The NOTRAP centre explores the societal side of the energy transition and provides tools for governance of the challenging changes. The transition is unprecedented with respect to speed, depth, and impact on energy systems and markets, and has vast influence on societies, citizens, and policymakers.
Innovative ways of governance are needed, and 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.
New policies, less polarizarion
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 analyzing current policy scenarios and their shortcomings, co-constructing new policy pathways with citizens and stakeholders in creative and disruptive EPIs, and prospectively evaluating their economic, social, and political implications along different societal dimensions, as well as their implementation potential.
Concept
At the core of the centre is a series of Energy Policy Incubators (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.
Funding and administration
NOTRAP is located at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The centre has a five-year agreement with the VISTA program, and is financed with NOK 25 million over the five year period. NTNU contributes with its own funding.
NOTRAP is led by Christian Klöckner, Professor in Social Psychology and quantitative methods at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences.
