Project Scouts at the 2nd UNI-SET Clustering Event: “Universities in the Energy Transition: Focus on Energy Efficient Systems and Nuclear Safety” took place on 26-28 September 2016 and was be hosted by the Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy.

The objective of the UNI-SET event was to mobilized the European university community to tackle the “energy challenge” by fostering inter-university cooperation and the voice of universities in the development of energy policy at EU level. The event intended to stimulate discussion among university leaders from different disciplines in order to explore the development of innovative and multidisciplinary research and education programmes. Different specific opportunities for “clustering” knowledge were offered, in which research and education leaders from different disciplines presented their views on the specific priorities of the SET-Plan.

The event in Turin was expected to bring the validation of the general “European Roadmap for Universities in Energy”, which came from the discussions at the first ECE at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, 24-26 February 2016). Another major objective was to agree on an outline of a European roadmap for universities in the fields of energy efficiency and nuclear safety, in line with the general roadmap.