Policy Outreach Events

Policy and academia: bridging the gap – Policy Session

28 March 2019By

Policy Session at the EAERE Conference organised by the EAERE Policy Outreach Committee.

The session organized by the EAERE POC intends to discuss how to facilitate and create a more integrated dialogue between academia and policy world. The two contexts have departed from each other over time, becoming increasingly technical and partially separated. To fill the gap between these two realms, there is a need to substantiate quantitatively what policies work and what their relative contribution is. In line with the aim of the EAERE POC (i.e. providing advice and support to EU policy makers and institutions in designing policy interventions), a few questions will be addressed during the session to facilitate and promote the discussion: (i) Which policies instruments have performed better/worst so far? (ii) What are the main results emerging from ex-post evaluation of specific policies? (iii) Where are such evaluations mainly needed?

EAERE 24th Conference website: http://www.eaere-conferences.org/

SPEAKERS’ SLIDES
SIMONE BORGHESI
CHRISTIAN GOLLIER
PHOEBE KOUNDOURI
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2nd Interdisciplinary PhD expert course for young researchers

26 March 2019By

Submission deadline for extended abstract and CV submission: June 1, 2019
Submission deadline for full paper: August 30, 2019
Further information

The EU has set up a roadmap towards a low-carbon economy which involves (i) the development of clean technologies and low carbon energy, (ii) the reduction in resource use, (iii) an increased energy security, and (iv) health benefits. Consequently, there is a strong need for methods that assess the environmental, economic and overall societal effects of the actions taken on industrial and policy levels.
To meet this demand, we organize a PhD expert course on three different, state-of-the-art assessment tools which have a multitude of useful applications in different disciplines. However, interchange between these different disciplines is currently limited. Furthermore, as the actual actions for the Low Carbon Economy are taken at industry and policy level, integration of the different work fields is required.
Format
A three-day event with method lectures, keynote speakers bridging methods to work field applications, and paper presentation sessions with discussants from the pool of participants and senior researchers.
Target Audience
PhD students or first-year postdocs working on TEA, LCA, or integrated analyses with regard to any topic of the low-carbon economy are invited to participate to the course by submitting an extended abstract.
Venue
University of Antwerp, City Campus
Prinsstraat, 13 | 2000 Antwerp
Participation is free of charge and includes lunches, a welcome reception, and a social dinner!
By following the course and presenting your work, you get awarded with 1 ECTS-credit point. All participants will also receive a certificate of attendance.

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