<< Objectives >>Green cooperation cities is a 12 month project carried by the city of Grenoble and the city of Essen. One of the priorities of the European Commission is a greener Europe. We understand that projects need to be designed to improved living conditions and adapt our urban environment to the challenges of climate change.<< Implementation >>The main activities of the project will consist in the beginning of a long cooperation in environmental matters between workers in charge of green topics, through 4 transnational meetings including training workshops and involving different type of participants and project coordinators. All the activities will be based on principles and methodologies of non formal education, onsite exchanges of practices will allow to develop green skills.<< Results >>We would like to get really inspired and more conscious on how to avance and continue with green transitions, that our expert have the capacity to continue facing new challenges. Also we will continue these exchanges with the objectif of building a bigger partnership with different european green cities and apply for a KA2 to open up for new practices and continue the dynamic of the green capital award.

SONNET aims to create an inter- and transdisciplinary understanding of the diversity and processes of social innovations in the energy sector (SIE). It assesses - critically and reflexively- the success, contributions and future potential of SIE towards sustainable energy transitions in Europe. SONNET investigates how, to what extent and under which enabling conditions diverse types of SIE may result in new breakthroughs or successfully help to overcome transition barriers; such as limited citizen engagement or slow adoption of new technologies. SONNET’s empirical research is informed by a novel conceptual framework combining insights from sustainability transitions, energy studies and social innovation literatures. It bridges qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches in an innovative multi-method research design. Across 30 qualitative in-depth case studies situated in six European countries, SONNET investigates the diversity, processes, success and contributions of SIE. Given its focus on urban areas as major hubs for SIE, SONNET conducts six transdisciplinary SIE city labs to experiment with new forms of SIE and learn about how multiple actors can harness the potential of SIE. In addition, based on three large-scale representative citizen surveys, SONNET assesses the future potential of SIE and derives implications for reconfiguring existing and developing new business models. SONNET synthesizes its findings in an integrated knowledge framework for a socio-economic, socio-cultural (incl. gender) and socio-political understanding of enabling and impeding conditions for SIE and SIE contributions when working towards accelerating sustainable energy transitions in Europe. Through a cutting edge co-creation, dissemination and exploitation strategy, SONNET ensures that its practical recommendations, tools and capacity building activities have a maximum impact on its key stakeholders such as citizens, SIE actors, policy makers, and businesses.