Public Symposium SCEPA

In the Netherlands, about 600,000 households were living in energy poverty in 2023; across Europe, between 50 and 125 million people in 2024. Municipalities and local public organizations across North-West Europe have developed local approaches to combat or reduce energy poverty. In the Interreg-NWE project Scaling Up the Energy Poverty Approach (SCEPA; 2023-2027). <link project: https://scepa.nweurope.eu/> the HAN is working internationally with governments or government organizations to collect, share knowledge about and scale up good practices against energy poverty.

On April 15, the School of Social Studies at HAN organizes a symposium on energy poverty in relation to the SCEPA project entitled “Involving residents in addressing energy poverty”. The focus will be on the perspective of residents and involving hard-to-reach groups. In a number of plenary contributions we will discuss the importance of social justice in the energy transition and the necessity of involving citizens (with experiential knowledge). In several workshops you will then have the opportunity to learn about good practices and findings from the project and ways to engage hard-to-reach groups in energy poverty approaches.

Would you like to know more about the meeting or the research? Then please contact us at: communicatie.amm@han.nl.