This year we are excited to be heading to Fribourg/Freiburg for a full day of presentations, workshops and networking, in partnership with our sister consortium SWEET Lantern.
📅 Wednesday, June 10th
🕑 8:45 – 15:30
📍 Fribourg/Freiburg (Salle Grenette)
📝 CONFERENCE TRACKS
Topic 1 – Sufficiency in the Built Environment & Renovation Strategies
How can sufficiency-oriented design and renovation reduce demand while improving quality of life?
- Sufficiency principles applied to building renovation
- Space optimisation, shared spaces, and adaptive reuse
- Trade-offs between energy, comfort, cost, and embodied carbon
- Design strategies balancing environmental and social performance
- Governance and policy instruments enabling sufficiency-oriented renovation
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Topic 2 – Recreational Practices, Sustainable Mobility & Energy Demand
How do recreational practices and mobility systems — often associated with freedom, well-being and quality of life — simultaneously drive energy demand, and how can they be reconfigured toward low-carbon, sufficient and equitable futures?
- Recreation, comfort and energy demand
- Equity, access and spatial dimensions of recreation
- Mobility systems and everyday travel practices
- Sustainable mobility transitions: modal shifts, electrification, shared mobility, and demand reduction
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Topic 3 – Energy Communities and Energy Systems
How can collaborative, bottom-up approaches facilitate sustainable energy solutions and ensure strong social acceptance?
- Demand response and load shifting
- Flexibility potentials of residential and non-residential buildings
- Impacts on occupants and daily practices
- Digitalisation, automation, and trust
- Social acceptance and governance
- Interactions between technical systems and social organisation
SWICE is a research project sponsored by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy’s SWEET programme (Call 1-2021 “Living and Working) and coordinated by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The SWICE academic consortium researches well-being in the energy transition. Our research focuses on the built environment, open spaces, and mobility, with a strong Living Lab component.
SWEET – “SWiss Energy research for the Energy Transition” – is a funding programme of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) whose purpose is to accelerate innovations that are key to implementing Switzerland’s Energy Strategy 2050 and achieving the country’s climate goals.