ENBLOC – Enabling energy transition in postsocialist housing cooperatives

The project aims to assess the adaptive capacity of housing cooperatives in internalising energy transition based
on the example of Poland and Czechia.

In the project, we will:

• collect data on housing cooperatives in Poland and Czechia based on administrative registries,
• explore and assess housing cooperative strategies for dealing with energy transition and energy price increases,
• disentangle power relations inside housing cooperatives and their associations with other institutional actors
  such as heating companies and municipalities,
• investigate how and to what extent housing cooperatives and their residents perceive their readiness for short-
  and long-term energy price increases.

The research uses various methods, including household surveys, discrete choice experiments and several dozen interviews with decision-makers in housing cooperatives. The results will enable us to identify modes of action in particular types
of housing cooperatives and provide adaptative transition scenarios for multi-family housing entities in CEE countries.

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The project is funded by National Science Centre, Poland, under the OPUS call in the Weave programme (2021/43/I/HS4/03185).