| FosterREG aims at enhancing public capacity at local, regional and national levels to plan, finance and manage integrated urban regeneration for sustainable energy uptake, through capacity building, promotion and articulation of effective multilevel coordination, and national as well as European network strengthening. These objectives will be achieved through public stakeholders’ engagement in joint analysis and knowledge development activities, as well as creation and dissemination of targeted training materials and activities across Europe. Read more... |
FosterREG project has been presented at Information Day on Environment and Energy Areas in Horizon 2020 that was held in Gliwice, Poland on 18th October 2016.
FosterREG was presented during a session dedicated to implemented projects and success cases in Horizon 2020.
On the 4th July a follow-up workshop was held in the town hall of Utrecht. New and familiar FosterREG participant from municipalities, NGO’s, national government, energy/citizen cooperation and companies came together, during the afternoon, to further develop the three joint strategies as developed in the Collaborative Analysis process of FosterREG:
FosterREG Partners have started working on the next task - the capacity building activities which is the core of FosterREG project. The aim of this task is to equip public authorities with new knowledge and understanding, fostering their capacity for planning, financing and implementation of energy efficiency measures integration into urban regeneration on the scale of city district.
FosterREG Partners are now focusing on the planning of the capacity building activities to be carried out during the second year of FosterREG, building on the results from prior tasks, as well as the creation of the necessary content for different capacity building activities during the project. Building on results achived so far training materials addressing key issues related to regulation, management and financing will be developed, targeting the appropriate levels of the public sector, highlighting best practices and addressing barriers and challenges identified during previous work. The materials developed will also be publicly available and an account of all the generated material will presented on the FosterREG website.
More information on FosterREG training acivities will be provded in the next newsletter edtiton.
For starting up cross country comparison, and to have a reflection at EU level on Energy Efficiency ambitions in urban regeneration processes, FosterREG partners have organised an EU wide workshop in Brussels, at the first day of the EU Energy Week, 13th of June. Representatives of the European Commission, dealing with urban development and energy, network organisations such as Euro Cities, NALAS and other city networks, and representatives of the three national clusters (Spain, Croatia and the Netherlands) have participated in the workshop.
Earlier this year, in parallel, in FosterREG three national clusters (in Croatia, the Netherlands and Spain), a series of workshops have addressed the barriers to reach the EU objectives on Energy Efficiency in Urban Regeneration. Specifically for this purpose a process map has been developed to guide a collaborative approach (with several stakeholders), first identifying the barriers, generating a long list of solutions and working towards coherent strategies to overcome the identified barriers.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649846 |
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