Descrizione del progetto
Una nuova generazione di cittadini a emissioni prossime allo zero
Affinché l’Europa raggiunga gli ambiziosi traguardi stabiliti nel Green Deal relativi alle emissioni di gas a effetto serra, occorre che i cittadini svolgano un ruolo molto più attivo nella trasformazione del settore dell’energia. Pertanto, il progetto AURORA, finanziato dall’UE, permetterà a diverse migliaia di cittadini in cinque località in Danimarca, Inghilterra, Portogallo, Slovenia e Spagna di prendere decisioni più informate in materia di energia. I cittadini monitoreranno il proprio comportamento energetico individuale tramite un’applicazione mobile, che a sua volta fornirà loro alcune raccomandazioni automatizzate. Mediante il crowdfunding delle comunità energetiche locali e la generazione di energia fotovoltaica da circa 1 megawatt, questi cittadini diventeranno «prosumatori» attivi, trasformando profondamente il sistema energetico e rendendone democratica la governance. Il progetto si rivolgerà in particolare ai gruppi emarginati e alle giovani generazioni.
Obiettivo
AURORA aims at an innovative long-term citizen engagement with energy sustainable behaviours empowering civil society to adopt a leading role in the energy cycle and to be real actors of a sustainable change via the promotion of citizen science practices. AURORA Energy Awareness rationale will be implemented as a demonstrator in 5 European countries. AURORA rationale is based on the upgrade of social communities -4 university communities and 1 rural deprived area- to new civic consortia -established as local energy communities- to act as Citizen Science hubs. There, on the one hand, citizens will crowdfund a local solar photovoltaic facility in an inclusive system enabling low-cost shares from 20EUR, and on the other hand, participants will monitor their individual energy mix demand behaviours, which together with their energy production in the facility, will generate accurate know-how on the carbon footprint related to their energy mix behaviour, which will be managed through the AURORA app. AURORA proposes a novel labelling system to help citizens to better understand their energy-related impacts. Later on, interventions to modify their energy behaviour towards a more climate-neutral impact while fostering energy-savings will imply the involvement of citizens in individual and collective actions, covering from civic innovation workshops to home-made low-cost sensors or community infrastructures fabrication, to environmental observation for creating civic local roadmaps. The final objective is to generate the first generations of Near Zero-Emission Citizens acting as ambassadors for sustainable energy behaviours. As a consequence of the activities performed by citizens, data collected AURORA will also be able to improve energy transition scenarios including citizens' behaviours and learning periods and generate reliable data on the impact of climate on energy infrastructures.
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H2020-LC-GD-2020-3
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinatore
28040 Madrid
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