Warming Homes with Knowledge

The Znanjem do toplog doma (Warming homes with knowledge) had two objectives:

• Capacity Development for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Sisak-Moslavina County for energy advise.
• Establishing cooperation between CSOs and local governments to tackle energy poverty.

With a budget between 100.000 and 1M€, the project visited 80 energy-poor households in cooperation with the Youth Association “New World” Luščani and the City of Petrinja. The volunteers implemented free or cheap energy efficiency measures, installed the equipment and gave advice the people they visited. They also conducted a semi-structured evaluation of 15 households in order to check how useful and cost-efficient the measures were. During the second round of visits to energy-poor households our volunteers installed LED lightbulbs, gaskets for windows and doors, reflective foils for radiators and aerators to help people save energy and improve their housing conditions. During the three multisectoral meetings about energy poverty in the Sisak-Moslavina County, they developed a set of recommendations and proposed their integration into the social and energy policies of different Croatian counties Energy advice is now included as a social service, on a national level.

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  Countries impacted:
  

  Croatia
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  Geographical scale:
  

  Regional and Local
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  Energy poverty phase:
  

  Implementation
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  Intervention type:
  

  Consumer Advice, protection and empowerment

  Transparency and information sharing
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  Type of funding:
  

  European funds from European Social Fund; National funds from the Office for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Government of the Republic of Croatia
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  Website:
  Case website
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