News & Events
The 1st SWICE Conference Concludes with Remarkable Success and Collaborative Spirit
We are thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of our inaugural SWICE conference, which brought together enthusiastic participants and highlighted remarkable achievements. This momentous event provided a platform to showcase the groundbreaking work of our WPs...
SWICE Webinar 1. Wellbeing and sufficiency
SWICE project aims to identify conditions for high well-being with low energy use, as well as transition pathways towards such conditions. In this webinar, we’ll explore approaches to well-being, and the link to human needs, sufficiency, and provisioning systems, as...
SWICE Newsletter 1
Check out the SWICE first newsletter! In this issue, we will be providing you with updates on the main objectives of our project, introducing you to the members of our consortium, highlighting the exciting work taking place in our SWICE Living Labs, and sharing...
Energy research in real life
"At SWICE, we focus on people as drivers of change. We focus on the built environment as a place of change – from individual buildings to neighborhoods". Marilyne Andersen, SWICE coordinator, explains to SFOE the main objectives of the SWICE project and what is...
SWICE Operational Management Team meeting
Today, in our SWICE Operational Management Team meeting, we discussed on how to make our project management agile and dynamic, to ensure a smooth coordination and collaboration among the partners.Our multidisciplinary team of work packages leaders already reported on...
SWICE kick-off meeting
Today the SWICE consortium and its cooperation partners met at Smart Living Lab of Fribourg to get the SWICE project officially started. With more than 60 participants, the kick-off meeting laid the foundation for a fruitful trans- and interdisciplinary collaboration...
A sustainable energy transition starts with individuals
EPFL and the Smart Living Lab will embark on an eight-year research project designed to help Switzerland cut its energy use. A key feature of the project lies in the way it will engage with people through Living Labs. By bringing together universities, businesses and...