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Mar. 27Welcome address by Douglas Halliday
I am delighted to have received the important appointment of new Chair of the EUA Energy & Environment Platform (EUA-EPUE). We are actively working to take the platform to a new level, building on the many successes of the UNI-SET project, notably with the launch of EUA’s first ever event on energy and the environment.
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Feb. 21
Douglas Halliday, new Chair of EUA Energy & Environment PlatformThe EUA Energy & Environment Platform (EUA-EPUE) welcomes a new Chair. The EUA Council has appointed Dr Douglas Halliday, Co-Director of the Durham University Energy Institute (DEI) and Director of its Multidisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy.
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Dec. 17Global climate negotiations at COP24: we need to act now
The 24th United Nations climate change conference (COP24) took place from 3 to 14 December in Katowice, Poland. It focused on the implementation of the Paris Agreement (2016) and on advancing the Talanoa dialogue, initiated by the Fijian presidency of COP23 in 2017. The urgent need to act at a global level was also powerfully stressed in the recent special report (October 2018) on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Nov. 29Europe needs an ambitious new strategy to keep global warming below 2˚C
On 28 November, the European Commission adopted a strategic long-term vision for a climate neutral Europe “A Clean Planet for all”. EUA-EPUE responded to the European Commission Public Consultation on Future climate and energy policy – a Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions in October 2018.
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Nov. 28Training in Smart Grids and Smart Cities at the IEEE International Forum
On 28 November 2018, EUA moderated a session on Education and Training in Smart Grids and Smart Cities at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) International Forum on Smart Grids for Smart Cities.
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Nov. 23
Europe's universities and the SET Plan – Lessons from the UNI-SET projectThe quarterly SETIS Magazine “Jobs and skills in the energy transition” (December 2018) released an article on lessons learnt from the FP7 UNI-SET project. The article was authored by Lidia Borrell-Damian, EUA`s Director for Research and Innovation.
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Nov. 202018 SET-Plan Conference: Citizens for Energy Transition
The 2018 SET-Plan conference took place in Vienna from 19 to 21 November 2018. It addressed among other topics the 2030 and 2050 European energy and climate strategies, the financing instruments to support Research & Innovation (R&I), the EU's position in the world, and the importance of engaging citizens, cities and regions.
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Oct. 28
Multidisciplinary Partnerships for Access to EnergyBy Lidia Borrell-Damián, Research & Innovation Unit, European University Association.
This article is one of the Forewords from the SHAPE ENERGY open access book recently published by Palgrave Macmillan ‘Advancing Energy Policy: lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities’.
Read moreJul. 06
EUA-EPUE moderates session at SET-Plan workshopDuring the stakeholder collaboration workshop on “SET-Plan Key Action 6: Energy Efficiency in Industry”, held in Brussels on 27-28 June 2018, EUA-EPUE hosted a session on Knowledge exchange, training and capacity building.
Read moreJul. 06EUA Energy and Environment Platform: an interactive talk at EUSEW 2018The EUA Energy & Environment Platform participated in an Energy Talk on "Interdisciplinary Education, Training and Research at European Universities” during the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) on 7 June 2018 in Brussels.
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