SWICE Newsletter

May 2026

SWICE + Lantern Conference 2026

The programme is out and registration is open!

Our yearly conference will take place on the 10th of June in Fribourg, and we have been working hard to organise another outstanding event.

In 2026, we are strengthening our ties with our sister consortium SWEET Lantern further, by organizing a joint conference. This will be a great opportunity for cross-pollination and to build research bridges between our scientific communities.

👉 Full programme

👉 Registration (closes on May 27th!)

As usual, you can expect to learn all about the leading research on wellbeing in the energy transition, a focus on participatory formats, and ample time to catch up with your colleagues.

Abstracts from presentations will be available in English, French and German, and participants will be allowed to ask questions in any language.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Webinars

The latest webinar in our SWICE x Lantern series is now online!

Our colleagues Noah Balthasar and Francesca Cellina presented their latest research into how to change people's behaviour towards using low-carbon mobility options.

In the words of our moderator for the day Patrick Rérat, "there will be no energy transition without a profound transformation of our mobility practices".

👉 Rewatch webinar. 

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➕ We are teaming up with SWEET EDGE for a webinar on the role of local engagement and social dynamics in the energy transition. Our colleague Evelyn Lobsiger-Kägi will share her experience working in Living Lab Lokstadt.

Register here to join us on the 8th of June, 11:30AM! 

Launch of ChatSufficiency

🤖 We're happy to add a new tool into the SWICE toolbox!

ChatSufficiency is a conversational engine that distills insights from over 550,000 academic articles on sufficiency.

The tool makes the scientific landscape around sufficiency more accessible, helping researchers, policymakers, and practitioners navigate definitions, evidence, and applications of sufficiency across disciplines.

It was developed by Yamina Saheb and her team at the World Sufficiency Lab, using funds from SWICE and other sources.

👉 Link to ChatSufficiency

Research corner

Mind the acceptability gap: Integrating lifestyle diversity into energy sufficiency analysis of the Swiss residential building stock

Fatih Topak, Til Sommer, Debora Schwalm, Bernhard Redl, Julien Nembrini, Bernadette Sütterlin and Kristina Orehounig

This study examines how differences in lifestyle and acceptance constrain the realizable energy demand reduction from household-level sufficiency measures in the Swiss residential building stock. The authors combined building energy simulations with national household data and a nationwide survey to assess the practically achievable energy saving potential of five sufficiency measures. The results show that realizable savings are substantially lower once acceptability is accounted for, with most measures delivering less than half their theoretical potential.

👉 All SWICE publications are listed at sweet-swice.ch/publications

What's next? 

10.06.26 | SWICE Conference, Fribourg

16-17.06.26 | SSH Energy 2026, Zürich

01.09.26 | SWEET Conference, Bern

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