Project description
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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BT7 1NN Belfast
United Kingdom
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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9000 St Gallen
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T12 YN60 Cork
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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1649 026 Lisboa
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66115 Saarbruecken
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9220 Aalborg
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LE3 0JS Leicester
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75008 Paris
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18 Dublin
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2 Dublin
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4950 020 Anhoes E Luzio
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5400 Baden
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6400 Sonderborg
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12435 Berlin
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4466-901 S.Mamede De Infesta
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D18 Y2T8 Dublin
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W19 DC7P Naas
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Newtownmountkennedy Wicklow
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D01 Dublin
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1210 BRUXELLES
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