II FLORENCE ENERGY INNOVATION BOOTCAMP

Event Format

The Energy Innovation Academy is organized under the scientific supervision of the FSR Energy Innovation, headed by prof. Miguel Vazquez (George Washington University and Florence School of Regulation), with support from the coordinators from the YSI Complexity Economics Working Group (special event of the WG), in addition to the Sustainability and Latin America Working Groups.

During the mornings, the program aims to present the state of the art of the discipline on specific theoretical or applied topics. At the end of each morning, specific workshops will elaborate on specific research questions or methodologies. The format for these sessions will be a roundtable followed by open Q&A.
In the afternoons, the academy seminars will take place. Young Scholars have the opportunity to present and discuss their own research with experienced mentors and other participants of the academy.

Deadline for abstracts: September 21, 2019

Scholars may submit an abstract or a complete paper in english. There are no format or length requirements. If the work is selected, they will be invited to participate and present in the Academy. We will base our selection on all available information – no single factor will be determinant. We seek candidates in terms of their contribution to a diverse and high quality research community.

Targeted Audience

The targeted audience consists of young scholars (Graduate students, PhD candidates, Postdocs) and early career researchers from all regions of the world (both developed or developing countries) working on innovation, complexity economics, economic development and sustainability topics related to the energy sector. Students interested in regulation are particularly encouraged to participate.
Selected students based in Europe will have their travel tickets fully covered, being those flight or train tickets, depending on the case. We would be able to cover some amount of travel tickets for selected students from other continents.
We will cover accommodation and serve lunch and coffee breaks to all selected students.
Scholars may submit an abstract or a complete paper in english. There are no format or length requirements. We encourage those who have a paper to submit it rather than an abstract, so we could have more information for the selection process. The scientific committee will analyze the academic merit of the work, and its relevance to the topic of the academy. Diversity is also important for event, both in terms of topics and in terms of the backgrounds of the participants.

Profile of hosting institution

The European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute established by European Union member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences, in a European perspective. It is a reference in Innovation studies, being a central institution in the European debates about current hot-topics such as climate change, energy transition, and regulation.

FSR’s auditorium (Badia Fiesolana) where the bootcamp will be held

The Florence School of Regulation (FSR) is part of the EUI, being a centre of excellence for independent research, training and policy dialogue. The FSR has been founded in 2004 as a partnership between the EUI's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the Council of the European Energy Regulators (CEER) and the Independent Regulators Group (IRG). The school also works closely with the European Commission.
The FSR organises academic and policy events dealing with key regulatory issues, provides academic training for practitioners, produces regulation research and promotes networking and exchange of ideas in the Energy and Climate fields, joining policy and business decision-makers, regulators, regulated companies and academics from different countries both inside and outside Europe.

Organization

The YSI Event is organized by the Complexity Economics, the Latin America and the Sustainability Working Groups.
The FSR counts with a scientific committee that will select participants. The organizers of the YSI workshop will join the Scientific Committee to help select the Young Scholars, as well as to design the call for papers, to handle applications, to co-design the event’s agenda, and to help with the event’s dissemination.
The FSR is in charge of financing the Senior Speaker travel costs. FSR will offer its auditorium and support staff for logistics.
YSI will focus its effort on covering students and Young Mentors travel tickets, accommodation (4 days) and catering (Lunch and coffee breaks).

Project Timeline:

Opening Call
21-08
Closing Call
21-09
Extra week for the Call
28-09
Results
21-10
Beginning of the Course
26-11

Topics of interest:

• Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Role of developing countries in the energy transition and climate debates
• Disruptive technologies and disruptive technological trajectories within low carbon sources (hydrogen, carbon capture, etc.). Utility-level electricity storage is a topic of special interest
• Topics within the transport sector, such as fleet electrification, electric vehicles vs. bio-based transport (ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, etc.)
• Socio-technical sustainable transitions, applications of evolutionary and institutional theories to the energy field. Special interest is paid to cross-fertilisation between those streams (e.g. co-evolution studies)
• Non-linear or nonparametric econometric modelling, as well as other types of modelling. Special interest is paid to network analysis, agent-based models and other applications of complex systems to the energy sector
• Local, national or supranational case studies on energy topics. Comparisons, when applicable, are encouraged
• Special interest is paid to demand-related topics, such as digitalisation, internet-of-things (IoT), energy efficiency, etc. Studies on the social impacts of energy topics are also encouraged, e.g. the effects of decarbonisation on the labour force
• Experiments and applications of behavioural economics to energy topics, both in relation to demand and supply-side topics within the energy field

Overall, special interest is paid to the intersection with policy and regulation topics.