Organizer

• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• IEA Wind Task 62 / BRIDGE – Building Research-informed Inclusive Dialogue for Global Wind Energy

Participants will take stock of current social science research, identify important evidence gaps and open questions, and explore opportunities for stronger international, interdisciplinary, and research–practice collaboration.

Programme Wednesday, October 7

• 10:00 Exchange IEA Wind Task 62
• 12:00 Arrival, registration of participants, coffee
• 13:30 Opening address
• 14:30 PM Sessions
  • Session 1: Organisational culture & Capability
  • Session 2: Land use conflicts
  • Session 3: Social justice (income, culture, ...)
  • Session 4: Open session for additional topics
• 16:00 Break
• 16:30 Plenary meeting
• 18:00 City tour
• 19:00 Dinner

Preliminary programme Thursday, October 8

• 8:30 Coffee
• 9:00 Sessions
  • Session 5.1: Impacts on residents: WT noise annoyance I
  • Session 6.1: Narratives / Story Telling I
  • Session 7: Energy sharing
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Sessions
  • Session 5.2: Impacts on residents: WT noise annoyance II
  • Session 6.2: Narratives / Story Telling II
  • Session 8: Gamification
• 12:15 Break
• 12:30 Plenary Meeting
• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Sessions
  • Session 9.1: Financial participation / benefit sharing I
  • Session 10.1: Visualisation I
  • Session 11: Regional culture and identity
• 15:30 Break
• 15:45 Sessions
  • Session 9.2: Financial participation / benefit sharing II
  • Session 10.2: Visualisation II
  • Session 12: Participative Planning, procedural justice
• 17:15 Break
• 17:30 Plenary Meeting
• 19:00 Dinner

Preliminary programme Friday, October 9

• 9:00 Coffee
• 9:30 Plenary Meeting, synthesis of symposium outcome, preparation for WESC 2027
• 11:30 Farewell, End of symposium
• 12:00 Task 62 Meeting

Two prominent sessions will be held by IEA Wind Task 62 experts from BOKU University in the framework of the WindPlan project:

• Patrick Scherhaufer on Social Justice
• Thomas Schauppenlehner on Visualization and Participatory Planning

Target Audience

This international working symposium will bring together:

• international experts and members of IEA Wind Task 62 / BRIDGE
• members of the German Energy Transition and Society Research Network
• researchers from ongoing federally funded projects
• practice partners working within the energy transformation

Participant Information

Registration

As the symposium is limited to 80 participants please register as soon as possible, but latest by 15th of September. To organise the meeting rooms we ask you to register for your most preferred sessions, too.

Registration

Costs

There are no registration fees. Beverages and lunch are provided. You are invited to a guided city tour. Participants have to cover their travel and accommodation costs and the dinner.

Participation arrangements

The symposium is organised in interactive sessions to allow in-depth exchange. Oral inputs as well as handouts are possible (one page, DIN A4; arranged like a poster – if needed, they can be called a poster). When you register, you can let us know if you would like to give an input. Maybe you would like to lead a session on a topic that seems to be missing, so far? Three more sessions would be possible. Please let us know via the registration page.

To share the sessions output in the plenum each session will deliver three output slides

1. State of the art
2. Open questions
3. Recommendation

BOKU University
Patrick Scherhaufer
E-Mail: patrick.scherhaufer@boku.ac.at

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Social- and Environmental Psychology
Prof. Dr. Gundula Hübner
E-Mail: gundula.huebner@psych.uni-halle.de