The COST Action Positive Energy Districts European Network (PED-EU-NET) aims to mobilise researchers and other relevant stakeholders across different domains and sectors to drive the deployment of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) in Europe through open sharing of knowledge, exchange of ideas, pooling of resources, experimentation of new methods and co-creation of novel solutions.

This COST Action will build up a PED innovation eco-system that helps to find solutions to the diverse challenges stemming from different domains. It will do so by bolstering dialogues among relevant stakeholders and stimulating collaboration along and across domains and sector-specific value chains. This is key to co-create solutions for the planning, financing, deployment, replication and mainstreaming of PEDs. It will harmonise, share and disseminate knowledge and breakthroughs on PEDs in different domains at a European level. It will explore various forms of governance involving public-private-people partnerships and provide insight into practical approaches for evidence-based governance for the development of PEDs. This will lead to increased knowledge sharing both within and outside European research organisations and encourage mashup innovation across academia, industry, cities and communities.

Start date: September 2020 - End date: September 2024

Working Groups

• WG1 - PED Mapping, Characterisation and Learning

Leader - Mr Michal KUZMIC

• WG2 - PED Guides and Tools

Leader - Ms Nienke MAAS

• WG3 - PED Laboratories, Monitoring and Replication

Leader - Ms Ghazal ETMINAN

• WG4 - Dissemination, Outreach and Exploitation

Leader - Prof Maria-Beatrice ANDREUCCI

More information here.