Since the EU Green New Deal had defined a roadmap for EU Member States to ensure the achievement of long-term energy transition targets, the module combines fields of a legal disciplines based on EU and Italian national laws and administrative procedures (environment, energy, and circularity) with social sciences. All of them are essential to focus on the latest regulatory novelties that are impacting the Energy Communities and deal with issues as the energy transition, renewable energy sources, energy storage systems (BEES), energy independence and energy poverty.
As of today, the Italian legislative framework still appears fragmented and is affected by the lack of clear rules on this point: therefore, the Module aims to provide students with the latest regulatory novelties that are impacting the Energy Communities (see Decree No. 414 of 7 December 2023), because of the ongoing reforms are going to have an impact on administrative activity too.
For all these reasons, major energy and social challenges have become central in all sides of society.
The programme is expected to have a great impact because it will insert a new teaching dedicated to energy administrative law opening at the same time a new field of research. The methodology applied for the course and seminars, that combines the theoretical foundation of the subject with the practical approach stimulated by some members of the staff, will make the practical aspect of the subjects treated as important as the theoretical plan, so that the students will get a full and balanced knowledge of EU Energy and Environmental law.