Research

The future of European competitiveness requires higher education institutes (HEIs) to develop linkages with businesses and establish incentives for researchers to become entrepreneurs, as stated in the recent report by Mario Draghi. Moreover, growing challenges such as climate change are changing the world we live in. The vision of U!Innovate for 2030 is to boost European competitiveness in the domain of climate-neutral and smart cities through strengthening entrepreneurial and innovation competences at our HEIs to become true entrepreneurial universities.

The level of energy resilience directly affects the success of a PED. It determines to what extent the energy system of a PED can deal with societal disturbances, such as climate-induced threats, (geo)political instabilities or recurring economic crises. Energy resilience as a design principle in PEDs can provide security and stability. In this project, we develop an energy resilience framework with a specific focus on PEDs.