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Multi-sectoral approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable energy And sociaL acceptance

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Training researchers to tackle resistance to energy transition

Developing a low-carbon economy changes society’s relationship with energy. Despite success in the design and development of low-carbon technologies, necessary infrastructure projects often cause concern within host communities. For instance, despite providing the cheapest form of energy generation, large-scale wind energy projects face increasing challenges from local opposition because of fears around environmental impacts, procedural justice, and the distribution of the costs and benefits. The EU-funded MISTRAL project will train a new generation of researchers to effectively evaluate the complexity of social acceptance issues facing the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure and propose innovative solutions. The focus will be on finding ways to change how we understand and respond to declining social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructure.

Objective

Europe is at the beginning of a major transition to a low carbon economy and is experiencing substantial growth in the expansion of renewable energy generating capacity. However, parallel to this technological investment, many Member States are witnessing increasing levels of local opposition to individual projects, particularly for wind energy, which is now the cheapest form of energy generation. This has a range of consequences including increased deployment costs/delays, increased regulatory demands, reduced market support and highlights a major social challenge for the energy transition. In response to this, MISTRAL 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. It 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. MISTRAL will also provide an innovative training environment where young researchers can develop advanced skills in research and transferable skills, benefit form 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.

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Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018

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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

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THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
Net EU contribution
€ 909 517,68
Address
University road lanyon building
BT7 1NN Belfast
United Kingdom

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Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Belfast
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 0,00

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