Execute actions of real impact of the research results. The methodology will consist of the identification of problems or dysfunctions in public policies, the choice of the most useful STEP results for their correction and the continuous dialogue with those responsible for their application. Energy transition processes give social protagonism to the application of technological innovations, so the change from the fossil to the renewable energy model requires the contribution of social and territorial innovation methodologies from the Social Sciences.

The objective involves two sets of actions: impact assessment and zoning. The first one is linked to the previous objective, so they will share critical review methodologies and interviews to identify good practices in Environmental Impact Assessment in renewable plants when they incorporate a broad vision of the impact on the territory and the population. The zoning is based on the selection of excluding and conditioning variables for the installation of renewables using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) in ArcGIS. In both cases the correct insertion of the installations in the landscape will be taken into account.

This objective implies methodologies of characterization and valuation of heritage, definition of measures, and protection and evaluation of results. The gathering and review of information includes primary sources referred to planimetry and photographs together with participatory workshops with the people involved, and of course, also secondary sources. The method of analysis includes the morpho-typological recognition, the relationship of attributes and heritage values, the proposal of sectorization and the evaluation of impacts on heritage values in ArcGIS following an iterative modeling, and the definition of criteria for safeguarding and enhancement.

It comprises the literature review, fieldwork, sample and survey design, and data processing. The systematic review of the scientific literature is based on the definition of key terms in English and Spanish using several browsers. The fieldwork focuses on organising debate groups and semi-structured interviews with actors in the field of distributed energy in the case studies. Statistical validity analysis focuses on surveys collecting the opinions of prosumers in rural areas and urban districts.

Analyse, propose and guarantee the participation of women in energy communities. First, it involves the generation of information and the identification of variables for gender analysis in renewable energy projects. Secondly, it will document the factors that hinder women’s participation in territorial decision-making, for which it is necessary to identify women’s organisations as a driving force for collective action from the private to the public sphere. And third, it will point out the opportunities for new jobs and income generation for women and men in the energy transition process.

It is important to train professionals and students in the transition process to improve their career opportunities. The interdisciplinary nature of the team and the academic and non-academic networking imply cooperation between scientific staff with research experience and technical and consultancy staff for the development, design and dissemination of training activities. The methodology involves interaction and iteration between the team members through the organisation of doctoral courses, scientific dissemination in monographic seminars, the organisation of webinars in the field of professional and business associations, collaboration with educational centres and communication through social networks to the general public.

To accurately assess the development patterns of renewable energies in the Iberian Peninsula and to assign them the corresponding relevance. Starting from the current international and European Union context favorable to the energy transition, the method combines the critical review of strategic, planning and opinion documents, together with bibliographic and legislative documents. Besides, in-depth interviews are carried out, under a common questionnaire, with people responsible for policy design and technical implementation in Spain and Portugal, involving the national, regional and local scale. The development patterns are specified according to their relevance to the general objective of STEP and will take into account regional and cultural differences.