Policy makers on all levels of governance are confronted with the complex challenge of designing effective and responsible interventions, for which they need to integrate insights from many disciplines. The combination of multiple interventions should lead to the desired outcome on the overall system level.

At the IAS, researchers from many different disciplines are brought together to explore an integrated system's approach towards assessing and implementing the energy transition. Key questions to be addressed are:

How can the energy transition be realised as fast as possible, taking into account the many boundary conditions that apply as well as aspects related to society, economy, and ecology?

How can lessons from the past be used to design successful policies and instruments for the future? How can science work together with society to find an optimal transition path?

Seminar series

The UvA Future of Energy network organises monthly seminars. The programme of each seminar consists of two presentations on the energy transition, coming from different academic fields, followed by general discussions that are relevant for the UvA Future of Energy network.

In the event calendar you can find all upcoming events. In the seminar archive you can find all presentations of past events. 

Research Lead

Research Group Members

External Faculty Members

Keywan Riahi

Director of the Energy Programme of The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Visiting Professor, at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria.
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