Workshop materials: output summary notes; participant expertise register
Creators: name: Macrorie, Rachel
name: Arbabi, Hadi
name: Camacho McCluskey, Kaylen
name: Eadson, Will
name: Hannah, Richard
name: Simpson, Kate
name: Wade, Kaye
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: retrofit policy
place-based retrofit
inclusive supply chain
skills strategies

description: SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence) is a Horizon Europe project, engaging directly with stakeholders across research, policy, and business (including citizens) to strengthen social innovation, SSH-STEM collaboration, transdisciplinary policy advice, inclusive engagement, and SSH communities across Europe, accelerating the EU’s transition to carbon neutrality. 

SSH CENTRE is based in a range of activities related to Open Science, inclusivity and diversity – especially with regards Southern and Eastern Europe and different career stages –  including: development of novel SSH-STEM collaborations to facilitate the delivery of the EU Green Deal; SSH knowledge brokerage to support regions in transition; and the effective design of strategies for citizen engagement in EU R&I activities. Outputs include action-led agendas and building stakeholder synergies through regular Policy Insight events.

This is captured in a high-profile virtual SSH CENTRE generating and sharing best practice for SSH policy advice, overcoming fragmentation to accelerate the EU’s journey to a sustainable future.

The documents uploaded here are part of WP2 whereby novel, interdisciplinary teams were provided funding to undertake activities to develop a policy recommendation related to EU Green Deal policy. Each of these policy recommendations, and the activities that inform them, will be written-up as a chapter in an edited book collection. Three books will make up this edited collection - one on climate, one on energy and one on mobility.

As part of writing a chapter for the SSH CENTRE book on ‘Strengthening European energy policy: Governance recommendations from innovative interdisciplinary collaborations, we explored how best to develop inclusive pathways to a skilled (low-carbon energy) retrofit workforce. In doing this, we drew together academic and industry literature with insights from a workshop with academics and practitioners from the UK and EU. The workshop structure was developed using interdisciplinary perspectives spanning Civil and Structural Engineering, Energy Demand, Construction Management, Human Geography, and Sociology. It was designed to explore multiple aspects of supply chain development including: funding and delivery models, multi-actor partnerships, and geographical scales for intervention. 

Herein, we provide two pieces of supplementary information connected to this aforementioned workshop:-    Workshop activity-output summary, which summarises the key themes and takeaways from discussions held as part of this SSH-STEM collaborative workshop on retrofitting homes.-    Workshop participants expertise register, which includes information on the expertise and interests of participants who contributed throughout the workshop. Participants included representatives from municipalities, not-for-profit cooperatives, charities, standards bodies, and tradespeople.