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LIFE & Horizon 2020 projects on energy poverty

Under the Horizon 2020 & LIFE programmes, the EC's European Climate, Infrastructure & Environment Executive Agency assists stakeholders to deliver the European Green Deal. The projects below deliver innovative solutions to combat energy poverty.

Addressing local energy poverty through the creation of energy renovation offices
Project locations
Spain, Croatia, Bulgaria, Latvia
Project period
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Enhancing Scientific Capacity for Energy Poverty
Project locations
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Project period
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Prototypes for addressing the housing-energy-nexus
Project locations
Bulgaria, Estonia, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom
Project period
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CLEAR-HP aims to facilitate consumers’ access to heat pumps products by accompanying consumers throughout the whole purchasing journey, and by addressing financial and regulatory barriers.
Project locations
Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain
Project period
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ComActivate responds to growing levels of energy poverty across the EU, especially in the CEE region, by addressing the poor energy efficiency of buildings as a major driver of energy poverty, and as a driver of climate change; 75% of the building stock in the EU is inefficient with buildings responsible for 36% of GHG emissions.
Project locations
Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria
Project period
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Building intErventions in vulNerable Districts against Energy poveRty
Project locations
Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Romania
Project period
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The project to support progress toward scale up of deep energy retrofit in the vulnerable district to fight energy poverty..
Project locations
France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands
Project period
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Home Renovation Roadmaps to Address Energy Poverty in Vulnerable Rural Districts
Project locations
Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Project period
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Deep REnovation roadmaps to decrease households VulnERability To Energy poveRty
Project locations
Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Portugal
Project period
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The project aims to accelerate the roll-out of certified green homes across Europe – including the development and adoption of over €100bn worth of green mortgages, loans and development finance
Project locations
Romania, Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Slovakia
Project period
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JUSTEM works with regional authorities and citizens in five pilot regions to assess energy poverty in coal regions in transition, build regional capacity about energy and develop plans to alleviate energy.
Project locations
Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Spain
Project period
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Through the WELLBASED project, a team of city practitioners and researchers wants to change the lives of Hans, Maica and so many others.
Project locations
United Kingdom, Latvia, Spain, Türkiye, Netherlands, Hungary, North Macedonia
Project period
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DoppelPlus therefore relies on easy-to-implement behavioural changes that improves people´s quality of life and enable them to make a contribution to society.
Project locations
Austria
Project period
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