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...

REFEREE is a European-funded Horizon 2020 project that started in October 2020 and will run until April 2024. In order to deliver the European Green Deal, which sets out the roadmap for making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, we need to accelerate our efforts to improve the energy efficiency of our buildings, transport, public service and industry. In this context, REFEREE aims to Analyse and quantify the direct and indirect non-energy impacts of energy efficiency investments Develop an easy-to-use tool to support policy makers at the national, regional and local level....

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...

In January 2015, seven leading think tanks and foundations joined forces to form Vision Europe Summit, a consortium created to address some of the most pressing public policy challenges facing Europe. Through research, publications and an annual summit, we aim to be a forum for debate and a source of recommendations to improve policy-making at both a national and EU level and to foster as appropriate European integration. The Vision Europe project brings together seven convening organizations are, originating from seven different European countries: Bertelsmann Stiftung (Gütersloh), Bruegel ...

The Global Trade series is a collaboration between AIG and a number of international organisations with leading expertise in the field: Georgetown Law, Institute of International Economic Law; Chatham House; the Clingendael Institute; the International Chamber of Commerce; the Delors Institute; the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; and the Bertelsmann Stiftung (Knowledge Partner) In 2021, the AIG Global Trade series plans to continue these important conversations by focusing on a wide range of the most important trade-related issues.

Launched in the weeks following the agreement in principle between the EU and China on a comprehensive investment agreement (CAI), this working group is led by Sylvie Bermann, Ambassador of France. It mainly follows the evolution of the balance of power between the two powers in the economic, technological, security and global governance fields in a rapidly changing international context. Members of the group BERMANN Sylvie, Chair of the Working Group, Ambassador of France LAMY Pascal, President Emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute, President of the Paris Peace Forum ABIS Sébastien, Dire...

The work of this working group focuses on the role and place of the European Union in a world turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine. Under the chairmanship of Nicole Gnesotto, the group studies the notion of European power and the areas of influence of the EU and its Member States. Members of the group GNESOTTO Nicole, President of the Working Group LAMY Pascal, President Emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute, President of the Paris Peace Forum BITTERLICH Joachim, Member of the Board of Directors of the Jacques Delors Institute, Former Ambassador of German...

From the migration narrative for tomorrow’s Europeans to reception and integration policies and legal labour migration, all dimensions of European migration and asylum policy are reviewed in the publications of this group led by Jérôme Vignon, advisor at the Jacques Delors Institute. The working group also studies the dynamics surrounding the negotiations of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum proposed by the European Commission in September 2020. Members of the group VIGNON Jérôme, Chairman of the Working Group, Advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute BALLEIX Corinne, Deputy Head ...

The Académie Notre Europe provides students with an innovative approach to European issues by offering a flexible educational path adapted to current events. All activities are provided by practitioners and personalities of the European construction. The training also includes various trips to discover the EU institutions and actors in Europe. The Academy follows a dual objective: Promote exchanges between opinion leaders and protagonists of European integration Train and guide young people between the ages of 18 and 30 free of charge and thanks to the courses of very high level speakers It i...

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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...