Expert jury awards best MODEL cities!

by Christophe Fréring on 1 April 2010 / 314 visites

On 25 February the independent jury of the MODEL Award gathered in Brussels for an actually quite difficult job to analyse and evaluate 21 excellent applications that were submitted in the framework of the second edition of the MODEL Award competition.

The evaluation criteria addressed the three most important issues of the MODEL common framework methodology:

Setting up and quality of the Energy Management Unit
Development and implementation of ambitious Municipal Energy Programmes / Action Plans / Investment Programmes
Organisation and quality of Municipal Intelligent Energy Days

As a result the jury decided to award the following three cities:

1st prize for the city of Dobrich in Bulgaria
2nd prize for the city of Brasov in Romania
3rd prize for the city of Velenje in Slovenia

Furthermore, the jury also decided to award a special mention to the municipality of Cankova in Slovenia in recognition of the overall quality of its commitments and achievements to tackle energy issues from the point of view of a rather small rural authority.

Mr Dobrin Savchev who is the President of the Jury and also Deputy Mayor of Gabrovo in Bulgaria has handed over the prizes during the Award Ceremony which was part of the European Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels on 24th March 2010.

The award ceremony was part of a major conference organised by Energie-Cités for the Eastern and Central European local authorities: “Central and Eastern European local authorities are acting to take up new challenges and opportunities”. You may download the programme here.

The first prize consisted in 5000 customized thermometers to be used during the City of Dobrich’s next Municipal Intelligent Energy Day while the other awarded cities received a certificate.

For more information on the MODEL project please visit www.energymodel.eu