Deadline: 15-Aug-23
The Virtual Exhibition of community experiences of Just Energy Transition (TEJ) seeks to disseminate the various proposals that arise in Latin America to resist and respond to the challenges of the environmental and climate crisis locally, promoting energy autonomy of communities and organizations.
This space is a platform for visibility and exchange to generate learning that will allow them, as a society, to understand more fully the challenges of what is known as civilizational crisis and how it implies thinking and changing, collectively, the development model as a whole, and not simply changing the sources that sustain an energizing society that is walking towards the abyss.
Areas
- Be a community experience of Just Energy Transition (TEJ) in Latin America, that is, an experience, innovation, development or practice that, from an energy point of view, allows activities to be carried out in an autonomous, efficient and sustainable way, in relation to one or several of the following TEJ areas:
- Area 1: Optimization of mobility or transportation: Reduction of travel times, configuration of short circuits for various daily activities, reduction of fuel use for transportation or cargo, among others.
- Area 2: Energy self-sufficiency: Development and implementation of alternative energies that reduce dependence on centralized external sources, seeking to reduce the environmental impact on the environment in which they are developed and used.
- Area 3: Energy efficiency: Integration of practices, technological developments and adaptations that allow improving, enhancing and optimizing processes from an energy point of view, making it possible to save time, economic resources, promoting actions, improving products or activities that permeate and enable the social welfare.
- Area 4: Changing patterns of energy use and consumption: Actions to replace forms of consumption that imply high use or expense of various natural goods or economic resources, which integrate recognition of the availability of products in the nearby environment, or even organizational articulations that promote autonomy and reduce external dependence on private energy projects.
- Area 5: Relationships that integrate various uses of energy: Recognition, by the proponent organizations, that energy permeates various types of relationships that go beyond the technology that allows it to be transformed and therefore, based on this understanding, actions of sovereignty, democratization and energy autonomy were woven. Examples of this can be: integration of waste in production processes, work grants or community support for specific activities, understanding of food as an energy source and its entire process, relationships around nature to enable cycles or ecosystem processes, etc.
- Area 6: Access of local communities to energy: Experiences in which communities enabled their energy autonomy in a decentralized manner, providing their own access without the intermediation of private companies.
- That the postulated experience comes from a group organized at the community level in Latin America, without it being a requirement that it be formally constituted; Individual/family experiences with a demonstrated high social impact are also welcome.
- May the experience contribute or complement actions such as environmental conservation, resilience in the face of the climate crisis, social-community management, the active participation of women and youth, and organizational strengthening.
- That the experience has generated reflections, debates or community exchanges on the transition, autonomy, energy sovereignty or the promotion of community alternative energies.
Funding Information
- In 2023 each will be eligible to receive COP $8’000,000 (or its equivalent in dollars if they are not in Colombia, depending on the exchange rate at the time of the transfer).
Eligibility Criteria
Proposals that apply for the exhibition and that meet the criteria of the call for proposals will be eligible:
- To be included in this website and disseminated in the social networks and platforms of Censat Agua Viva and the other organizations that promote the Exhibition.
- The four experiences that the juries evaluate as meritorious in this version may receive economic support to strengthen their exercises in the construction of energies for life.
For more information, visit Censat Agua Viva.