Detailed programme
Day 2

The conference programme for our upcoming Behave 2025 conference is now available! It includes parallel sessions presenting topics such as social practices of sufficiency, new business models for transition, positive narratives and many others. We will strive to ensure a balanced representation of attendees, allowing participation from all European nations and countries beyond. To register for this in-person event, click on the "Register now" button and then select the parallel sessions you would like to attend during our 2-day conference.

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Registration & Coffee

 

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Plenary Session

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Round 4
Break-out sessions

1
Dec 12, 2025
10:45 AM12:00 PM

Contributions of multidisciplinary approaches to behaviour and social practices

Description
- What Drives Energy‑Efficient Renovations? Exploring the Uptake of Thermal Insulation Among Austrian Homeowners - Simón Ladino Cano - Unraveling the hassle factor as a psychological barrier to demand flexibility for Dutch households through survey-based research - Mariëlle Rietkerk - Changing behaviour in smartphone postal collection: comparing barrier reduction and commitment strategy in a field experiment. - Dimitri Naczaj - Energy Waste Triad: conceptual framework and literature review - Yekatherina Bobrova
2
Dec 12, 2025
10:45 AM12:00 PM

Energy poverty and vulnerable consumers

Description
- Flexibility for All? Unpacking Readiness and Equity in Demand Side Management - Lisa Diamond - Exposing ‘energy injustice gaps’: the case of young adults in Paris. - Ute Dubois - Characteristics of Effective Energy Coaching as Policy Measures to Alleviate Energy Poverty-Related Aspects - Arianne van der Wal - Motivation vs. Means: The influence of financial capability on homeowners’ insulation decisions - Peter Conradie
3
Dec 12, 2025
10:45 AM12:00 PM

Public participation in the development of energy and environmental policies

Description
- Reinventing our lifestyles. From awareness to collective action - experimenting with new indicators for diverse and fair sufficiency-efficiency-decarbonation trajectories and for the well-being of all - Benoist du Creist - Uncovering residential gas consumption archetypes: machine learning-based household segmentation using Woon 2018 - Bei Wang - Healthy Home: Promoting Home retrofitting for older adults' Well-being and improving climate resilience - Mariagiovanna Gaglione
4
Dec 12, 2025
10:45 AM12:00 PM

Infrastructures, enabling conditions, social dynamics and collective practices favoring sufficiency

Description
- The relationship between energy equity and sufficiency: Initial expert perspectives - George Warren - Mapping the Reuse Potential of Vacant and Under-occupied Buildings for Housing: insights from the project TRIOMPH - Sonia Veyssière-Matino - Energy saving potential via sufficiency measures in residential buildings in Europe - Jan Verheyen - The impact of sufficiency in the French residential sector on investments for energy transition - Victor Mannoni
5
Dec 12, 2025
10:45 AM12:00 PM

How can the behavioural sciences help policy makers to access more end-use flexibility? A special EnR/Users TCP session

Description
- Evaluating flexibility potential of heat pumps and electric vehicles given behavioural factors: results from a study commissioned by the Users TCP and 4E TCP - Regina Hemm - The Potential for flexibility from a consumer perspective – insights from a Dutch Field Study - Nicole de Koning - Encouraging residential demand flexibility: Results from large-scale field experiments in Canada, The Netherlands and the UK, undertaken through the Users TCP Behavioural Insights Platform - Ondřej Kacha
6
Dec 12, 2025
10:45 AM12:00 PM

Just transition / Public participation & community involvement

Description
- Is it the taking part that counts? Exploring the dynamics of community participation in the energy transition - Lucy Kinnear - How to make the ecological transition of buildings a just and more inclusive transition? - Barbara Nicoloso - Energy Transition in the New Era : Renewable Energy-centered Policies under the new Government of Korea - Yulim Choi

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch break

Lunch buffet in central area

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Round 5
Break-out sessions

1
Dec 12, 2025
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Behavioural solutions in companies

Description
- Sunny, Flexible or Fast? Flexible Charging of Electric Vehicles in Public - Cajsa Bartusch - Rethinking work for a sustainable future: development of a scenario-based assessment tool of emerging working models and their energy and CO₂ impacts in Swiss companiesd CO₂ Impacts in Swiss Companies - Evelyn Lobsiger-Kägi - Assessing Sustainability and Behavioural Trends in the Maltese 4- and 5-star Hospitality Sector - Simon Paul Borg - Reducing Sludge for Residential Retrofitting - Bob van Rugge
2
Dec 12, 2025
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Public participation in the development of energy and environmental policies

Description
- Do I Wanna Know? Predicting Information-Seeking and Avoidance Behaviour in the Context of Sustainable Fuels - Maike Keil - Public Participation in Municipal Energy Transition: the Case of Lac-Mégantic’s reconstruction - Bruno Bourliaguet - Who is Most Influenced By Sludge? Experimental Evidence - Glenn McNamara
3
Dec 12, 2025
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Acceptability and ownership of public policies by stakeholders and the public

Description
- “With or without you”: Resistance and support from high-level energy stakeholders regarding citizen participation in energy sufficiency strategies in France and the Netherlands - Adrien Chanteloup - When are the co-benefits enough? An experimental study of support for sufficiency policies in Ireland - Ciarán Lavin - Incentivizing sustainable air travel: understanding passenger acceptance of behavioural instruments in aviation - Leon Rieger
4
Dec 12, 2025
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Contribution of sufficiency practices to the transition

Description
- Why Accept Limits? Exploring Perceptions of What is Just and What is Enough through French Households’ Modes of Consumption -Jérémy Bouillet - Quality over Quantity: Investigating the macroeconomic impacts of quality-oriented consumption as a sufficiency lever - Kilian Rouge - Reframing sufficiency: The role of co-benefits and the affluent in accelerating sustainable consumption - Nico Benoist - Sustainability transformation potentials of non-urban mobility in Switzerland: Perspectives from residents in non-urban areas - Corinne Moser
5
Dec 12, 2025
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Integrating social science knowledge into energy and material modelling for the development of ecological policies

Description
- Conceptualizing energy efficiency adoption of homeowners: a theoretical ABM framework incorporating uncertainty - Saeed Abkari - Policy Impacts on Heating System Adoption in Switzerland: Integrating individual behavior into an Agent-Based Model - Ola Elassal - Sufficiency and collaborative foresight for a just and secure hydrogen transition: integrating social preferences into energy system modelling - Vincent D'Herbemont
7
Dec 12, 2025
1:30 PM2:45 PM

Engaging People and Policies: Behavioural and Participatory examples to Energy Transition

Description
- Guiding Municipalities Through Participatory Processes: A Framework for Participation in Climate-Resilient Transformation - Louise Meister - Exploring Energy Efficiency perception: findings from 2025 Italian Survey - Anna Amato - Energy saving obtained through information and training actions: Italia in Classe A campaign - Anna Amato

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Round 6
Break-out sessions

1
Dec 12, 2025
3:00 PM4:15 PM

Contributions of multidisciplinary approaches to behaviour and social practices

Description
- Willing-to-share what? Data sharing and energy efficiency behavior –empirical evidence based on the privacy calculus model - Anne Kesselring - Willingness to share energy data - Stefanie Hatzl - Decoding household preferences for behind-the-meter home energy transition over time based on interpretable machine learning - Na Li - Beyond Technical Solutions: Integrating Social Data to Reduce Inequality in Urban Energy Interventions - Hector Steenbergen-Cockerton
2
Dec 12, 2025
3:00 PM4:15 PM

Energy poverty and vulnerable consumers

Description
- Is there a sufficiency effect ? Energy Poverty as a mirror in the French Context - Elma Hadzic - Low-Threshold Energy Consultations and Appliance Replacement for Vulnerable Households: Insights from an Austrian Support Scheme - Aaron Bartsch - Shifting the gaze: An assessment of children experiencing energy poverty in the Netherlands - Thomas Schuurman Hess - Hidden Energy Users: Who Are They And Why Are They Hidden? - Laney Sullivan
3
Dec 12, 2025
3:00 PM4:15 PM

Stakeholder and public acceptability and ownership of low-carbon projects and technologies

Description
- A study on consumer acceptance of direct load control - a load off one's mind? - Cajsa Bartusch - Public Acceptance of Building Decarbonization Measures - A Systematic Literature Review - Fouad El Gohary - Community Acceptance and Rejection of Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Projects in the Province of Ontario, Canada: Insights from Macro- and Micro-Investigations - Ian Rowlands - Consumer acceptance of innovative resource-efficient Mycelium-Bound Composites - Jonas Krauss
4
Dec 12, 2025
3:00 PM4:15 PM

Instruments used by public authorities to promote and develop sufficiency practices at different territorial levels

Description
- Beyond technology and energy supply. Conceptualising a toolbox for including sufficiency measures in scenario projections - Johannes Thema - Crisis-proof, socially and environmentally compatible - Impulses for the development of a sufficiency strategy for Germany - Frauke Wiese - Walking a tightrope: Acceptance and preferences for communicating self-restraint and sufficiency - Eva-Maria Schomakers
5
Dec 12, 2025
3:00 PM4:15 PM

The role of scenarios and foresight exercises for carbon neutrality

Description
- The importance of including societal change in energy system modelling - Felicitas Ortlieb - Quantitative representation of lifestyles: a systematic literature review - Simon Gauthier - Macroeconomic impacts of a sufficiency scenario for the EU: the CLEVER scenario - Meriem Hamdi-Cherif - Nudging Sustainable Engagement in Businesses: The Role of Cultural Values - Khushi

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Plenary Session

1
Dec 12, 2025
4:30 PM5:30 PM

Plenary Closing

Description
Philippe Masset, Director, European and International Affaires Directorate, ADEME Patrick Jolivet, Director, Just Transition, ADEME