On 6 October 2016 Niall Dunphy, the Director of CPPU received a leadership award for his work in multi- and inter-disciplinary research at the annual UCC Staff Recognition Awards hosted by Dr Michael Murphy, UCC president.
On 12 June 2016, CPPU are running ‘energy games’ in conjunction with the annual Street Feast in the Community Garden, Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland. Young and old are invited to join us for fun activities, spot prizes, and food.
CPPU's Ger Mullally recently presented a paper on work from the ENTRUST project at the 2nd ‘International Conference on Smart and Green Transitions in Cities and Regions’ in Graz, Austria April 4-6, 2016.
CPPU contributed to the recent NATO Advanced Research Workshop ‘Towards Energy Efficiency through Behaviour Change in the Military’, organised by NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (NATO ENSEC COE) held in Vilnius, Lithuania 5-7 April 2016.
CPPU had a strong representation at the 26th Irish Environmental Researchers' Colloquium, ENVIRON 2016, held in Limerick, Ireland 22-24 March, with five participants delivering five oral presentations and two poster presentations on its ENTRUST and NewTREND H2020 projects.
The first plenary meeting of the NewTREND H2020 project, led by Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd. is being held in Glasgow on 7 & 8 October. The project, which commenced in September, aims to develop an integrated design methodology for energy retrofit specified for use for individual buildings and at the district level, addressing all phases of the refurbishment process.
As part of today's 2016/2017 Energy Work Programme Info Day in Dublin, CPPU Director, Niall Dunphy delivered a talk on the topic 'perspectives on success' sharing experiences from both coordinating and partnering in success FP7 / H2020 proposals and lessons from those than got away!
CPPU report on the state of play of Environmental Policy Integration (EPI) by Ger Mullally and Niall Dunphy has been published by the National Economic and Social Council.
Today May 1st, sees the start of the ENTRUST H2020 project - Energy System Transition Through Stakeholder Activation, Education and Skills Development. This €3.48m project coordinated by Niall Dunphy, Director of the Cleaner Production Promotion Unit at UCC’s School of Engineering, aims to develop an in-depth understanding of energy-related human behaviour and practices, in the context of socio-demographic factors such as gender, age and social status.
