The Citizen Energy Breakfast Sessions are a series of short, focused webinars designed to share practical experiences and lessons from citizen energy initiatives across Europe. Each webinar will focus on a different topic and region, with a guest speaker involved in a successful citizen energy project. The format emphasises audience discussion, creating a space for knowledge sharing and meaningful connections.
Each 60-minute session includes a 15-minute presentation from the guest speaker then 45 minutes for audience engagement, affording you the opportunity to ask the speaker questions, discuss with the other attendees, and share your experiences.
The series can be attended by members of the Citizen Energy Network, a free and growing community dedicated to knowledge-sharing, networking, and collaborating to drive citizen-centred energy solutions. Anyone can join the network in just a few minutes.
Two webinars in this series will be scheduled each year and dates will be communicated through the newsletter and on the website's Events pages. Sign-up to the quarterly newsletter to keep up to date.
To ensure broad access to knowledge, recordings of the speakers' presentations, excluding the Q&A sessions, will be made publicly available from this page, after each webinar has occured.
In this first Breakfast Session, community worker Stefan Goemaere shared the story of the Papillon project, an award-winning initiative in Belgium that helps low-income families access energy-efficient appliances and cut consumption. Join to learn how citizen-led solutions can reduce energy poverty and inspire change at regional and national levels.
In this second Breakfast Session Hemma Bieser, Co-founder and Managing Director of OurPower, a unique digital platform, offering people the opportunity to share electricity with each other on their own terms and take control of their energy supply.