NOTRAP
NOTRAP
- VISTA Center for Norwegian Transformative Energy Policy Development – NOTRAP
The energy transition is unprecedented with respect to speed, depth, and impact on energy systems and markets, not to mention its vast influence on societies, citizens, and policymakers.
Even though the transition has barely started, we already see how it contributes to social unrest and resistance, polarization, and populism, which threatens to eventually weaken democracy.
Innovative ways of governance are needed, and the forefront of European energy research increasingly focuses on this nexus of energy transition and democracy.
NOTRAP will contribute to this pivotal research frontier by establishing Energy Policy Incubators (EPIs), which co-construct transformative, contextualized energy policies with citizens, policymakers, industry, scientists, and other stakeholders.
Vision and objectives
The vision of NOTRAP is developing a methodology for creating innovative, equitable, and transformative policies for the Norwegian energy transition as well as assessing their impact on economic, environmental, and socio-political levels.
NOTRAP will achieve this by
- iteratively analyzing current policies and their shortcomings.
- co-constructing new policy pathways with citizens and stakeholders in creative and disruptive EPIs.
- prospectively evaluating their economic, social, and political implications along different societal dimensions (e.g. rural vs. urban; center vs. periphery; gender, energy literacy, political orientation etc.), as well as their implementation potential.
Research plan for the five-year period (2024-2029)
The figure below outlines the research plan of the NOTRAP center. At the core of the center is a series of EPIs. An EPI is an innovative energy transition policy co-creation space where transformative, contextually sensitive energy policies are co-developed engaging stakeholders of the quadruple helix (policymakers, industry, citizens, science). What sets these EPIs apart from other methods of stakeholder engagement is the radically new methodology for creating outside-the-box thinking and their integration with a comprehensive policy pathway assessment.
Center members
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Gustav Agneman Associate Professor
+46793587908 gustav.agneman@ntnu.no Department of Economics -
Hilde Bjørkhaug Professor
+47-73412992 +4797180178 +1548-577-4763 hilde.bjorkhaug@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Casper Boks Professor
+47-73590102 casper.boks@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Stefan Geiss Professor
+47-73591774 stefan.geiss@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Anne Borge Johannesen Head of Department
+47-73590529 +4741215281 anne.borge.johannesen@ntnu.no Department of Economics -
Erica Margareta C E Löfström Researcher
+4747668766 erica.lofstrom@ntnu.no Department of Psychology -
Espen Moe Professor
+47-73592230 +4797656678 espen.moe@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Paolo Pisciella Researcher
+47-73593121 paolo.pisciella@ntnu.no Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management -
Jens Olgard Dalseth Røyrvik Associate Professor
jens.royrvik@ntnu.no Department of Social Anthropology -
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold Professor of STS and Director of FME NTRANS
+47-73550189 +4793634270 tomas.skjolsvold@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Gisle Solbu Senior research fellow
+47-73591324 gisle.solbu@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Stepan Vesely Senior Researcher
stepan.vesely@ntnu.no Department of Psychology
