COST Action CA16232 - Action Title: European Energy Poverty: Agenda Co-Creation and Knowledge Innovation

Sonja Risteska from Analytica joined an amazing team of professors, researchers & activists in the Action: European Energy Poverty: Agenda Co-Creation and Knowledge Innovation, supported by the COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology for the next three years. This Action aims to engender transformational change in the level of scientific knowledge on the investigation and amelioration of household-level energy poverty (EP) in Europe, while leading to the development of comprehensive, innovative and evidence-based policy frameworks.

Specific Objectives of the action are:

Research Coordination

- Create a trans-disciplinary analytical approach for understanding the driving forces of EP

- Develop a common framework for determining the extent of EP

- Bring into being an active platform for European dialogues on researching and addressing EP

- Generate trans-disciplinary innovation in EP research and policy.

Capacity Building

- Increase the technical and scientific competence of network participants

- Produce new partnerships, exchange opportunities, and collaborations

-Generate leadership opportunities for ECIs and participants from COST and Near Neighbour countries

- Identify and follow up specific funding avenues for new projects.

On the 7th November, at COST HQ in Brussels, Belgium took place the 1st Management Committee Meeting of this Action where the COST mechanism as well as the Action were presented, the partners got to know each other and the next steps where decided.