WELLBASED - Improving health, wellbeing and equality by evidenced-based urban policies for tackling energy poverty

The WELLBASED project objectives are to design, implement and evaluate a comprehensive urban programme to significantly reduce energy poverty and its effects on the citizens health and wellbeing, built on evidence-based approaches in six pilot cities that represent not only different urban realities but also a diverse range of welfare and healthcare models.

The WELLBASED team will develop, test and evaluate new innovative health-focused approaches to alleviate energy poverty amongst the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, while promoting energy-efficient behaviours and reducing energy demand in those households. The measures will address this problem both from an individual, i.e. behavioural and a socio-political perspective, i.e. through regulations and urban planning.

With a budget of over 1 million €, the activities carried out by the six pilot cities will include:

• Socio-health energy audits.
• Home improvement measures.
• Empowerment activities for energy poor households.
• Bill support.
• Digitally supported behavioural change.
• Information and awareness-raising campaigns.

These activities will take place against the background of six different health care systems and local assistance models, i.e. the Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic as well as Eastern models.

It addresses the topics of: health, indoor comfort (thermal comfort, housing quality), information and awareness, insulation, quality of dwelling, energy access and consumption, energy audits, energy efficiency, smart meters, energy prices, social support and vulnerable consumers.

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  Countries impacted:
  

  Spain

  United Kingdom

  Latvia

  Netherlands

  Turkey

  North Macedonia

  Hungary
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  Geographical scale:
  

  Regional and Local
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  Energy poverty phase:
  

  Planning

  Implementation
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  Intervention type:
  

  Consumer Advice, protection and empowerment

  Data collection

  Policy Support
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  Professionals involved:
  

  Member of a local/national authority

  Researcher

  Social worker

  Student
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  Type of funding:
  

  European funds from the H2020 programme of the European Union
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  Website:
  Case website
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