Vulnerability to heatwaves and public health: Identifying indicators for EU policies on energy renovation of residential buildings

SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence) is a Horizon Europe project, engaging directly with stakeholders across research, policy, and business (including citizens) to strengthen social innovation, SSH-STEM collaboration, transdisciplinary policy advice, inclusive engagement, and SSH communities across Europe, accelerating the EU’s transition to carbon neutrality. 
SSH CENTRE is based in a range of activities related to Open Science, inclusivity and diversity – especially with regards Southern and Eastern Europe and different career stages –  including: development of novel SSH-STEM collaborations to facilitate the delivery of the EU Green Deal; SSH knowledge brokerage to support regions in transition; and the effective design of strategies for citizen engagement in EU R&I activities. Outputs include action-led agendas and building stakeholder synergies through regular Policy Insight events.
This is captured in a high-profile virtual SSH CENTRE generating and sharing best practice for SSH policy advice, overcoming fragmentation to accelerate the EU’s journey to a sustainable future.
The documents uploaded here are part of WP2 whereby novel, interdisciplinary teams were provided funding to undertake activities to develop a policy recommendation related to EU Green Deal policy. Each of these policy recommendations, and the activities that inform them, will be written-up as a chapter in an edited book collection. Three books will make up this edited collection - one on climate, one on energy and one on mobility. 
This file provides supplementary data for Chapter 6 ‘Vulnerability to heatwaves and public health: Identifying indicators for EU policies on energy renovation of residential buildings’ of the book ‘Strengthening European climate policy: Governance recommendations from innovative interdisciplinary collaborations’. It includes the description of a set of indicators to asses vulnerability to heatwaves related to exposure, sensitivity and adaptability as well as the literature reviewed to compile them.  In addition, it includes the programme of an expert seminar held on 12 January 2024 at the University of Seville entitled "Vulnerability to heatwaves and energy renovation in Seville".