Projects
Energy Business Models and Systems
DuneWorks is coordinating the research into new business models and entrepreneurship for innovative energy services.
N.I.C.E.
Duneworks is providing strategic transition and learning community advise for the Dutch Northern Innovation-fieldlab Circular Economy.
Behavioural change in relation to the transition away from gas
We did research and contributed to guidelines to support municipalities in designing participatory neighbourhood-strategies to transition away from natural gas (in Dutch).
Nature4Cities
In the European project Nature4Cities, we help develop user-centred strategies and mechanisms to plan and implement Nature-based Solutions.
Energy poverty
An essay written together with Susanne Agterbosch (Het PON) about the distributional effects of energy transition policy on energy poverty (in Dutch).
Uptempo! Accelerating the energy transition by innovation intelligence
How can learning contribute accelerating the energy transition? DuneWorks is involved in UpTempo! as advisor 'transitions and learning'.
Climate change dialogues
DuneWorks is co-organiser of dialogue sessions in two Dutch municipalities on the impact of climate change at local communities and their resilience.
Open Innovation in the Composites Sector
DuneWorks is one of the process facilitators Open Innovation and innovation cluster for the composites sector North-Holland.
Community-based Virtual Power Plants
We investigate how a community-based virtual power plant can create value for the community through the generation, storages, self-consumption and distribution of energy.
Board Memberships
We hold various board membership positions for several academic and advisory boards.
Demand Response in Blocks-of-Buildings (DR-BOB)
In this project demonstrating demand response in blocks-of-buildings, we addressed how diverse demand response scenarios affect building users.
Neighbourhood transformer
We developed a participatory trajectory for sustainable renovations in social housing neighbourhood based on environmental justice principles.
SHAPE Energy
Duneworks was partner in this platform for better integration and collaboration of social sciences in European energy policies.
Energy and Behaviour
DuneWorks was co-coordinator of the international research programme on behavioural change and energy policy.
Aireys
A co-creative project with the ambition to make the Aireys neighbourhood more sustainable focusing on social, economic and environmental improvements.
Dynamic Pricing
We performed a literature review to assess possibilities for demand response targeting households in the Netherlands.
Sustainable lifestyles
DuneWorks conducted research on policies that governments can use to encourage sustainable lifestyles.
Green Deal Smart Energy Cities
DuneWorks was one of the process managers, facilitating knowledge sharing between stakeholders and municipalities to consolidate a Green Deal.
cimulact
We were involved as external evaluator in this project, a stakeholder dialogue to develop a European research agenda reflecting societal needs.
Use IT Smartly
In this project we developed and tested a peer-to-peer approach with adolescents to enhance their awareness about sustainable IT use.
Stedin: Hoog Dalem
DuneWorks performed the research amongst residents in the all-electric neighbourhood Hoog-Dalem.
Save at Work
Duneworks was the external evaluator of the H2020 project Save@Work.
Build Upon
Build Upon Ruth was one of the Change Leaders of ‘Build Upon’, a Horizon 2020 project which aims at helping European countries design and implement
FlevoTop
During the FlevoTop (2017) - a citizen’s summit – citizens from Flevoland province developed plans to tackle regional challenges.
Local democracy in transition
DuneWorks conducted research on participatory democracy in Amsterdam. This resulted in the report ‘Democracy in Transition’.