Q4Q - Quarter by Quarter: Alternatives to Natural Gas and the Future of Gas Distribution Networks in the Municipal Heat Transition, Sub-project: Knowledge Transfer, Conflict and Consumption (Q4Q: WKK)

Project staff
Stefanie Baasch (project leader), Katharina Renout, Charlotte Schmid

Duration
01/2024 – 12/2026

Funding
Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)

Project partners
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), The Energy-Institute in Essen, Germany (Gas- und Wärme-Institut Essen e.V., GWI), Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM)

Description
The artec sub-project investigates how target-group-specific participation can contribute to a more socially just design of the heating transition. For this purpose, participatory methods for the analysis of consumption patterns and knowledge transfer will be developed and tested with different stakeholders and addressees. The aim is to gain knowledge for the (further) development and implementation of the heating transition. The empirical work is based on literature and document analyses as well as workshops and interviews. A transdisciplinary research design is applied, in which both the individual research steps and the findings are jointly designed by the scientific and practical partners. Another area of work is dissemination and stakeholder integration. The focus here is on the transferability of the project results to other regions and the transfer of scientific findings and results into both practical use and scientific discussion.