Mapping cross-national conceptions of essential energy to advance housing energy justice - READ ME

The project entailed qualitative research from focus groups and urban tours. The study leveraged the cross-national collaboration of the WELLBASED project. WELLBASED was a European Union Horizon 2020 project that was trialling energy poverty interventions between 2021 and 2025 across six cities: Leeds (UK), Valencia (Spain), Heerlen (Netherlands), Edirne (Turkey), Obuda (Hungary) and Jelgava (Latvia). The study captured and compared the WELLBASED professionals’ perceptions of essential energy.This dataset contains transcripts of focus groups, photos of urban tours in five of the six cities, and varied versions of a Comic that was produced as part of this project.