AREAS OF RESEARCH

The energy transition is a vital issue for the future of Europe. To better define the content and actions for an energy transition serving all Europeans, the JACQUES DELORS ENERGY CENTRE (JDEC): provides national and European political and economic decision-makers with insights on energy transition issues formulates political recommendations for actions to be implemented by public authorities. The Jacques Delors Energy Center draws on the work undertaken by the Jacques Delors Institute. Together with the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, Jacques Delors first promoted what is ...

Project summary EnergyPROSPECTS (PROactive Strategies and Policies for Energy Citizenship Transformation) will work with a critical understanding of energy citizenship that is grounded in state-of-the-art Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) insights. Funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme for three years, EnergyPROSPECTS aims to develop a broad understanding of energy citizenship as a policy concept, a sociotechnical imaginary, a knowing-of-governance, i.e. a social construction of desirable/normal civic agency in future energy systems. The project will identify and examine a range of cro...

About REFEREE The REFEREE project provides essential support to EU energy stakeholders at all levels of governance by quantifying the direct and indirect societal benefits of energy interventions. This initiative has made significant strides in establishing energy efficiency as the primary fuel, thus advancing the desired energy transition. Discover the REFEREE Policy Assessment Tool At the core of REFEREE’s success lies our innovative Policy Assessment Tool. Grounded in a scientifically robust macroeconomic model, this tool is designed to revolutionise how policymakers, businesses, and publ...

FULFILL studies lifestyle changes’ contribution and citizens’ involvement in European decarbonation pathways and achieving the Paris Agreement’s climate objectives. Implementing sufficiency is defined as the creation of social, regulatory, and infrastructural conditions for changing individual and collective practices in a way that reduces energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions and simultaneously contributes to societal well-being.

The Innovation Hub project aims to : Support innovative policies and investments that will make the EU climate neutral by 2050. Increase the level of public and private investment in breakthrough clean energy innovations and foster their rapid deployment. In 2021, mobilise green and resilient stimulus funding to accelerate the innovation cycle in Europe to help achieve the new 2030 climate ambition.

The main mission of the ECF’s France programme is to accelerate a just transition toward a zero-emission society by: Supporting the implementation of the climate neutrality strategy: Now that France has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050, we are working to ensure that government bodies and civil society actors are in place to inform the development and monitor the implementation of the appropriate and additional policies and measures needed to reach this goal at the local, regional and national levels. Accelerating the transition toward zero-emission mobility and buildings: T...

The Sun4All project (2021-2024) will test in the EU a support scheme helping vulnerable households to switch to renewable energy while reducing their energy bills. The scheme will be tested by the cities of Almada (PT), Barcelona (ES), and Rome (IT) and by the community of municipalities Cœur de Savoie (FR). At each pilot location, eligible participants will be identified and invited to be part of the project. Shares of a local photovoltaic power plant will be offered to all participants – in other words, the beneficiaries of the Sun4All support scheme will become co-owners of a local photo...

Launched following the working group set up for the 2019 European elections by Christine Verger and Pascal Lamy, this Observatory analyses the political life of the European Parliament through regular publications on the voting dynamics within the parliamentary groups and on the particularities of European democracy. It also follows the work of the Conference on the Future of Europe. Members of the group LAMY Pascal, Chairman of the working group, President Emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute, President of the Paris Peace Forum VERGER Christine, Rapporteur of the working group, Vice-Pre...