TRANSrisk Updates

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

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" .

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 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.