In line with the NEB Initiative, the discussion will highlight transformative pathways toward our built environment that empower vulnerable groups and enhance quality of life, ensuring that the climate-neutral transition in the European housing sector is accessible, acceptable, and affordable for />The event – in form of a 2-hour-long hybrid workshop in Brussels – invites participants to critically reflect on evidence-based policy and practice innovations across local, regional, national, and EU governance levels that can accelerate the energy and climate transition in the housing sector, while adhering to principles of inclusivity, beauty and acceptability, and democratic transformation. It thus focuses on actionable insights that support resilient, low-carbon, and socially just transformative housing pathways.

Designed as an interactive exchange to foster transdisciplinary collaboration between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, the workshop draws on the experience of the participants to examine boundary conditions for a successful implementation, transfer and scaling up of evidence-based policy recommendations as well as sociotechnical solutions embodying NEB values that are derived from empirical research findings across four ongoing EU />The projects offer complementary but distinct insights into the housing–energy/climate nexus, each focusing on places and people most affected by the transition along the dimensions of affordability, inclusivity and sustainability.