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RENOVERTY fosters energy efficiency building upgrades in rural energy-poor households located within Central Eastern, South Eastern and Southern European countries by establishing the methodological and practical framework to build renovation roadmaps for vulnerable rural districts in a financially viable and socially just manner.

Rural residents are facing three main energy poverty challenges:

  • Building stock and infrastructure issues.
  • Socio-economic inequality.
  • Limited public participation and representation in labour market.

To address these challenges, RENOVERTY aims to:

  • Promote the renovation of rural vulnerable districts and increase energy efficiency in 17 vulnerable rural areas in 7 regions by providing Renovation Energy Efficiency Roadmaps (REERs) according to the characteristics of the household and regions, with the collaboration of 12 Local Action Groups (LAGs).
  • Provide comprehensive REERs according to the different geographical and social contexts, to scale results and to guide public actors to renovate rural vulnerable districts after the project ends.
  • Empower all actors in rural areas in becoming involved in the process of renovating vulnerable districts/buildings by identifying barriers and co-designing activities with the collaboration of private and public sectors.
  • Incorporate security, comfort, and improved accessibility in the roadmaps to further improve the quality of life of vulnerable populations.

Some concrete KPIs of the project include:

  1. 17 REERs in seven pilots located in Sveta Nedelja (Croatia), Tartu (Estonia), Bükk-Mak & Somló-Marcalmente-Bakonyalja Leader (Hungary), Zasavje (Slovenia), Parma (Italy), Coimbra (Portugal), and Osona (Spain).
  2. Primary Energy Savings of 5.39 GWh/year.
  3. Cumulative investments in sustainable energy triggered by project’s end amounting to 1,003,875 euro .
  4. 115 stakeholders trained by end of project.
  5. 1500 stakeholders reached by end of project.

 

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This page was last updated on 30 October 2023. For the most updated information about the project, please visit the project page at the EC Funding and Portal website and the website of the project.

Stakeholders

Coordinators

[LEAD PARTNER] INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY STICHTING (IEECP)

International and Independent Research Foundation (NL)

UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER (UPRC)

FOCUS DRUSTVO ZA SONARAVEN RAZVOJ (FOCUS)

ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE LEADER POURLE DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL (ELARD)

REGIONALNA ENERGETSKA AGENCIJA SJEVEROZAPADNE HRVATSKE (REGEA)

CLIMATE ALLIANCE - KLIMA-BUENDNIS - ALIANZA DEL CLIMA e.V (CA)

ASOCIACION ECOSERVEIS (ECOSERVEIS)

MITTETULUNDUSUHING TARTU REGIOONI ENERGIAAGENTUUR (TREA)

REFLEX KORNYEZETVEDO EGYESULET (REFLEX)

AISFOR SRL

INSTITUTO DE SISTEMAS E ROBOTICA-ASSOCIACAO (ISR)