On 6-8 September 2023, a conference titled “Energy, Environment and Societies in Crises” was held by the Energy & Society Network of the European Sociological Association at the University of Trento, Italy. The Research Center was represented by Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska who presented a paper co-authored with Marek Jaskólski and Rafał Szymanowski titled “Transition imaginaries: the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland“.