Approved EnercitEE sub-projects after the 2nd Call for Proposals

E-FoxES – Energy saving Foxes in European Schools

Lead Sub-Project Participant:
Bautzen Innovation Center (Saxony)

Sub-Project Participants:
Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden
(Smaland (Kalmar and Kronoberg)/Blekinge),
Prioriterre (Haute-Savoie)

Overall budget:    EUR 216.310,00

The proposal for E-FoxES was submitted under the sub-project priority 2 ‘Awareness raising policies (EE competitions and games)’.

E-Foxes aims to contribute to the change in behaviour of the citizens in the involved EnercitEE regions concerning energy consumption. First of all, pupils will be addressed to think about energy saving and Energy Efficiency. For that purpose, energy saving contests between schools will be established by the sub-project partners. These contests will follow a common developed conception. The project partners will test the common conception in pilot projects, exchange their experiences and offer the developed and tested concept to further interested municipalities and regions. E-Foxes will investigate the most important success factors for energy saving contests amongst pupils in European towns and regions. A summary will present the results and experiences and give recommendations for future contests. Policy makers, jury members and other stakeholders will be invited to the public award ceremony. In this way, a high number of citizens besides the pupils involved will be stimulated to think about a new lifestyle based on a reduced personal carbon footprint.

ActEE – Actions and communication Tools about Energy Efficiency 

Lead Sub-Project Participant:
Mountain Riders (Haute-Savoie)

Sub-Project Participants:
DAPT – Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
(Emilia-Romagna),
Regional Development Agency “ARLEG” S.A. (Lower Silesia)

Overall budget:    EUR 129.096,00

The proposal for ActEE was submitted under the sub-project priority 4 ‘Promotion & exchange of citizens' good practice examples on EE’.

ActEE aims at detecting and spreading good practices in the field of communication tools which will allow the development of long-lasting, effective and sustainable tools. The benchmarking of existing tools combined with partners’ experiences allow ActEE to develop a communication tools package with lower costs and great impact. The project's actions involve a study on regional good practices on Energy Efficiency communication, exchange of these practices among the partners and experimentation of the tools detected in the countries involved. The project is expected to reach citizens in the countries involved, changing their behaviours and consumption attitude in an appreciable way. ActEE will involve citizens, opinion leaders, decision makers, who are going to be reached through fairs, events and new communication tools, such as marketing campaigns, videos and the media. Our aim is to combine a funny, positive attitude and innovative communication tools with a scientific approach and content.

GRACE – Grants and other incentives for cost and energy efficiency

Lead Sub-Project Participant:
Bautzen Innovation Center (Saxony)

Sub-Project Participants:
Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+Ltd. (Lower Silesia),
Energy and Sustainable Development Agency of Modena (AESS),
(Emilia-Romagna)

Overall budget:    EUR 129.150,00

The proposal for GRACE was submitted under the sub-project priority 5 ‘Exchange of incentives and grant programmes for citizens’.

The aim of the sub-project GRACE is to analyse costs and the real impact of public and private funding schemes focused on the Energy Efficiency for citizens and communities. On-going programmes will be evaluated in terms of the beneficiaries involved, the satisfaction of the beneficiaries, the energy saved and the carbon dioxide emissions reduced. The sub-project partners will promote successful examples of local and private initiatives, e.g. promising projects of communities for their citizens. Results from pilot projects in the partner regions concerning new financial instruments, including revolving funds and tax-related measures, will be analysed in detail. Regional authorities that are responsible for incentives and grants for citizens will be directly involved in the project. At the end of the project, suggestions on how to further develop existing programmes or to establish new funding schemes will be formulated.

EEMTE – Energy Efficiency in Municipality – Training and Exchange of experience

Lead Sub-Project Participant:
The Commune of Jelcz-Laskowice (Lower Silesia)

Sub-Project Participants:
The City of Leipzig (Saxony),
Municipality of Cluses (Haute-Savoie),
Municipality of Oskarshamn
(Smaland (Kalmar and Kronoberg)/Blekinge,
Prioriterre (Haute-Savoie)

Overall budget:    EUR 231.750,00

The proposal for EEMTE was submitted under the sub-project priority 7 ‘EE training instruments for public authorities' staff & knowledge exchange’.

EEMTE’s objective is to jointly develop information and training materials, as well as training instruments. Training courses combined with presentations and demonstrations will be organised to enable an integrated approach to solving problems associated with obtaining improvement in Energy Efficiency, to familiarize government officials and employees of public institutions with the legal regulations in force, to exchange experiences and good practices. The methodology and training instruments developed within the project will be promoted and made available to local stakeholders (public authorities of different levels). Furthermore, EEMTE partners will set up an overview on existing training concepts and, from this starting point, provide recommendations for good training concepts. Each partner will adjust these general recommendations to the needs and specific aspects in the regions.

FIPREC – Financing instruments, by Potential and Requirements of Energy saving Contracting

Lead Sub-Project Participant:
CISA scarl – Innovation Center Environmental Sustainability
(Emilia-Romagna)

Sub-Project Participants:
Saxon Energy Agency – SAENA GmbH (Saxony),
Commune of Olawa (Lower Silesia)

Overall budget:    EUR 129.616,00

The proposal for FIPREC was submitted under the sub-project priority 8 ‘Financing instruments as policies for local authorities’.

The overall objective is to contribute to the solution of the applicative problems in public-private partnership and project financing, which have arisen in the energy sector interventions, especially where the financial return requires a long time, whilst Energy Efficiency measures in end-use rarely have financial products that do not require property guarantees or sureties. Within FIPREC, energy-saving measures, which can be easily implemented in and carried out by local authorities, in buildings and technical facilities should be developed, and, at the same time, financial resources should be conserved. In addition to the reduction of the annual energy costs, possibilities for communities and local decision-makers are found to be able to perform the required renovations of technical equipment, without the use of equity capital. The target groups are local decision-makers, communities and businesses. FIPREC will play a leading role in the area of the ESC. Other regions can learn from the results and experiences. They can get an impulse to develop such ESC models.