Academic Collaborative Center for Climate and Energy
Climate change, partly caused by greenhouse gas emissions, is already affecting millions of people in their daily lives and this will only increase in the future. To slow down climate change and accelerate the transition to other sources of energy, energy and climate goals need to be translated into concrete actions, at international, European, national, and regional levels., Tilburg University is working with social partners to realize those actions.
The main obstacles are social
Although new technologies offer solutions, the challenges facing society must be tackled at the social level: administrative, legal, psychological, financial, and economic . For example, there are few incentives for citizens to actually change their behavior; complex regulations get in the way of great initiatives and cooperation amongst the government, the business community, and civil society organizations is often difficult. What we need is not only technological innovation, but also social innovation.
Collaboration
Within Tilburg University, researchers from various disciplines collaborate on research related to Climate and Energy. Researchers do this together with governments, businesses, and civil society organizations in the Academic Collaborative Center for Climate and Energy. The Collaborative Center strives for long-term structural collaboration with all these parties to conduct research together with them, put it on the agenda, and translate it into interventions.
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Themes
Three connected themes are central to the Academic Center’s collaborative agenda.
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Partners
Working in co-creation with partners on issues in the Academic Collaborative Center. Who are involved?
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Researchers involved
An interdisciplinary network of researchers from various Tilburg University Departments involved in the Academic Collaborative Center in the climate and energy community.
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News
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Retrospect: National Inspiration Day Regio Deals 'From assignment to doing'
22nd March 2024The National Inspiration Day Regio Deals 'From assignment to doing' was mainly about meeting each other, exchanging experiences and getting ideas. The program included lectures by Otto Raspe and Martijn Groenleer.
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Different disciplines meet during matchmaking event
19th March 2024On March 7, the Digital Sciences for Society strategic program, in collaboration with TAISIG and the university-wide Academic Collaborative Centers, organized a matchmaking event. Researchers from the various Schools explored opportunities for research collaboration at the intersection of the digital sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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Loss of ecosystems incurs higher costs than previously estimated
07th March 2024Across the globe, animal and plant species along with their habitats are disappearing. With this loss, we also lose the 'services' they provide, such as water filtration or crop pollination. An international research team, including Sjak Smulders from Tilburg University, has proposed a new calculation approach to capture these future 'benefits' of nature. The research has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Science.
Articles
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The energy transition as a social challenge: “This will only succeed if everyone sees the necessity”
At the university-wide Academic Collaborative Center for Climate & Energy, researchers from different disciplines join forces with social partners that possess knowledge about the energy sector, to look for solutions for the energy transition. Grid operators, for instance, are perfectly willing to place batteries to relieve pressure on the overburdened power grid in the Netherlands, but that’s not so simple given current regulations.
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The use of green hydrogen and the chicken-and-egg problem: how the law can solve it
How do we move away from the use of fossil fuels towards climate neutrality? Sustainable hydrogen has great potential but is not widely available yet, nor are we ready to use it. Law scholar Max Baumgart of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and society (TILT) is investigating how to stimulate markets for sustainable hydrogen as well as innovation by means of rules and regulations.
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Academic Collaborative Center for Climate & Energy: ‘This raises questions that we might not otherwise have asked’
A smart and socially equitable energy transition. That is the mission of the Academic Collaborative Center for Climate & Energy. This wide-ranging theme calls for a multidisciplinary approach involving a selection of civil-society partners.
Projects
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VIA AUGUSTA: Infrastructure management and the potential of a System-of-Systems (SoS) approach
The VIA AUGUSTA project helps infrastructure managers understand when an SoS approach is beneficial and how it can be supported through effective IT, inter-organizational, and regulatory governance.
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MEGAMIND: AI and regulation in the electricity system
MEGAMIND focuses on the so-called edges of the electricity system: the distribution networks and the electricity producing and consuming devices connected to them.
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BOLSTER - Bridging Organizations and marginalized communities for Local Sustainablity Transitions in Europe
Exploring unexplored justice aspects of the European green transition and empowering those who are left behind.
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Academic Leads
Contact
The Academic Collaborative Center is part of ENGAGE.EU