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On 22nd February 2024, Jan Frankowski took part in a debate during the Clean Air Forum at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw.
On 16-17 January, teams from IBS and the Czech Technical University in Prague met for the second time to cooperate in the ENBLOC project on the energy transition of housing cooperatives in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The IBS team was responsible for preparing contributions to The European Commission's 2023 Thematic Review " Fair Transition Towards Climate Neutrality ". Our report concerned the situation in Poland.
Jan Frankowski conducted a workshop dedicated to the transformation of district heating in rural areas as part of the FEANTSA panel during the #EURegionsWeek in Brussels.
For the first time, we have presented the results of analyses of housing cooperatives based on registry data.
Jan Frankowski, an expert in energy transition, recently participated in the "Energy Transition in Times of Crisis" conference held at Södertörn University in Stockholm.
On 19-20 September 2023, the International Conference on Energy Poverty took place at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Jakub Sokołowski, Jan Frankowski, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, and Aleksandra Prusak represented IBS at the Conference.
Out of over 30 applications, six cities were awarded grants by the ICA Fund: Bogota, Dar es Salaam, Los Angeles, Quezon City, Vancouver, and Warsaw, representing the only European city to receive the grant.
From June 28th to 30th, 2023, Jan Frankowski participated in the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR) conference. This is the largest scientific event focused on housing studies in Europe.
On June 14-15, 2023, the final conference of the TIPPING+ project took place in Brussels, attended by researchers from the IBS.
During the New Year's workshop, the researchers of IBS presented the latest research findings on energy transformation to chosen stakeholders responsible for fostering and conducting climate policy in Poland.
1-2 December 2022, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, Jan Frankowski, Jakub Sokołowski and Baiba Witajewska-Baltvilka participated in a TIPPING+ project workshop hosted by the Paris School of Economics.
28-29 October 2022, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, Jakub Sokołowski and Jan Frankowski presented IBS research results at the conference „From the Grassroots to Policy and Back: Putting Just Transition to Practice” in Katowice.
The Conference „Tipping Points. From climate crisis to positive transformation” took place at the University of Exeter (12-14th September).
Jakub Sokołowski and Jan Frankowski participated in a final meeting of COST ENGAGER Network Conference „Engaging with energy poverty in times of crisis” (11-13.04.2022).
'Guidelines for the Upper Silesian Territorial Just Transition Plan' is the newest research report prepared for WWF by IBS experts.
The purpose of the research was to estimate the scale and describe the characteristics of energy poverty in łódzkie voivodeship, along with recommendations for institutions implementing public policy addressed to the energy-poor households.
In the new project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme we will analyse what makes clean-energy transitions in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions successful and effective. IBS will carry out an analysis of labour market implications of coal transition and a study on tipping points in the rise of populism.