MISTRAL Work Package 5

The University of Saint Gallen will lead this work package. Research will focus on developing original scientific insights into social acceptance, primarily focusing on market conditions.

By linking studies of market instruments to how the socio-political and community responses are shaped, the work will examine the role of the broader framing influences of specific institutional conditions, regulations and path dependencies in how they shape the conditions for socio-acceptance of energy projects. It will examine this at a range of scales and seek to make links with both community and socio-political dimensions by, for example, examining the impact of differing policy regimes on overall levels of acceptance and the progress of energy transition.

Five linked ESR inter-disciplinary projects (ESR 11-15) will vary in how they examine the different scales (micro to macro) that govern market conditions.

Specific training and dissemination events will engage representatives from different sectors (business, regulatory, policy makers, communities) with specific real-life challenges for policy and the social dimensions to energy transition.