governance Structure required to establish the holistic (participatory and integrated) approach
- Providinge proof on the proposed Integrated SECAP planning approach by applying it to the following six European Municipalities: Karditsa (GR), Thun (SW), Tartu (ES), Ljutomer (SL), Leon (ES), and Padova (IT).
2ISECAP project, within its first half period, has developed all the analysis required in order to: (a) study the capacity of formal plans and policies to activate and work with local energy initiatives and coalitions for implementing proposed actions in the various municipalities considered, (b) perform an international comparative study of best practices and ongoing work on participatory and integrated sustainable energy planning on a local level, (c) analyze local and regional community initiatives and larger societal coalitions focused on energy transition and climate actions, in order to identify how they came to be, function and perform, their existing relations with formal governments, formal plans and policies, and how these relations affect the barriers and accommodation factors for their scale-up, (d) examine the development of institutional capacity (i.e. organizational, knowledge, instruments, leadership skills) within local/regional government and its relationship with social capacity (i.e. networks and assets that facilitate citizen awareness, private sector involvement and cooperation for mutual benefit), (e) identify institutional capacity measures, including governance structures and tools to be considered and provided by local/regional governments to support energy and climate bottom-up initiatives and coalitions and (f) study the suitability of existing urban management approaches and spatial planning tools for introducing/facilitating sustainability and energy transition, in different area-based characteristics and in adapted ways to specific local needs, socio-economic conditions and environmental constraints.
Based on this analysis the project is currently working on the development of the Holistic Approach to SECAP Planning that roots SECAPs in the specificity of local and regional spatial and socio-economic conditions, enhancing its links with spatial planning in every local society. This approach is based on a multi-level, interdisciplinary co-creation process, supported on a local level as a new planning framework to foster integrated local action.
Based on this analysis the project is currently working on the development of the Holistic Approach to SECAP Planning that roots SECAPs in the specificity of local and regional spatial and socio-economic conditions, enhancing its links with spatial planning in every local society. This approach is based on a multi-level, interdisciplinary co-creation process, supported on a local level as a new planning framework to foster integrated local action.
Dissemination and awareness activities at different territorial levels play an important role to maximize 2ISECAP project impacts. Such activities are currently proceeding thanks to Transnational Living Lab held in Turin on September 2023 and the Living Labs instituted within the six selected European Municipalities (Karditsa (GR), Thun (SW), Tartu (ES), Ljutomer (SL), Leon (ES), and Padova (IT)).
The University of Brescia (UNIBS) will continue in supporting the activities proposed by Padova LL and will contribute to dissemination and awareness raising through a pool of activities at international and national levels.
At the international level:
Through participating in the COST Action SHiFT (Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience) (Membership in WG1, WG 2, WG 3, WG 4). As the COST Action SHiFT focuses on creating a transdisciplinary Hub addressing societal transformations driven by climate change, UNIBS aims at expanding network and cooperation and exchanging knowledge on innovative ways to spur co-design and co-creation with a wider fan of actors (e.g. institutions, business, civil society, public officers, energy and spatial planners) presenting the 2ISECAP project methodology.
Through holding a lecture within the Interreg ReS_EAU. As the Interreg ReS_EAU aims at building public sector and institutional actors' capacity to develop an effective participatory design of new urban green spaces in response to climate change and flood risk, UNIBS intends to transfer 2ISECAP LL methodology, focusing on the necessity to apply interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches to address mitigation and adaptation actions.
At the national level:
Through participating in the National Project URCA! (Urban Resilience to Climate change: to Activate participatory mapping and decision support tool for enhancing the sustainable urban drainage), which aims at answering the question: “how to allow the community to actively participate in decision-making processes regarding the choice of possible urban transformations?”. As endpoint of the Regional Strategies of Sustainable Development, the SECAP may be a strengthening factor of the Strategies and the 2ISECAP methodology may support local institutional capacity in building local strategies focused on interdisciplinary and intersectoral adaptation and mitigation actions which integrate energy and climate change issues. UNIBS aims at sharing knowledge on participatory approaches and the 2ISECAP methodology with projects focusing on other aspects of urban mitigation and adaptation to spur coordination and consistency between planning sectors and levels.
UNIBS aims at disseminating at the annual SIU (Società Italiana Urbanisti) Conference the 2ISECAP results from questionnaires on Italian energy initiatives (Task 2.1 and 2.2) to address new awareness of territorial and urban planning issues.
UNIBS would like to organize an event to spread out 2ISECAP results on integrated planning initiatives.
Links to projects:
Cost Action SHiFT: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21166/
Interreg ReS_EAU: https://interreg-maritime.eu/web/reseau
SIU Conference: https://www.societaurbanisti.it/conferences/transizioni-giustizia-spaziale-e-progetto-di-territorio/
The University of Brescia (UNIBS) will continue in supporting the activities proposed by Padova LL and will contribute to dissemination and awareness raising through a pool of activities at international and national levels.
At the international level:
Through participating in the COST Action SHiFT (Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience) (Membership in WG1, WG 2, WG 3, WG 4). As the COST Action SHiFT focuses on creating a transdisciplinary Hub addressing societal transformations driven by climate change, UNIBS aims at expanding network and cooperation and exchanging knowledge on innovative ways to spur co-design and co-creation with a wider fan of actors (e.g. institutions, business, civil society, public officers, energy and spatial planners) presenting the 2ISECAP project methodology.
Through holding a lecture within the Interreg ReS_EAU. As the Interreg ReS_EAU aims at building public sector and institutional actors' capacity to develop an effective participatory design of new urban green spaces in response to climate change and flood risk, UNIBS intends to transfer 2ISECAP LL methodology, focusing on the necessity to apply interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches to address mitigation and adaptation actions.
At the national level:
Through participating in the National Project URCA! (Urban Resilience to Climate change: to Activate participatory mapping and decision support tool for enhancing the sustainable urban drainage), which aims at answering the question: “how to allow the community to actively participate in decision-making processes regarding the choice of possible urban transformations?”. As endpoint of the Regional Strategies of Sustainable Development, the SECAP may be a strengthening factor of the Strategies and the 2ISECAP methodology may support local institutional capacity in building local strategies focused on interdisciplinary and intersectoral adaptation and mitigation actions which integrate energy and climate change issues. UNIBS aims at sharing knowledge on participatory approaches and the 2ISECAP methodology with projects focusing on other aspects of urban mitigation and adaptation to spur coordination and consistency between planning sectors and levels.
UNIBS aims at disseminating at the annual SIU (Società Italiana Urbanisti) Conference the 2ISECAP results from questionnaires on Italian energy initiatives (Task 2.1 and 2.2) to address new awareness of territorial and urban planning issues.
UNIBS would like to organize an event to spread out 2ISECAP results on integrated planning initiatives.
Links to projects:
Cost Action SHiFT: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21166/
Interreg ReS_EAU: https://interreg-maritime.eu/web/reseau
SIU Conference: https://www.societaurbanisti.it/conferences/transizioni-giustizia-spaziale-e-progetto-di-territorio/