EFPORE-SE project aims to improve the public treatment of energy poverty. The research team will use data from each partner country and follow state-of-the-art statistical, spatial, and econometric approaches to develop methods for measuring EP. The innovative part of the main goal is to identify measurable changes in energy needs observed in several countries with different socioeconomic status, political governance, and population structure, as well as in behavior that people cover their energy needs. The integrated project tasks will attempt to: a) investigate the causal relationships between fiscal and socioeconomic variables and energy poverty in Southern European countries, b) interpret the observed changes between countries, and c) investigate policy initiatives on issues such as the public and fiscal finance system.

Collaborating Organizations: Panteion University (Greece); Technical University of Crete, (Greece); National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, INRCA, (Italy); Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, (Portugal); Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, (Spain)

Duration: 24 months

Funding: Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI)