Behave 2025

BEHAVE 2025 is the 8th edition of the biannual European Energy Network event focusing on the application of behavioural insights in energy efficiency and climate mitigation. This year's edition is organised by ADEME, French Agency for Ecological Transition, on 11-12 December 2025 in Paris, France.

Organising Commitee

Irina Dupouey
 

Chair of the Organising Committee Behave 25 and Head of Unit
ADEME - French Agency for Ecological Transition

 

Rebecca van Leeuwen
 

Co-Chair IOC Behave 2025
Netherlands Enterprise Agency / RVO

Adrianna Threspsiadi

Programme Manager
Energy Saving Trust, UK

Charles Buttigieg

Chief Policy Officer (Stakeholder Support)

EWA - Energy and Water Agency, Malta

Luís Silva

Head of Cooperation & Institutional Affairs

ADENE - Portuguese Energy Agency

Agniete Melnikaitien

Energy Efficiency Analyst

LEA - Lithuanian Energy Agency

Hannah Julienne

Programme Manager – Behavioural Economics
ASEAI - Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Mariagiovanna Gaglione

Senior Researcher

ENEA - Italian Energy Efficiency Agency

Samuel Thomas

Head of Secretariat

User-Centred Energy Systems (IEA Users TCP)

Scientific Commitee

Nathalie Ortar

Scientific Committee President and Research Director, French Transport
Urban Planning and Economics Laboratory

Charlotte Halpern

Senior researcher with tenure
Sciences Po Paris, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE),
CNRS and Laboratory for interdisciplinary evaluation of public policies (LIEPP), Paris, France

Kerstin Schilcher

Senior Expert for Consumer Behaviour

Austrian Energy Agency

Paolo Bertoldi

Senior Expert
European Commission

Kaisa Matschoss

Adjunct professor, Senior researcher

University of Helsinki, Centre for Consumer Society Research

Babette Never

Senior researcher Green Economy
DIE (German Development Institute)

Elena Taxeri

Physicist | Project manager at the Division for Energy Policy and Planning
CRES Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving

Helen Theodoropoulou

Emeritus Professor of Agricultural and Home Economics

Harokopio University

Mariagiovanna Gaglione

Senior Researcher

ENEA - Italian Energy Efficiency Agency

Dr. Ing. Simon P. Borg

Associate Professor
University of Malta

Goda Perlaviciute

Professor Public acceptability of sustainable transitions

University of Groningen

Sea Rotmann

Task Leader of Hard-to-Reach Energy Task by Users

IEA (NZ)

Luís Silva

Head of Cooperation and Institutional Affairs Department
AADENE

Marta Lopes

Professor
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC-ESAC), INESC Coimbra

Dr Lory Barile

Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics,

University of Warwick

Luis Mundaca

Professor

International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden

Ciaran Lavin

Senior Behavioural Scientist

Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)

Lisa Ryan

Professor in Energy Economics
University College Dublin

Michel Handgraaf

Senior Behavioral Advisor, Behavioral Team
Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)

Louiza Papamikrouli

Project Adviser
European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)