NOVA School of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT NOVA)

The NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA) is one of the three largest and most prestigious schools of Engineering and Sciences in Portugal. It is renowned for its excellence in research, the quality of its courses, and the high employability of its graduates (graduates, masters, doctors). 

NOVA FCT, with about 8500 students, has one of the best university campuses and is distinguished by a culture of excellent teacher-student relationships and an intense academic life with many different cultural and sports activities. The dedicated team working on Energy Poverty and related areas is part of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research of the Department of Sciences and Engineering, which has over ten years of strong expertise and proven international research and policy support. The team is at the front line of energy poverty research from the global to the local level, based on analytical, technological, and social extensive expertise, namely through training and stakeholders’ engagement with public and private organisations, knowledge dissemination, and dialogue between politics and science.

Besides their past expertise and work carried out on the Energy Poverty Advisory Hub development, they are also part of multiple EU-funded projects on energy poverty and interlinked topics (e.g., HORIS; ENTRACK, LOCATEE, HUB IN). We are anchored on a robust transdisciplinary science-based approach leveraged by different expertise and a broad group of partners and entities at a global scale. The team has an extensive track record in national and local policy support, scientific publications, stakeholder engagement, knowledge sharing, and capacity building at multiple levels. Team members have served on numerous advisory boards of EU projects and taken part in a vast number of international networks of experts on energy poverty, energy efficiency, and housing vulnerability within Europe (e.g., Fuel Poverty Research Network, ENGAGER – Energy Poverty Action) and around the world (e.g., with central and South America on RIPEBA, VENUS, VIbra-IS).

• Country:
  
  PT
• Type:
  
  University/ Research center
• Areas of work interest:
  
  Research and Innovation

  Policy and Advocacy

  Community Engagement, Education, Awareness
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