We are happy to announce the launch of a series of activities around distributed energy production, celebrating the gathering of designers, makers, academics, and local communities focused on energy alternatives. The activities will take place at the rural makerspace Tzoumakers, situated in a small mountainous village called Kalentzi (NW Greece).

Contents
1. Introduction and background
2. Invitation to apply
3. Selection criteria and conditions
4. Procedure and timeline

1. Introduction and background
The P2P Lab is a not-for-profit organisation based in Ioannina, Greece. It is dedicated to researching peer-to-peer dynamics in technology, society, and the economy. The P2P Lab works to develop and maintain a global knowledge commons, encompassing a global community of researchers and activists.
Currently, the Lab aims to create awareness and promote an emerging collaborative production model in energy based on the conjunction of commons-based peer production with desktop manufacturing. In the Epirus region (northwestern Greece), pristine mountainous areas are threatened by proposed oil/gas drilling activities and poorly planned massive renewable projects. Local communities protest and strive to build an alternative way out. Such communities demand effective measures to prevent climate change by transitioning to a zero-carbon economy.
In an attempt to overcome energy issues and the destruction of mountains, plains, rivers, and seas, the Lab will attempt to bring such communities together and open up discussions on how energy is produced and consumed in society today. Also, it will work towards the replication, sharing, and improvement of open-source solutions (including the construction of a wind turbine), bringing energy into focus.
To facilitate interaction and create feedback loops among makers, designers, and local communities through open source web tools, the P2P Lab is organising a series of events in Ioannina (NW Greece), where academics, practitioners, makers, and designers will come together, discuss, produce solutions for distributed energy production as well as test them locally at Tzoumakers.
The main aim of the proposed activities is to familiarise local communities with open-source technologies developed globally and, ideally, connect hubs (e.g. Fab Labs) that provide technical infrastructures for development. As a result, a network of open-source software/hardware communities around distributed energy production could be created that overcome barriers through knowledge diffusion and collaborate for their mutual benefit.

2. Invitation to apply
The P2P Lab is looking for designers, makers, practitioners, and academics from around the globe to contribute to our activities in Kaletzi (Ioannina). Selected participants will be invited to offer their insights and expertise (including presentations, theoretical and practical knowledge, technological solutions, etc) on distributed energy production systems and adaptations to the local context, while keeping local biophysical conditions in mind.
Travel, accommodation, and per diems of the grantees will be covered by the P2P Lab.

3. Selection criteria and conditions
Participants will be selected based on clearly defined criteria focusing on diversity, inclusion, sustainability, gender equality, reproducibility (including documentation), and adaptability of open-source energy-related solutions to the local context.

4. Procedure and timeline
Please fill in the application form via this link to apply for this call.
The deadline is Sunday, 31 July 2022, 22:00 CET. The decision will be announced on the P2P Lab’s Facebook page on Friday, 5 August 2022.
The events will occur from late August until late November 2022. The exact dates will be determined in consultation with the selected participants.
For queries, you may contact us at [email protected].

These activities are organised by the P2P Lab in the context of the Distributed Design project with the support of the Cosmolocalism project.