Dissemination

TRANSrisk partners IBS, JIN, UniGraz and UPRC participated in POLIMP Final Conference, held on 21 April 2016 in Brussels. They had the opportunity to exchange knowledge and opinions on climate policy actions.

TRANSrisk partner BC3 has developed an interesting paper on the employment impacts from the transformation of the EU energy sector: 

Markandya A., Arto I., González-Eguino M., & Román M. V. (2016). “Towards a green energy economy? Tracking the employment effects of low-carbon technologies in the European Union”. Applied Energy, 179, 1342–1350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.02.122

TRANSrisk NTUA partners developed a book chapter on robust climate policies.

Nikas A., Doukas H. (2016). “Developing robust climate policies - a Fuzzy Cognitive Map approach”, International series in Operation Research & Management Science, Robustness Analysis in Decision Aiding, Optimization and Analytics.

The chapter can be found here.

UPRC (TRANSrisk partner) participated in the 4^th Student Conference of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS): Opportunities and Challenges within the economic crisis on the 17-18 December 2015 in Athens, Greece and promoted TRANSrisk activities and expected results through the presentation entitled "A Python-implemented model to simulate the residential demand of electricity" .

NTUA (TRANSrisk partner) participated in the 4^th Student Conference of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS): Opportunities and Challenges within the economic crisis on the 17-18 December 2015 in Athens, Greece and promoted TRANSrisk activities and expected results through the presentation entitled "Comparison of alternative pathways for the transition of EU countries to low carbon economies using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps" .

TRANSrisk partner NTUA participated in the 4^th DIA-CORE Regional Workshop, held on 11 March 2016 in Vienna, Austria. 

DIA-CORE is an IEE initiative that aims to ensure a continuous assessment of the existing policy mechanisms and to establish an active stakeholder dialogue on future policy needs for renewable electricity (RES-E), heating & cooling (RES-H), and transport (RES-T).

TRANSrisk participated in Towards2030 roundtable discussion “Global energy trends and linkages to climate policy & implications for renewable energy deployment in the EU to 2030” which was held on 10 March 2016 in Hague, Netherlands.

The event was co-organised by TRANSrisk partner ECN.

TRANSrisk partners JIN, UniGraz and UPRC participated in CARISMA* Annual Meeting, 17 February 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic and presented TRANSrisk methods for the evaluation of mitigation strategies, Case study workflow for integrating quantitative and qualitative tools, as well as the stakeholder engagement process. 

Dowload here the European Office of Cyprus "European News" - Issue January 2016 and read TRANSrisk article in page 3.

TRANSrisk “Stakeholder Engagement & Qualitative Methods” Training Workshop took place on the 9^th and 10^th of March 2016 in National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece.