This year’s International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) in Barcelona is not just a gathering of experts and professionals in a certain industry, like there are many conferences for all types of professionals. No, instead, the ISHF is a statement. We gather because we have a common goal.

After Valencia, the NRG2Peers project that wants to make energy communities set-up possible for all travelled to Perugia in Italy.

Global conversations about housing systems often happen in English. However, for many of us, the English language is not our mother tongue. At the same time, we sometimes draw conclusions about a term based on our cultural background. A group of international housing researchers from TU Delft University in the Netherlands have created an online vocabulary to ensure that everybody is on the same page.