*Abstract* **Concepts of Empowerment: The Role of Energy and Environmental Citizenship in the Energy Transition †**

**Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu 1, Giuseppe Carrus 2, Frances Fahy 3, Andrea Kollmann 4,\*, Jens Olgard Dalseth Røyrvik <sup>5</sup> and David C. Finger 4,6**


**Citation:** Biresselioglu, M.E.; Carrus, G.; Fahy, F.; Kollmann, A.; Røyrvik, J.O.D.; Finger, D.C. Concepts of Empowerment: The Role of Energy and Environmental Citizenship in the Energy Transition. *Environ. Sci. Proc.* **2022**, *14*, 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/ environsciproc2022014009

Academic Editors: Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, Pedro Reis, Marie-Christine Knippels, Audrone Telesiene, ˙ Daphne Goldman, Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Jan Cincera and Kateˇrina Janˇcaˇríková

Published: 3 March 2022

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**Abstract:** This symposium brings together social science energy researchers working on gaining an understanding of the various social, economic and political dimensions of energy citizenship and how energy citizenship affects the clean-energy transition process across Europe. Representing six different countries (Austria, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Norway and Turkey) the contributors each present cutting-edge scientific research activities that exemplify developments toward achieving energy citizenship and reflect on the overlaps and synergies with environmental citizenship.

**Keywords:** energy citizenship; environmental citizenship; energy transition
