Knowledge Integration for Neighborhoods in Energy Transition led by Inclusive Communities
Who are we?
The KINETIC Consortium holds powerful expertise in topic-related issues, demonstrated through a relevant portfolio of research projects mostly supported and funded by European Commission Programs. The KINETIC team is constituted of multiple actors working trans-disciplinary, in order to cover and tackle all challenges and topics that KINETIC and its high level of research imply. KINETIC is composed of multiple ranges of experts in urban planning, sustainable environmental development, energy transition, quality of living and all sub-topics enrolled in it (smart cities, citizen participation, scientist analysis, etc.)
What do we do?
The KINETIC project creates an international collaboration of cities and experts for an integrated approach to assessing Positive Energy District (PED) deployment, generating capacity building of local communities towards the co-creation of feasible transformation strategies, with the help of innovative community-oriented tools and planning instruments. The innovative aspect of KINETIC is empowering the local communities as key actors of change. Beating the “green premium” (representing the additional cost of choosing a clean technology over one that emits a greater amount of GHG), is considered possible with the powerful active involvement of local actors, in a transdisciplinary and transgenerational approach.
KINETIC deploys an integrative process of understanding and assessing the transformation of neighborhoods into PED. In the 21st century, following the third industrial revolution way of thinking, the household should behave like a sustainable “powerplant”, maximizing the energy and material flows of the family that inhabits it. Translating the idea to the urban context, each neighborhood should outsource the energy they consume locally. Thus, the family is actually the local COMMUNITY that, through KINETIC will be empowered to joint decision-making, for transforming their own neighborhood with the help of having the technical solutions at disposal and easy to grasp in an integrated approach.