“Let’s change! Il clima sta cambiando. Parliamone”, the Public and Social Engagement – ​​Third Mission project of the Department of Engineering and Architecture at UniTS, continues. The effects of climate change are increasingly tangible in Trieste too. Negative impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems and extreme weather events such as flooding and heatwaves are causing increasingly significant damage to the local area, to infrastructure and facilities of public interest, to economic activities, and to health. From this perspective, sharing scientific knowledge on the ongoing transition and promoting awareness-raising initiatives and mobilizing governments and civil society is increasingly urgent.

On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 5:30 PM, the Urban Center, located at Corso Cavour 2/2, Trieste, will host the third meeting of the project "Let's Change! The Climate is Changing. Let's Talk About It," titled "Sustainable Energy, Collective Energies: Towards New Communities".

Introduction:

Mauro Gasparetto, Renewable Energy Community of San Dorligo della Valle

Carlo Antonio Stival, Department of Energy, University of Trieste

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) are forms of aggregation that enable citizens, businesses, and local authorities to produce, consume, and share energy generated from renewable sources at lower costs. The recent establishment of a REC in San Dorligo della Valle offers the opportunity to discuss, in practical terms, on the application of these tools to larger and more complex urban contexts such as Trieste. Reflecting on constraints and opportunities, procedures, and spatial conditions necessary for the development of decentralised energy models encourages broader thinking about local actions and policies, as well as about processes of information-sharing and active citizen engagement.

The three meetings in the series "Adapting Trieste to Climate Change. Towards a Participatory Agenda of Possible Actions" are designed as opportunities for collective discussion aimed at identifying concrete proposals to be presented to city institutions by October 2026.

The participatory roundtables are open to anyone interested in sharing positions and solutions to make Trieste a city capable of adapting to ongoing climate change.

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