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Report on networking activities with other projects in ASA region
30.08.2018 <Version 1.0>
Author Giovanni Vicentini
Silvio De Nigris
Ellen Esser
Organization LP – REGPIE
PP08 – EWO
PEACE_Alps
Pooling Energy Action Plans and Enhancing their implementation in the Alps
Project reference No. AS81
Priority 2 – Low Carbon
Project duration: 16.12.2015 – 15.12.2018
This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Alpine Space program
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Short Description
This document describes the networking activities with other project in the ASA region,
working of the same topic of the PEACE_Alps project.
Document Details
Project PEACE_Alps
Pooling Energy Action Plans and Enhancing their implementation
Action Network with other projects in ASA
Deliverable D.6.3.1
Due date 30 08 2018
Delivery date 30 08 2018
Dissemination Intern
Origin
LP REGPIE
PP08 EWO
Author REGPIE
EWO
Version Date Author Organization Description
V1.0 30.08.2018 Silvio De Nigris /Giovanni Vicentini
Ellen Esser
LP
EWO
Report
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Table of Contents
1. Scope and purpose ...................................................................................................... 4
2. The networking projects .............................................................................................. 4
3. The networking activities ............................................................................................. 6
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1. Scope and purpose
In order to establish contacts with similar projects working on the same topics in ASA and
with the objective of exchanging experiences and best practices, the PEACE_Alps project
has built up an informal network. The main scope was to explore possible forms of
cooperation.
Once Action Plans are drafted it’s often evident that LAs are in most cases too small to make
concrete actions being effective and feasible. Such lesson is learnt in several projects run by
PPs. Centralized solutions are, thus, an answer, but even in this case it’s important to build
on experiences gained in other projects.
2. The networking projects
The PEACE_Alps project established contacts and carried out activities with the following EU
projects active in the ASA region.
Project acronym and web-link Short description
GRETA
www.alpine-
space.eu/projects/greta/
The project aims at demonstrating the potential of Near-Surface
Geothermal Energy in the Alpine Space, and to share its
knowledge to foster the integration of this technology into future
energy plans in the area, at different administrative levels.
STEPPING
https://stepping.interreg-med.eu/
STEPPING general objective is to increase the adoption of EPC
investment schemes in the elaboration of Energy Efficiency plans
for public buildings in the MED area, raising the knowledge of
MED institutions in designing, implementation and managing of
energy efficiency plans for public buildings.
GO APPLY
www.alpine-
space.eu/projects/goapply/
The project enables public & non-governmental actors to
increase their adaptation governance capacities and to improve
and re-define their approaches: portfolio of multilevel governance
approaches, good practices & innovations; pathways & options
for mainstreaming adaptation; transferable stakeholder
interaction formats; strengthened transnational cooperation
networks & closer alignment of national & macro-regional
adaptation efforts (EUSALP).
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Project acronym and web-link Short description
THE 4BEES
www.alpine-
space.eu/projects/thefourbees/
THE4BEES focuses on the behavioral changes of users in public
buildings needed to achieve reduction of energy consumption.
Such changes will be originated by the use of innovative ICT
applications developed by a transnational ecosystem. Those
applications will be used by the target groups in the
demonstration sites (schools, houses, factories), to encourage
behavioral changes for energy efficiency and carbon footprint
reduction.
CESBA_Alps
www.alpine-
space.eu/projects/cesba-alps/
CESBA Alps aims to improve the sustainability of the Alpine built
environment through the development of the first assessment
tool at territorial scale, which will be contextualized to regional
specificities.
IMEAS
www.alpine-
space.eu/projects/imeas/
The IMEAS multi-disciplinary team aims to develop a consistent
methodology and practical guidance for the creation and
integration of roadmaps based on multi-level approaches to
climate change mitigation, energy innovation potentials,
economic structures and control of energy plans. Experiences
from some areas help to fill gaps in others through a cooperative
and transnational approach capitalizing the heterogeneity of the
Alpine Space, their different cultures, planning principles and
practice with software tools.
DATA4ACTION
http://data4action.eu
The general purpose of Data 4 Action is the establishment of
long-term data exchange models in sustainable energy planning,
through a cooperation between public authorities and energy
data providers.
2020TOGETHER
http://www.provincia.torino.gov.i
t/ambiente/energia/progetti/2020
TOGETHER/
The project 2020TOGETHER, activated thanks to European
funding, under the Programme CIP-IEE Intelligent Energy for
Europe / Mobilizing Local Energy Investments - MLEI, has as its
purpose the implementation of measures to improve energy
efficiency of buildings and public lighting of the municipalities,
through new forms of partnership between public administrations
and private investors.
PREPAIR
www.lifeprepair.eu
PREPAIR (Po Regions Engaged to Policies of AIR) aims at
implementing the measures foreseen in the regional plans and in
the Po Valley agreement at a larger scale so to strengthen the
sustainability and durability of results: the geographical coverage
of the IP is the Po Valley with the regions and cities that mainly
influence air quality in the basin. The IP actions are also
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Project acronym and web-link Short description
extended to Slovenia in order to assess and reduce pollutants
transportation across the Adriatic sea.
FINERPOL
www.interregeurope.eu/finerpol
The FINERPOL project (Financial Instruments for Energy
Renovation POLicies) aims at promoting new policies, or
adapting the existing ones, regarding the financial instruments at
disposal of the public authorities to increase the energy efficiency
and the use of renewable energy sources.
GE-NIUS
http://www.comune.genova.it/co
ntent/progetto-gen-ius
The GENIUS project aims at refurbishing approximately 250
public buildings and over 18,000 lampposts and at realizing
district heating systems and domotics systems in buildings. This
project is cofinanced by the ELENA programme and is realized in
the Metropolitan City of Genoa.
PROSPER
http://www.eib.org/attachments/
documents/elena_prosper_facts
heet_en.pdf
The project covers measures for energy efficiency in public
buildings owned by the Province of Savona and by the
municipalities (~ 150 buildings), the optimization of public lighting
systems (in 19 municipalities) and the installation of RE such as
biomass (for 14 greenhouse farmers and in several public
buildings), minihydropower plants and PV (public buildings).
ENERSHIFT
https://enershift.eu/progetto/
EnerSHIFT is aimed to the energy renovation of public housing in
Liguria promoting and applying innovative financing models. In
line with the Regional Environmental Energy Plan, EnerSHIFT
seeks to reduce energy consumption, improve tenants’ quality of
life and boost the local economy.
GuarantEE
https://guarantee-project.eu/
Within guarantEE, 14 experienced partners develop innovative
business and financing models for performance-based ESCO
projects.
SUPPORT
https://www.interregeurope.eu/s
upport/
SUPPORT tackles the difficulties encountered by many cities and
towns of partner regions in the implementation of sustainable
energy policies.
3. The networking activities
The PEACE_Alps project partners have carried out several networking activities within the
project lifespan. The activities can be clustered in three categories:
Participation to conferences or workshops organized by the PP or by other projects;
Organization of mutual learning activities;
Collaboration in the technical development of the project activities.
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Networking project Project partner
involved
Type of activity
GRETA
Climate Alliance
REG-PIE
AURAEE
Participation to the mid-term and the
final conferences
STEPPING BSC
REG-PIE
Joint workshop in a public event
Co-organization of 5 technical
workshops for Municipalities
GO APPLY EZA! Bilateral exchange on adaptation to
climate change
THE 4BEES REG-PIE Joint Workshop in the European Week
of Regions and Cities
CESBA_Alps
AURAEE
REG-PIE
Climate Alliance
Participation to the CESBA Sprint
Workshop
Joint Meeting
Joint Workshop in the European Week
of Regions and Cities
IMEAS
EZA!
REG-PIE
AURAEE
Technical collaboration for the set-up of
the Stakeholders’ Network Model
Participation to the final conference
DATA4ACTION REG-PIE Source of inspiration for the set-up of a
one stop shop
2020TOGETHER REG-PIE
Source of inspiration for the bundling
approach regarding the refurbishment of
public buildings
PREPAIR REG-PIE Bilateral exchange on energyplanning
FINERPOL REG-PIE
Bilateral exchange on energy
refurbishment of buildings/street lighting
systems
GE-NIUS REG-PIE
Bilateral exchange on energy
refurbishment of buildings/street lighting
systems
PROSPER REG-PIE
Bilateral exchange on energy
refurbishment of buildings/street lighting
systems
ENERSHIFT REG-PIE Bilateral exchange on energy
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Networking project Project partner
involved
Type of activity
refurbishment of buildings/street lighting
systems
guarantee REG-PIE Participation to a workshop
SUPPORT EWO Linking of websites
A knowledge exchange workshop on the integration of shallow geothermal energy in local
energy planning was co-organized by PEACE_Alps and GRETA project and took place at
the International Geothermal Conference on 12.09.2017 in Munich. The workshop raised
awareness for the possibility to integrate shallow geothermal utilizations in local energy
planning strategies in both urban as well as non-
urban areas. During the second part of the
workshop a discussion took place on the
possibilities and challenges of integrating/
considering shallow geothermal use in SEAPs and
other energy planning strategies.
During the GRETA project mid-term conference,
municipal representatives and renewable energy
experts have discussed the opportunities and
challenges of near-surface geothermal energy,
illustrated by best practice examples. The GRETA
project, like PEACE_Alps, supports municipalities
in furthering their energy action plans. Climate
Alliance, in cooperation with the entire GRETA
consortium, invited all interested stakeholders to join this special event. PEACE_Alps was
also invited to the Greta’s final conference that was organized in Lyon on the 7th of
November.
The Piemonte Region, in the framework of PEACE_Alps Alpine Space and STEPPING MED
projects, organized a free workshop addressed to Municipalities and focused on energy
management and Energy Performance Contracts (EPC). In order to support Municipalities in
the activities of accounting and analysis of energy consumption of public utilities, buildings
and street lighting, foreseen in the monitoring phase of SECAPs, the Piemonte Region has
presented the software ENERCLOUD+, created by the Region itself in collaboration with CSI
Piemonte. Moreover, during the workshop the option of public facilities retrofitting by using
the EPC has been illustrated. To facilitate the participation of municipalities of such a large
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territory as Piemonte the workshop has been repeated in four venues. On the 30th of May
2018, in the framework of the Interreg MED STEPPING project, the Piemonte Region,
organized in Torino the conference “Financing Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector”. The
event was also correlated with the Interreg Alpine Space PEACE_Alps project and with the
Energy Day of the EU Sustainable Energy Week. Relevant speakers from EU, Regional
Public Authorities and Academic Institutions took the floor in order to provide their
contributions and share their experiences and good practices related to innovative energy
efficiency investments application, mainly EPC, and to the importance of implementing an
energy management system.
Adaptation to climate change was the focus of the expert workshop held in Kempten in the
Allgäu, in June 2018. Based on practical experiences regarding health management, species
diversity in urban areas, agriculture and flood control, the actual challenges of adaptation
were discussed. The PEACE-Alps and GoApply EU projects provided and shared their point
of view to the topic. According to eza! from
the PEACE_Alps project one of the main
challenges is that the topic of climate
adaptation is often ranking quite low in
priority among municipal decision makers
and politics. Since this experience is not
unique, the situation can only be changed by continuous professional public relation coming
from municipalities and relevant agencies utilizing all sorts of different media according to
specific target groups. GoApply is an Alpine Space project dealing with improvement of
existing governance structures regarding the implementation of adaptation measure and thus
has significant potential of synergies with PEACE_Alps.
The three projects PEACE_Alps, THE4BEES and CESBA_Alps, started a networking
activity in 2016. All the projects were focused on energy aspects and were characterized by
a bottom-up approach; all of them had the
Piemonte Region as project partner.
THE4BEES was working on the involvement of
citizens in order to raise awareness and act on
behavioral patterns changing. The CESBA_Alps
project, on the other hand, was focused on the
development of an integrated energy
sustainability assessment system at territorial scale. During the first meetings the projects
decided to jointly organize the communication activities through the participation to a public
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event. The projects had the chance to be presented during two standing events in October
2017 in the framework of the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels. The
objective of the two events was to highlight the central rule of regions in facing some
important challenges in the coming future as climate change, the need to enhance the use of
renewable energies and to invest more in innovation. Moreover, they represented a great
opportunity for Piemonte Region to disseminate at international level the concepts of the
three projects, also showing the interconnections between them. The events were preceded
by a networking activity. The cooperation highlighted these key points:
a) the networking activity between projects, active on similar thematics, is essential since the
collaboration is clearly better than competition;
b) the bottom-up approach is a plus because it guarantees the identification of the real
territorial needs;
c) the multilevel approach is essential;
d) the horizontal links, to be established, need a clear political commitment, strong
relationships between the project’s members and a common understanding of goals and
priorities. Even though the three projects are operating on different levels of the policy cycle,
they are actually complementary. Sharing methods and results is the right way for a
capitalization of projects management and outcomes.
The 4th CESBA Sprint Workshop in September 2017 was organized by 9 European projects
in collaboration with the Vorarlberg Institute
of Architecture. CESBA focuses on
qualities of the built environment, on
measuring and steering the development
of buildings, neighborhoods, cities or
regions and their processes leading to sustainability. The focus within all working groups was
set on the users and inhabitants of the built environment as well as on a common
understanding within Europe. PEACE_Alps co-moderated the session on “Territorial and
municipal development. Assessment, Planning, Mapping, Monitoring”. Key performance
targets and their indicators for sustainable development for regions and communities were
identified. The enthusiastic exchange showed that there is a high interest in common values
within the European culture. The main organizing project apart from PEACE_Alps has been
CESBA Alps.
On June 2017 the Piemonte Region was invited by the IMEAS project for a first networking
activity. The objective of that event was the engagement of relevant stakeholders and IMEAS
observers to share the IMEAS strategy. The strategy is based on a Multi-Level and Multi-
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Dimensional approach in order to put low-carbon strategies and processes on the top of the
agenda of policy makers both at the local and national level. In March 2018, IMEAS project
selected the Enercloud+ energy management service as a good practice and decided to
analyze the multi-level approach behind it. The Enercloud+ platform is one of the tool that
are used by Piemonte Region in the PEACE_Alps project to promote and implement energy
management solutions as a centralized service for the Municipalities. The Enercloud+
platform was deeply analyzed and a template was filled-in in order to correctly address the
objectives of the IMEAS project. In March 2018 a meeting between Piemonte Region and the
Turin School for Local Regulation (Fondazione per l’Ambiente) was organized with the aim of
sharing ideas and in order to describe in depth and to present the Enercloud+ tool. In April
2018 the IMEAS project finalized the stakeholder network model and presented the results at
the project meeting in Lyon. The networking with the IMEAS project and the draft of the
IMEAS stakeholder network model, carried out for the Enercloud+ platform, were really
helpful. The interactive web instrument provided by IMEAS (the networking model) clarifies
the relations between the stakeholders, helping the Region in improving its cooperation with
the other key actors involved in this service. The template that has been provided to the
Region was a good occasion to think about the structure of the service, the main outcomes
currently achieved within the PEACE_Alps project, defining a roadmap for the further
development of the platform.
PEACE_Alps representatives attended the EUSALP Action Group Forum which was held in
February 2017 in the Congress Center of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria Germany.
EUSALP constitutes a strategic agenda that should guide relevant policy instruments at EU,
national and regional level, by closely aligning and mutually reinforcing them in order to face
current major challenges like: economic
globalization, demographic trends, climate
change and the energy challenge. To reach
this goal nine action groups were created, in
which experts work together in order to
obtain determined objectives concerning
one or more of the previously listed issues. Not only action groups gain new inputs but also
projects among themselves could network and exchange experiences and overlapping
contents. One among other projects that PEACE_Alps could find several ties with was
IMEAS (Integrated and Multi-level Energy models for the Alpine Space) represented by
Roberta Roberto from ENEA. The project has as an objective to enhance the ability of public
administrations to plan sustainable energy policies and select the right measures/instruments
to implement them.
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The different needs of municipalities and obstacles preventing implementation of energy
measures on local level, that have been collected by PEACE_Alps, are also an important
basis for future IMEAS results. Thus, it’s been proved once again that transnational
networking actively supports individual projects and represents an important element of
future success.
PEACE_Alps takes also part in the Italian mid-term conference in Trento on the 5th of
December.
The Data4Action project was considered as a milestone for the PEACE_Alps project,
particularly for the central role attributed to the One
Stop Shops for a better implementation and a better
monitoring of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. This is
one of the key aspects stressed by the project, and
crucial in order to centralize the energy services
towards the Local Authorities. The Data4Action project
was also of inspiration for the definition of transferable
models of collaboration, through bilateral exchanges
agreements. This approach has been adopted by the PEACE_Alps project in order to
transfer the experience of the PEACE_Alps project partners to other territorial coordinators.
The experience gained with the 2020Together project, can be successfully replicated also
in the PEACE_Alps project, as it is an example of how a territorial public authority can
identify the needs of municipalities, pool them together and act as coordinator. The
2020Together project was deeply analyzed in order to gain experience on the topic of the
energy refurbishment of public buildings/street lights. This project was successfully managed
by the Piemonte Region within the IEE program. The approach prospected by the
2020Together, with the bundling of several municipalities and the selection of a certain
number of public buildings to be refurbished, was taken as a reference for the PEACE_Alps
project. This topic was indicated in the AF of the PEACE_Alps project as one of the three
centralized solutions to be implemented at local level.
PEACE_Alps was presented during the
workshop “Facilitating EPC contracts”,
organized in Milan in March 2017 in the
framework of the GuranTEE project. This
project is promoting the spread in Europe of
the Energy Performance Contracts in public
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and private buildings, focusing on the figure of the facilitator. The facilitator is a professional
that can be the customer's support in understanding the potential to improve energy
efficiency, the mode of intervention and funding, the selection of the ESCO and generally in
managing relationship between the parties. The PEACE_Alps project has been presented as
an innovative approach which intends to develop a centralized technical service (facilitation)
to support the local authorities under joint implementation of the Action Plan for Sustainable
Energy. In particular by promoting a centralized energy management service and by
disseminating the bundling approach for buildings and public lighting refurbishment using
EPC. These kind of measures help municipalities in making economies of scale and having
that critical mass required to make tenders appealing.
In the following table, an overview of the contribution established in the networking meetings
for project activities is provided.
Project Program WPT3: definition/fine
tuning of centralized solutions
WPT4: Replication activities and policy
recommendation drafting
WPC: Communi
cation
GRETA Alpine Space X
STEPPING MED X X
GO APPLY Alpine Space X
THE 4BEES Alpine Space X X
CESBA_Alps Alpine Space X X
IMEAS Alpine Space X
DATA4ACTION IEE X
2020TOGETHER IEE X
PREPAIR Life X
FINERPOL Interreg Europe X
GE-NIUS Elena X
PROSPER Elena X
ENERSHIFT Horizon 2020 X
Guarantee Horizon 2020 X
SUPPORT Interreg Europe X