Projects

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ENPOWER

ENPOWER strives to transform traditional passive energy consumers into active energy citizens enabling them to take full control on their energy usage. The project engages with all the principal actors of the energy value chain, allowing them to achieve energy savings, increase their energy efficien...

Crete Valley

Co-funded by the European Union, CRETE VALLEY is a project that will transform the Greek island of Crete into a secure, sustainable, and decentralised energy system. To accelerate a just energy transition, CRETE VALLEY will create a Renewable Energy Valley ‘Living Lab’ (REV-Lab), which will enab...

EUCF

European City Facility

Municipalities, local authorities, and local public entities are the driver of the European sustainable energy transition. With tremendous potential to build comprehensive sustainable investment programmes, they also play a key role in pooling smaller projects into larger investment portfolios and i...

AEGIR

DigitAl and physical incrEmental renovation packaGes/systems enhancing envIronmental and energetic behaviour and use of Resources

Responding to the urgent need for a Renovation Wave to future-proof Europe's buildings, the AEGIR project develops solutions to make renovations quicker, faster and less disruptive. To this end, project partners are pioneering industrialised and modular systems as well as digital tools. Amongst othe...

UTMC

Urban Transitions Mission Centre

The Urban Transitions Mission Centre (UTMC) is a global platform that promotes urban sustainability and facilitates climate-neutral transitions. The UTMC helps cities to bridge knowledge and capacity gaps by linking cities with policy, implementation, and funding solutions via exchanges that transce...

EC2

Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean Energy Transition

The active involvement and empowerment of the people in the energy sector is crucial to the transition to a clean energy society. Therefore, EC2 seeks to scale-up energy citizenship and energy-communities. The project provides evidence-based practical guidance to strengthen energy citizenship and th...

Sun4All

Energy communities for a fair energy transition in Europe

Through the Sun4All project approach, four European ‘pilot cities’ aim at facilitating access to renewable energy generation (and its economic and environmental benefits) for vulnerable households, which suffer from energy poverty and which otherwise would not have the capacity of invest...

Act!onHeat

Thermal decarbonisation strategies for urban transitions

The Act!onHeat project will provide practical support to local energy planners to translate their heating and cooling strategies into action. The project will offer planners practical guidance and tools to strategically plan the decarbonisation of their local heating and cooling sector and initiate ...

SESA

Smart Energy Solutions for Africa

SESA is a collaborative project between the European Union and nine African countries that aims at providing energy access technologies and business models that are easily replicable and generate local opportunities for economic development and social cohesion in Africa, also using European know-how...

Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

The Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine aims to help countries and regions to move away from coal towards a carbon-neutral economy, while ensuring that this transition is just. It fosters dialogue across regions and between stakeholders through knowledge-shar...

ePlanet

European Public Local Authorities’ Network for driving the Energy Transition

One of the main challenges to achieve the Energy Transition objectives is to improve the coordination between local authorities and regional governments in order to optimise the decision-making process, coherence and consistency of the implementation of energy transition measures in towns and cities...

DREEM

Designing useR centric E-kickscooters & business models for Enhancing interModality

The use of different and optimally combined transport modes in a seamless way is one of the key challenges to achieve greater sustainability in smart cities transport systems.
Each mode of transport has its own advantages and satisfies different mobility purposes and needs. The core of new electrif...

Save the Homes

One-Stop Shops as Citizens' Hubs to support the decision making process for integrated renovations.

MICAT

Multiple Impacts Calculation Tool

MICAT – Multiple Impacts Calculation Tool aims to develop a comprehensive approach and user-friendly online tool to estimate the multiple impacts or multiple benefits of energy efficiency measures at three governance levels: EU, national, and local/regional.

CINTRAN

Carbon Intensive Regions in Transition - Unravelling the Challenges of Structural Change

The CINTRAN project studies the complex patterns and dynamics of structural change in those carbon-intensive regions across Europe.

POWERPOOR

Empowering Energy Poor Citizens through Joint Energy Initiatives

Energy poverty represents a serious challenge today. As a result, supporting programmes and alternative financial initiatives have emerged as a viable means to mitigate its effects on energy-poor citizens.
The EU-funded POWERPOOR project will develop support programmes/schemes for energy-poor citiz...

DECIDE

Developing Energy Communities through Informative anD collEctive actions

The focus of the project is to gain a better understanding in how to set up and roll out energy communities and energy efficiency services. The project builds on the knowledge and work within the EU Bridge initiative, ETIP SNET and others. In order to deliver this project successfully, the consortiu...

EXCESS

FlEXible user-CEntric Energy poSitive houseS

The EXCESS project builds on nearly-zero energy multi-storey building residential concepts of the four main EU climate zones towards fleXible Energy user-CEntric poSitive houseS.

Initiative for coal regions in transition

Assisting coal-intensive regions in preparing, developing and implementing just transitions to low-carbon economies.

SONNET

Social Innovation in Energy Transitions

Co-creating a rich understanding of the diversity, processes, contributions, success and future potential of social innovation in the energy sector.

TripleA-reno

Attractive, Acceptable and Affordable deep Renovation by a consumers orientated and performance evidence based approach.

The project's aim is to make acceptance and decisions on deep renovation attractive for consumers by clear and meaningful information and communication on proven impact on energy, indoor environmental quality and personal health in practice.

EVERYWH2ERE

EVERYWH2ERE is a five-years “demonstration to market” project aiming to prove FC equipped gensets’ reliability via a robust and EU widespread demonstration campaign.

Handshake

Enabling the transferability of cycling innovations and assessment of its implications

Handshake supports the effective uptake of the integrated cycling solutions successfully developed by Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Munich.

C-Track 50

Putting regions on track for carbon neutrality by 2050

The project's aim is to mobilise and guide public authorities at all levels in defining long-term energy policy priorities and support local and regional authorities in developing, financing and implementing sustainable Energy and Climate Policy Plans.

KeepWarm

Improving the performance of district heating systems in Central and Eastern Europe

The KeepWarm project aims at accelerating cost-effective investments in the modernisation of District Heating Systems in Central and Eastern Europe, including the promotion of switching to less-polluting energy sources like renewables.

SMARTEES

Social and Market Approaches to Realizing Transition to Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Decarbonising Europe can only succeed if consumers and citizens are recognised as actors with diverse needs and interests. This is the starting assumption of the SMARTEES project. By analysing five case study clusters across Europe, the project will improve our understanding of the role of citizens ...

PROSEU

Prosumers for the Energy Union: mainstreaming active participation of citizens in the energy transition

The aim of the project is to gain knowledge about and enable the mainstreaming of the Prosumer phenomenon into the European Energy Union.

GreenCharge

GreenCharge

GreenCharge will empower cities and municipalities to make the transition to zero emission/sustainable mobility with innovative business models, technologies and guidelines for cost efficient and successful deployment and operation of charging infrastructure for EVs.

Compete4SECAP

The Compete4SECAP project aims at helping local authorities put their existing Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) into action.

STARS

Shared mobility opportunities and challenges for european cities

The goal is to close the gap between the potential benefits of shared vehicle services and their real impacts in terms of congestion mitigation, environmental footprints and social inclusion.

WinWind

WinWind - Winning social acceptance for wind energy

The overall objective of WinWind is to enhance the socially inclusive and environmentally sound market uptake of wind energy by increasing its social acceptance in 'wind energy scarce regions' (WESR) .

HRE

Heat Roadmap Europe

Heat Roadmap Europe (HRE) is a Horizon 2020 financed programme bringing together 24 partners (universities, research institutions, industry and city associations and a variety of relevant businesses) to map and model the heating and cooling energy systems of the 14 largest users of heat in the EU. T...

THERMOS

Thermal Energy Resource Modelling and Optimisation System

THERMOS is an EU Horizon 2020 funded research project which will provide advanced energy system data and models in a user-friendly open-source application to make heat network planning faster, more efficient, and more cost effective.

CEPPI

Coordinated energy-related PPIs actions for cities

CEPPI aims to build capacity in cities to achieve more sustainable energy solutions through a pro-innovation procurement approach. The objective is to save at least 33GWh/year and develop the capacity of public authorities.

GPP 2020

GPP 2020 - Mainstreaming low-carbon procurement

GPP 2020 aimed to mainstream low-carbon procurement across Europe in support of the EU’s goals to achieve a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% increase in the share of renewable energy and a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020.

To this end, GPP 2020 implemented more than 100...

Realising DReAMS

Realising Development of Resources and access to Municipal Services

Both environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are urgent global challenges that are too often treated separately. With pressing development needs in Least Developed Countries, and with a growing population, approaches to such global challenges require rethinking. But when new approaches are...

SMART SPP

Innovation through Sustainable Procurement

SMART SPP – innovation through sustainable procurement promoted the introduction of new, innovative low carbon emission technologies and integrated solutions onto the European market by the pre-procurement phase of public tenders. Read about the guidance, tools and case studies produced here.

European Climate Conference 2008

Climate Protection and Renewable Energy: Medium and Small Communities Facing the Challenge

The European Climate Conference in April 2008 in Rovigo, Italy, built on the results of the conference ‘A future with Zero CO2 Emissions’ held in Stockholm in 2006. Rovigo 2008 focused on practical climate protection planning and actions in European communities, in particular those start...

Procura+

Procura+ European Sustainable Procurement Network

Initiated and co-ordinated by ICLEI, Procura+ is a network of European public authorities and regions that connect, exchange and act on sustainable and innovation procurement.