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Public outreach on energy poverty in Europe

EVALUATE researcher Harriet Thomson established the EU Fuel Poverty Network in 2011, and since then it has grown to be one of the leading online portals for fuel poverty. Read more about the latest developments here.

Posted byHarriet Thomson31 May, 201631 May, 2016Posted inCURE member activities, Public engagement

EVALUATE project issues new policy brief

A new policy brief is now available on the website of the EVALUATE project. The brief reports on some of the latest project results, focusing in particular on the principal findings from the large-scale household survey on energy vulnerability and fuel poverty in four Central and Eastern European cities, undertaken during the winter and spring ofContinue reading “EVALUATE project issues new policy brief”

Posted bycuremanchester2 March, 20162 March, 2016Posted inEVALUATE activities, Public engagement

What is the state of the Earth’s environment?

Our research associate Nora Mzavanadze is part of the authors’ team for the 6th Global Enviroment Oulook (GEO-6) report – a global state of the environment report led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She is back from the authors’ meeting at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and in this blog post she describes the raison d’être of such a report, explains the GEO process, summarizes the conclusions of the GEO-5 report and discusses the the novelties of the GEO-6 report.

Posted bynoramzavanadze9 November, 201510 November, 2015Posted inCURE member activities, Public engagementTags:environment, environmental assessment, environmental governance, environmental performance, GEO, GEO-6, global environment outlook, global environmental assessment, global environmental problems, science-policy interface, state of the environment, sustainability, sustainability transition, UNEP, united nations, united nations environment programmeLeave a comment on What is the state of the Earth’s environment?

Evening seminar on ‘Approaching Resilience’

CURE is hosting an evening seminar with Peter Rogers from Macquarie University and Sören Becker from the Lebniz Institute for Regional Planning.

Posted bystefanbuzar21 October, 201511 January, 2016Posted inCURE member activities, Public engagementLeave a comment on Evening seminar on ‘Approaching Resilience’

Energy poverty in Macedonia – workshop report

We conclude our series of reports on the EVALUATE stakeholder workshops with an article on the most recent workshop in Skopje.

Posted bycuremanchester21 September, 201521 September, 2015Posted inEVALUATE activities, Public engagementTags:Energy poverty, macedoniaLeave a comment on Energy poverty in Macedonia – workshop report

Engaging Polish audiences with EVALUATE research in Gdansk

We continue our reports from recent stakeholder workshops held in the EVALUATE case study countries.

Posted bycuremanchester10 September, 201511 January, 2016Posted inActivity reports, EVALUATE activities, Public engagementTags:Energy poverty, energy vulnerability, Gdansk, polandLeave a comment on Engaging Polish audiences with EVALUATE research in Gdansk

EVALUATE workshop with local stakeholders in Budapest – A summary

We continue our series of EVALUATE workshop reports with an article by Sergio Tirado Herrero describing a recent stakeholder event in Budapest.

Posted bystiradoherrero29 August, 201529 August, 2015Posted inEVALUATE activities, Public engagementTags:Budapest, case study, districts, DIY, Energy poverty, energy vulnerability, Hungary, local stakeholders, surveyLeave a comment on EVALUATE workshop with local stakeholders in Budapest – A summary

Notes from the EVALUATE workshop with stakeholders from the Czech energy sector

Saska Petrova reports on a recent EVALUATE project event held in Prague.

Posted bysaskapetrova10 August, 201514 August, 2015Posted inEVALUATE activities, Event reports, Public engagementTags:Czech Republic, energy vulnerability, EVALUATE, PragueLeave a comment on Notes from the EVALUATE workshop with stakeholders from the Czech energy sector

‘We have seen the future and it looks edgy’ – notes on Foresighting a Future for Cities

Joe Ravetz, the Co-director of CURE, reports on the CURE annual forum that was co-organised with cities@manchester. The event took place in Manchester on the 24th of June 2015.

Posted bysaskapetrova14 July, 2015Posted inCURE member activities, Event reports, Public engagement, Topics for discussionTags:AGMA, cities@manchester, communities, CURE, future cities, Great Manchester, localism, MBSLeave a comment on ‘We have seen the future and it looks edgy’ – notes on Foresighting a Future for Cities

Three cities in four days – announcing the EVALUATE stakeholder workshop ‘roadshow’

Following the completion of our neighbourhood surveys in April, the EVALUATE project team is organizing stakeholder workshops in three of our case study cities – Prague, Budapest and Gdansk. Read more about next week’s events here.

Posted bystefanbuzar12 June, 201515 June, 2015Posted inEVALUATE activities, Public engagementLeave a comment on Three cities in four days – announcing the EVALUATE stakeholder workshop ‘roadshow’

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