Objective
HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) involves an interdisciplinary team with many experienced researchers and 24 high profile research institutions.
HoNESt’s goal is to conduct a three-year interdisciplinary analysis of the experience of nuclear developments and its relationship to contemporary society with the aim of improving the understanding of the dynamics over the last 60 years. HoNESt’s results will assist the current debate on future energy sources and the transition to affordable, secure, and clean energy production.
Civil society's interaction with nuclear developments changes over time, and it is locally, nationally and transnationally specific. HoNESt will embrace the complexity of political, technological and economic challenges; safety; risk perception and communication, public engagement, media framing, social movements, etc. Research on these interactions has thus far been mostly fragmented.
We will develop a pioneering integrated interdisciplinary approach, which is conceptually informed by Large Technological Systems (LTS) and Integrated Socio-technical System (IST), based on a close and innovative collaboration of historians and social scientists in this field.
HoNESt will first collect extensive historical data from over 20 countries. These data will be jointly analyzed by historians and social scientists, through the lens of an innovative integrated approach, in order to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying decision making and associated citizen engagement with nuclear power.
Through an innovative application of backcasting techniques, HoNESt will bring novel content to the debate on nuclear sustainable engagement futures. Looking backwards to the present, HoNESt will strategize and plan how these suitable engagement futures could be achieved.
HoNESt will engage key stakeholders from industry, policy makers and civil society in a structured dialogue to insert the results into the public debate on nuclear energy.
Fields of science
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistory
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesnuclear engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsnuclear energy
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
Programme(s)
- H2020-Euratom - Euratom Main Programme
- H2020-Euratom-1.8. - Ensure availability and use of research infrastructures of pan_european relevance
- H2020-Euratom-1.2. - Contribute to the development of solutions for the management of ultimate nuclear waste
- H2020-Euratom-1.4. - Foster radiation protection
- H2020-Euratom-1.3. - Support the development and sustainability of nuclear competences at Union level
- H2020-Euratom-1.1. - Support safe operation of nuclear systems
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
08002 Barcelona
Spain
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Participants (24)
31006 Pamplona
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53850 Lappeenranta
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28040 Madrid
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PR1 2HE Preston
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70176 Stuttgart
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1165 Kobenhavn
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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2000 Antwerpen
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115 93 Stockholm
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SW7 2DD London
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S10 2TN Sheffield
75006 Paris
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100 44 Stockholm
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10561 Athina
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01127 Vilnius
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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80538 Munchen
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07743 Jena
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4000 Plovdiv
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620990 Ekaterinburg
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4150 356 Porto
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
04901 8847 Waterville
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YO10 5DD York North Yorkshire
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