Let’s face it: even though European Horizon2020 projects are obliged to consider gender, most projects are still struggling with how to meaningfully take on this challenge. The most common approach is counting gender balance in simple numbers – like comparing…
Authors: Benedetta Buccolini, Julia Wittmayer, Maria Fraaije SONNET aims to foster and better understand social innovations in energy and how they contribute (or not) to making our energy sources, use, and production cleaner. Living up to this aim requires us…
~English text follows~ Das SONNET City Lab Basel veranstaltete Anfang Februar seine Online-Eröffnung, bei der sich über 90 Nutzer*innen mit Forscher*innen und den Entwicklern der Smartphone-App „enerjoy“ trafen. Die Zürcher Fachhochschule ZHAW und der Basler Energie-, Wasser- und Telekomversorger IWB…
by Sabrina Hoffman, City of Mannheim More than 50 multipliers gathered online to discuss ideas related to the SONNET City Lab in Mannheim. The SONNET project’s City Lab in Mannheim was launched at a virtual meeting hosted by the City…
article by: Devon Wemyss and Manuel Grieder, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences The smart phone app “enerjoy” – which has been under development by the Swiss electricity utility IWB in Basel for several years – is the fitness tracker…
This blog post has been written by the hosts of the Bristol City Lab kick-off event from Bristol City Council, Bristol Energy Network and others. Thank you for your contribution! How can we be socially innovative as communities and respond…
‘Prosumerism’ – where an energy user both produces and consumes energy from renewable sources – is an example of social innovation that is expected to play an increasingly important role in the energy transition. The SONNET sister project PROSEU explores…
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 837498.