Introduction to the Project

RIPEET supports territories in establishing experimental spaces to address the territorial dimensions of the European Green Deal, in line with Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). Leveraging the involvement of ERRIN's Energy & Climate Change Working Group leaders, the RIPEET project will support Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) policy experimentations for energy transition in three European territories - in Extremadura (ES), Highlands and Islands of Scotland (UK) and Ostrobothnia (FI). These territories will be at the heart of the project's activities, offering real-life settings to test, pilot, and validate RIPEET's methodology via the Transition Labs. RRI-based Transition Labs will create collective stewardship of the territorial energy future via participatory instruments and serve as a framework for envisioning sustainable energy futures. They are points of departure for collective approaches aiming to create more open, inclusive and self-sustaining R&I eco-systems. The framework conditions, processes and outcomes of these experiments will be mapped, monitored, and evaluated. This constitutes an evidence-base for the revision of sectoral policies, strategies and research and innovation (R&I) instruments as well as for establishing a European RIPEET community.

Project Objectives

  • Overall objective 1: RIPEET conducts transformative R&I policy experiments aiming to identify niches and to co-create sustainable energy transition pathways with territorial quintuple helix stakeholders which results in more open, transparent and democratic territorial R&I systems.
  • Overall objective 2: RIPEET establishes novel, self-sustaining, and transparent governance relations within territorial energy R&I eco-systems that are based on open and democratic process of niche and transition management and creates positive societal, democratic, environmental, economic and scientific impacts.
  • Overall objective 3: RIPEET creates transformative R&I working methods within and between actors, that promote greater sustainability and inclusiveness, initiating transformation processes of the organisations involved at the level of the territories and beyond.

ERRIN's Role

ERRIN has established a Community of Practice of six additional "mirror ecosystems" in Andalucia (ES), Lithuania, The Aran Islands, Galway (IE), La Réunion (FR), Eigersund (NO) and Silesia (PL). Based on the learning in the three RIPEET territories, a peer-learning scheme is enabling mutual learning, mentoring and inspiration, disseminating the results and lessons learned from the experiments to other territorial ecosystems: the replicability and effectiveness of RIPEET’s approach and related methodology will be the backbone of its exploitation potential. Moreover, ERRIN is in charge of the overall communication, dissemination and exploitation activities of the RIPEET project. 

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  • Ryan Titley
  • Director of Projects
  • Rodolphe Doité
  • Project and Policy Manager
  • Francesca Pozzebon
  • Project Officer

Benefit & Links

ERRIN members had the opportunity to apply for the Community of Practice and benefit from the peer learning scheme: they will take up and replicate the RRI-based energy transition approach validated through RIPEET. The objective is to build a community of practice bottom-up, using the driving force of a mentoring and twinning scheme, which identifies a shared domain of interest, creates a common repertoire of resources and experiences and weaves the social fabric which enables collective knowledge sharing.

Project in Action

News

News

RIPEET boosts co-creation for energy transition in EU regions

On 17 and 18 January 2024, ERRIN held an event focusing on stakeholder engagement methodologies in energy transition as part of its project, RIPEET. The event gathered local and regional authorities, co-creation experts, European Commission representatives and researchers to discuss the critical role of stakeholder engagement in energy transition. 

RIPEET launches a Call for Innovative Energy Solutions in its Pilot Regions

In the frame of the H2020 funded project RIPEET ‘Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations in Energy Transition’, the Pilot Regions: Outer Hebrides (UK), Ostrobothnia (FI) and Extremadura (ES) are launching a call for innovative energy solutions to best tackle the regions' specific challenges and contribute to sustainable energy transition.

Join the RIPEET Community and foster the energy transition in your region

As part of the Horizon 2020 RIPEET project, ERRIN is building a community of passionate regional representatives committed to shaping the regional energy vision of the future. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to benefit from a peer-learning scheme to replicate the RIPEET methodology and foster the energy transition in their region.

ERRIN’s new project: RIPEET  

ERRIN has become a partner in a Horizon 2020 funded project RIPEET. Mobilising ERRIN’s Energy & Climate Change Working Group leaders, the RIPEET project will support Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) policy experimentations for energy transition in three European territories: Extremadura (ES), Highlands and Islands of Scotland (UK) and Ostrobothnia (FI). 

Learn more about the ETHNA system project

ERRIN is an associated partner in the ETHNA system project, which aims to develop and apply an ethics governance system for the use of RRI in higher education, funding and research centres. Learn more about the project in its second newsletter.

Latest Updates

  • By Rodolphe Doité

RIPEET boosts co-creation for energy transition in EU regions

On 17 and 18 January 2024, ERRIN held an event focusing on stakeholder engagement methodologies in energy transition as part of its project, RIPEET. The event gathered local and regional authorities, co-creation experts, European Commission representatives and researchers to discuss the critical role of stakeholder engagement in energy transition. 

  • By Francesca Pozzebon

Express your interest in future collaboration opportunities on stakeholders' engagement

On 17 January 2024, ERRIN will host a future collaboration opportunities session focusing on stakeholders engagement across different sectors, which will see the active participation of RIPEET pilot ecosystems and partners. The session will focus on calls related to stakeholders engagement in the field of energy, climate resilience and adaptation, and built environment, with deadlines in mid-2024 and early 2025.

  • By Rodolphe Doité

Regulatory Sandboxes in the Energy Sector - Call for examples

The Energy and Climate Working Group is looking for examples of the creation or the use of regulatory sandboxes in the energy sector, to be presented in an upcoming meeting on this topic on Tuesday 12 December between 14:00-15:30 CET.

  • By Rodolphe Doité

Hydrogen Roadmap – Survey for the Call for Evidence

The European Commission will soon publish a call for evidence (expected in June 2023 and open for four weeks) to collect further input from multiple stakeholders for the roadmap. In this frame, ERRIN wishes to produce an input paper.

  • By Francesca Pozzebon

RIPEET launches a Call for Innovative Energy Solutions in its Pilot Regions

In the frame of the H2020 funded project RIPEET ‘Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations in Energy Transition’, the Pilot Regions: Outer Hebrides (UK), Ostrobothnia (FI) and Extremadura (ES) are launching a call for innovative energy solutions to best tackle the regions' specific challenges and contribute to sustainable energy transition.

  • By Francesca Pozzebon

Energy & Climate Change WG meeting on Sustainable Buildings - call for presentations

On Friday 30 September from 10:30-12:00, the Energy and Climate Change Working Group will host a hybrid event on the topic of Sustainable Buildings. A call for presentations to be presented during the meeting is now open until 25 September.