CONVOCATORIA “I-LINK” 2024 - RED DE INTERNACIONALIZACIÓN

The aim is to delve into the new challenges of housing and built environments concerning domestic energy use and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) that affect the population in inequity, vulnerability, health, and well-being. Specifically, daily tasks from living and newer ones, such as teleworking, boosted by the COVID-19 pandemic, are explored to determine their environmental, social, and economic impacts. This study has an exploratory nature, so two approaches are applied: 1) quantitative: we will analyze surveys, sharing previous and ongoing project insights from regions and other data-based analysis; 2) qualitative, we will explore individual/collective experiences from other techniques (interviews, focus groups, community sessions), using photos, either taken by participants (Photovoice technique or similar), or by Generative Artificial Intelligence (photo-elicitation). A mixed approach and transdisciplinary work contribute to shifts towards societal and environmental enhancement, in Climate Change context, following SDGs.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1) identify the main domestic challenges of each region of the consortium, with special attention to the Climate Emergency and housing, and energy vulnerability (specifically among youth, but also minorities and indigenous people), exploring up to three different continents (Northern and Southern Europe, South America, and Oceania); 2) detect domestic habits and behaviors, and their impacts on indoor environmental quality and energy use, both from daily life and new tasks, as teleworking, bearing in mind energy vulnerability and/or poverty, for each consortium region, with two approaches: a) quantitative techniques, such as questionnaires, adapted to the Global North and South, and other data from official national and supranational sources; and b) qualitative/participatory research techniques to enrich, triangulate and validate analysis by region, such as interviews, focus groups, or work with images; 3) assess multidimensional impacts of energy habits and vulnerability; 4) generate empowering training and capacity building to mitigate the diverse impacts and mitigate/adapt to Climate Change, according to region, and IPCC recommendations; and 5) Disseminate results and solutions, multilevel and through diverse channels (institutions, practitioners, academia, general public, underserved, and future generations).