I try to attend at least one conference a year and am happy for you to get in touch with me. Below is a list of some of the main conferences and presentations I have given over recent years.
10.2025 Energy Communities Leadership Programme, led by ICLEI, part of ENPOWER project (online) capacity building programme (Sept–Oct 2025) focus on social engagement
10.2025 Sustainable Places conference 2025, Milan, Italy. How social dimensions can be used to inform Energy Tool Development, a qualitative analysis of tools for energy communities. J. Blanke, A Hearn, I Schubert, A. Revez and A. Sohre.
14-18. 06.25 ICEP conference, Vilnius. Presentation “Making Positive Energy Districts a success; stakeholder strategies and collaborations from across Europe”
18.03.25 Climate Pact Ambassador Annual Assembly, European Commission, Brussels. Workshop “Building connections: engaging your community through co-creation workshops”
26.09.24. Global Religion and the Climate Crisis, Hamburg Environment-related Religious Engagement. Evidence from Switzerland (online)
17.06.24. International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, Oslo Challenges to the replicability and scalability of Positive Energy Districts; stakeholder coordination
25.04.24. AMS, Reinventing the City Conference, Amsterdam, Engagement in Energy Communities: comparing strategies, barriers and success factors
31.08.23 International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, Utrecht How do religious organisations engage with environment-related SDGs and what are the perceived barriers to this?
29.06.23 Woolf University Hesse Public Seminar Series, How do religious organizations engage in the sustainability transition?(Online see link for recording) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0J3KS4sik4&t=178s
27.06.23 Arborescence, Les scenes ecospirituelles en perspective Lausanne, Switzerland, What are the barriers and tensions to religious environmental engagement? (in French)
23.05.23 Pint of Science, Basel, Switzerland Can city districts become sustainable? The case for PEDs.
26.09.22 United Nations General Assembly 77th Science Summit (UNGA77). Presentation: The potential for Positive Energy Districts in Africa (online)
07-09.09.22 INUAS conference, Winterthur Presentation: A Just transition? Positive Energy Districts (PEDs), Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) and public spaces, an energy justice perspective
13-16.07.22 European Science Open Forum (ESOF) conference, Leiden, Netherlands. Hybrid poster presentation and video: What are positive energy district stakeholder perceptions and measures for mitigating energy vulnerability?”
04-06.07.22 International Association of people and Environmental Studies (IAPS) conference, Lisbon, Portugal presentation: Inclusive low-carbon transitions? PEDs and Energy Poverty
30.06–01.07.22 Swiss Social Sciences and Humanities Energy Research Workshop, Martigny, Switzerland. Presentation (in person): Positive Energy District Stakeholder perceptions and measures for energy vulnerability mitigation, and how this relates to Swiss districts.
19.05.22 Leipzig Public Climate School, Climate Protection in Europe presentation and panelist: How to Make the Green Deal a Success
16.02.2022 AMS Reinventing the City Conference: Presentation: Can Positive Energy Districts help to mitigate energy vulnerability and bring about a just transition?” And PED symposium: Policy Interventions for developing Positive Energy Districts: the challenge of scaling-up in a fair, effective and inclusive way
6.10.2021 ICEP Conference Siracusa: Presentation: PED creation in Spain and community energy initiatives; towards a just transition.
Adam X. Hearn 