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.
* * *
The project is funded by National Science Centre, Poland, under the OPUS call in the Weave programme (2021/43/I/HS4/03185).
news
In Autumn 2024, we conduct extensive field research in Poland and Czechia with Czech Technical University in Prague.
On July 15-19, Jan Frankowski participated in the Global Coal Transitions Network Conference at Ohio State University.
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.
For the first time, we have presented the results of analyses of housing cooperatives based on registry data.
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 16th January 2023, IBS and CVUT teams met in Warsaw to officially start the ENBLOC project.
In 2023 we will start a new international project OPUS WEAVE devoted to housing and energy transition.
Resources
Minor adjustments to Poland's administrative (territorial) division happened almost every year. The crosswalks include all TERYT codes for municipalities and counties applicable in a given year and a reason for changes for each unit.
The database of housing cooperatives in Poland and the Czech Republic as of September 2023.
Publications
The importance of energy as a common good becomes especially pronounced during crises. This paper reconstructs the response of housing cooperatives to the energy crisis by applying Kenneth Burke’s five categories of theatre interpretation and eighteen impression management strategies inspired by Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical sociology to assess the dominant cooperative approaches. ...
This study constitutes preliminary analytical material concerning the adaptative capacity of housing cooperatives to accommodate energy transition in Poland and Czechia. This report comprehensively utilises administrative data from Polish and Czech national registers for the first time. These data have been employed to (1) compare Polish and Czech ...
persons from IBS
