New projects
Two new third-party funded projects have been acquired by the Institute of Civil Law for the period 2025 - 2028. The PI (Principal Investigator) in both cases is Prof. Dr Brigitta Lurger, with the participation of other professors from the University of Graz.
The aim of the "3EC - Empowering European Energy Consumers" project (03/2025-03/2028) is to support consumers in engaging in an active sustainability-oriented energy consumption - as envisaged by the EU and national legislators - by improving the current legal framework of the EU energy market.
The project builds on the results of the EU Horizon 2020 project EC2 ec2project.eu - Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean-Energy Transition (2021-2024) in which the 3EC research team participated.
The 3EC team, consisting mainly of social psychologists and lawyers, will, first, develop a scientifically reliable and valid measure of active sustainability-oriented energy consumption (ASEC) behaviour. Second, the team will supply research on the relationship between individual characteristics of consumers, contextual factors and ASEC behaviour. In a next step, these variables will be used to classify consumers into different groups using a latent variable approach.
