
MOBGIs - Mobilizing Grassroots
Mobilizing grassroots capacities for sustainable energy transitions: path improvement or path change?
The project is about grass roots initiatives and innovations in the domain of renewable energy. It takes stock of all the renewable energy grassroots initiatives that exist in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, focusing on innovations and networking. This study, supplemented with a media framing analysis, produced dedicated case studies capturing the innovative capacities of these dispersed, yet creative, networks to provide policy advice to decision-makers.
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MOBGIs created an extensive database of all renewable energy grass roots initiatives (GIs)in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands
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A media analysis revealed that GIs are related to different aspects than just the technical framing of renewable energy that we see in media more generally.GIs are more related to social aspects, focusing on the importance for the community in which they are located
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In Sweden, GIs are covered far less in media compared to Denmark and the Netherlands.The focus on GIs’ importance for local development is particularly emphasised in the Netherlands. Whereas the focus in Denmark is given to aspects of innovation and technology

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The project is about grass roots initiatives and innovations in the domain of renewable energy. It takes stock of all the renewable energy grassroots initiatives that exist in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, focusing on innovations and networking. This study, supplemented with a media framing analysis, produced dedicated case studies capturing the innovative capacities of these dispersed, yet creative, networks to provide policy advice to decision-makers.
The project contributes to broader awareness of energy transition and of the possibility of a decentralised, citizens’ based movement in the energy transition. It delivers a comparison
of the role of cooperatives in the energy transition in three countries (Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands) and shows how energy cooperatives are framed and position
themselves, how they are facilitated by governments or markets in different ways. This contributes to cross-country learning to strengthen the role of civil society in the energy
transition, both for civil society actors with regard to positioning themselves and for local governments to facilitate community initiatives.
Project leader
Associate Professor in Political Sciences of the Environment at Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Project consortium
Radboud University Nijmegen
Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research
Lund University
Aalborg University
Leading Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Mark Wiering, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
This research is a collaboration between Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), Aalborg University (Denmark) and Linköping University (Sweden). The consortium provides a combination of state-of-the-art research on societal initiatives in renewable energy in all three countries, expertise in (environmental) policy-, framing and discourse analysis, and expertise in advanced network-methodologies. This also includes digital tracing methods, ethnographic participatory approaches, and policy analysis. The consortium’s strength lies in its complementarity, both within partners’ contributions and between partners
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Call 2013
Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects
This JPI Climate Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects provided support for top-quality research projects on topics that are of high societal relevance in Europe and globally, recognising that such challenges require joint efforts through multinational approaches. JPI Climate is seeking proposals from consortia consisting of partners from the participating European countries as well as others. Consortia brought together different scientific disciplines to address the issues within the scope of the described call topics. The projects displayed clear links to decision-makers and users of climate knowledge as well as potential change agents in society.
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