Dalla teoria alla pratica della cittadinanza energetica: il Manifesto e i Contratti di Cittadinanza Energetica come dispositivi trasformativi.

This chapter explores the concept of the energy citizenship contract as an in-novative governance tool to support a more just and participatory energy transi-tion. Starting from the environmental and social challenges posed by the fossilfuel-based development model, it argues for the need to rethink the relationship between society, energy, and the environment through new institutional and par-ticipatory mechanisms. The first section introduces the idea that the energy tran-sition is not only a technical matter but a deeply social and political transfor- ma-tion, requiring integrated approaches to environmental and social justice. The se-cond section revisits the notion of the social contract in light of current ecolog-ical and democratic crises, drawing on eco-social, feminist, and post-colonial per-spectives. The third section focuses on the emergence of energy citizenship as a framework for new forms of engagement, highlighting both its transformative po-tential and its limitations.The final section presents the proposal of the Energy Citizenship Contracts (ECC), developed within the H2020 GRETA project, and introduces the Manifesto for Energy Citizenship as a complementary tool. Co-produced with project part-ners and validated through pilot cases, the Manifesto provides a sharedframework for guiding local transitions and promoting justice, participation, and responsi-bility. The chapter concludes by discussing how this approach supports the devel-opment of inclusive and context-sensitive models of energy governance, in linewith European climate goals and participatory strategies such as the Climate City Contracts.