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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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