Here you find a number of externally financed research projects with involvement of NNC members. Please click on the link for more information regarding the project.
SOCION: Dynamics of Social Cohesion in the Face of Climate Change. This research cluser focuses primarily on how climate change-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviours are related to networks and other institutional structures, including (social) media.
TBA: As part of the DFG-NWO weave program, the project investigates how public opinion on the energy transition is formed, using empirically informed AI-based language models (LLMs) and opinion dynamics models. Expected start is January or Feburary 2027.
EmPowerEd: The NWO funded project aims to deliver a theoretically informed and empirically validated scalable and integrated systems co-creation approach for carbon-neutral heating that can be tailored to the specific local PED context. It addresses key knowledge gaps in citizen engagement, governance and technology. The consortium of 11 knowledge institutes and 38 societal partners includes diverse citizen groups, civil society organizations, municipalities, grid operators, housing associations and technology & service providers, united in a community of practice. EmPowerED’s novel systems-design toolbox to co-create local heat solutions for PEDs will be tested in real-life use cases and experiments to ensure usability and capacity building.