Projects

Covenant of Mayors

What is the Covenant of Mayors? A mainstream European movement _ “[…] Mayors are ideally placed to tackle climate change. And it is impossible to overstate the importance of your commitment to this Covenant of Mayors.” José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission The Covenant of (...)
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Display® Campaign

What is the Display Campaign? The Display Campaign is the first and most widespread European Campaign to encourage municipalities to publicly display environmental performances of their municipal buildings. More than 13,000 buildings are labelled with the Display poster showing their energy (...)

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IMAGINE

Aims & Objectives Energy Cities started the IMAGINE initiative in 2006 as a follow-up of a discussion with member cities interested in the long-term perspective and a visioning approach of energy and territorial issues. Need for change The main idea behind this initiative lies in the (...)

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ENGAGE

What is ENGAGE? Having signed the Covenant, Mayors commit to “mobilise the civil society in (our) geographical areas to take part in developing the Action Plan”. ENGAGE is all about encouraging individuals to play their part! ENGAGE is a participative communications campaign implemented by (...)

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NET-COM

What is NET-COM? NET-COM : NETworking the Covenant Of Mayors The NET-COM project aims at empowering local authorities (at both political and administrative levels) to implement successfully their current (or future) Covenant engagements. Thus, NET-COM directly supports the EU’s Energy and (...)

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REVE d'Avenir

27 local authorities from France and Switzerland are engaged in the REVE d’Avenir project to face the energy and climate challenge. The project is unique in the sense that: it mobilises the 27 local authorities involved (with their 3.3 million inhabitants) around common actions linked to the (...)

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Les Assises de l’Energie

Les Assises de l’Energie This the largest meeting of French local authorities in the energy field. Alternately organized by the Urban Community of Dunkerque Grand Littoral and the Agglomeration Community of the Grenoble-Alpes Metropole, this event gathers more than 1,000 people during 2 days (...)

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Energy Efficiency Watch 2 (EEW2)

What is Energy Efficiency Watch 2? The specific objective of the "Energy Efficiency Watch 2" project is to continue the work undertaken by EEW1 project and to facilitate the process of implementation of the Energy Services Directive. The main target groups are Parliamentarians at European, (...)

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SF-Energy Invest

What is SF-Energy Invest? Collaborative Actions for Triggering Investments in Sustainable Energy Actions using Structural and Cohesion Funds. While the Structural and Cohesion Funds (SCF) represent a huge potential for European municipalities to fund sustainable energy projects, recent (...)

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Les Ateliers Plans Climat Energie

Les Ateliers Plans Climat Energie ‘Whorkshops for Climate & Energy Action Plans’ The French ‘Climate & Energy Action Plans’ (CEAP) are developing and urging local authorities to invent new processes along with local actors of their territories. Supported by the ADEME - the French (...)

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French Club of the Covenant of Mayors

French Club of the Covenant of Mayors The Covenant of Mayors is an unprecedented initiative. Built by the European Commission, it now belongs to the Signatory Mayors. It offers a unique framework at the European level, to get local climate and energy policies in the right direction to the EU (...)

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MODEL

What is MODEL? The MODEL (Management Of Domains related to Energy in Local authorities) project aims at helping Central and Eastern European local authorities to become models for their citizens. The main objective is to improve the practical capacities of local authoritiess and/or local (...)

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SESAC

SESAC (Sustainable Energy Systems in Advanced Cities) is part of the broader CONCERTO initiative with the aim of accelerating innovation in renewable energy (RE) solutions, advance energy efficiency (EE) and systems for poly-generation linked together with concepts for eco-buildings. Local (...)

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Ad Personam

Ad Personam is a Direct Marketing Programme for Public Transport. The project promotes Local Public Transport (LPT) in medium-sized European cities and is focused more closely on 7 pilot projects in 7 different European countries. Ad Personam is a European project co-financed by the European (...)

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Act2

Act2 (Action of cities to mainstream energy efficient building and renewable energy systems across Europe) is part of the broader CONCERTO initiative with the aim of accelerating innovation in renewable energy (RE) solutions, advance energy efficiency (EE) and systems for poly-generation linked (...)

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AIDA

AIDA - Affirmative Integrated Energy Design Action The recently launched AIDA project supports building professionals and local authorities all over Europe in designing nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB). AIDA offers action tailored to these target groups, such as study tours to innovative (...)

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Smart Spaces

SMARTSPACES – Saving Energy in Europe’s Public Buildings Using ICT On 11 January 2012 the SMARTSPACES project was officially launched at Bristol’s Create Centre. This project is co-funded by the European Commission within the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme and aims to improve energy monitoring (...)

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