Periodic Reporting for period 2 - 2ISECAP (Institutionalized Integrated Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2023-03-01 do 2024-12-31
Effective and efficient planning for the energy transition, thus, can greatly benefit from allowing an open and creative process of confronting formal decision-making with the places, stakeholders and communities they aim to affect or activate. communities.
The creation of an institutional environment (i.e. a governance structure) that can combine the democratic legitimacy and legal power of formal plans and policies with the creativity, energy and social capacity of (bottom-up) initiatives, entrepreneurship and community involvement will definitely add great value to the energy transition and ensure its success.
In such context, the project aims at:
- Introducing a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Energy Climate Action Plan (SECAP) Planning that will support Participatory and Integrated sustainable energy and climate actions planning
- Studying, enhancing the understanding and identifying critical success and failure factors regarding the effective mobilization of citizens and stakeholders
- Designing the Governance Structure required to establish the holistic (participatory and integrated) approach
- Providinge proof on the proposed Integrated SECAP planning approach by applying it to the following six European Municipalities: Karditsa (GR), Thun (SW), Tartu (ES), Ljutomer (SL), Leon (ES), and Padova (IT).
Based on this analysis the project is currently working on the development of the Holistic Approach to SECAP Planning that roots SECAPs in the specificity of local and regional spatial and socio-economic conditions, enhancing its links with spatial planning in every local society. This approach is based on a multi-level, interdisciplinary co-creation process, supported on a local level as a new planning framework to foster integrated local action.
Moreover, the project defined and the Local Energy Coalitions (LECs), i.e. bottom-up initiatives of different actors that join forces aiming to support specific energy projects or initiatives. A Transnational Living Lab on Local Energy Transition has been developed within the project that has already 38 signatories outside the consortium (i.e. mostly municipalities). The objective of this initiative is to support municipalities to achieve the energy transition.
Dissemination and awareness activities at different territorial levels play an important role to maximize 2ISECAP project impacts. Such activities involve the Transnational Living Lab workshops held in Turin on September 2022, Valladolid May 2023 and Barcelona 2023 and an international event in Timisoara on September 2024 and the Living Labs instituted within the six selected European Municipalities (Karditsa (GR), Thun (SW), Tartu (ES), Ljutomer (SL), Leon (ES), and Padova (IT)). In the framework of national roadshows aiming to raise awareness on the project, a total of 29 events were held across 8 countries with more than 10,000 participants, bringing together diverse stakeholders (citizens, representatives from municipalities or other public organizations, energy agencies, researchers, urban and regional planners, innovators, energy providers and distributors, policymakers, companies and entrepreneurs, academics, students, development organisations, financiers, spatial planners, representatives from consulting firms, service providers, national organizations, etc.) to share knowledge, discuss innovative strategies, and collaborate on sustainable development solutions. These events provided a valuable platform for fostering international cooperation and advancing the goals of the 2ISECAP project.
Links to projects:
Cost Action SHiFT: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21166/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
Interreg ReS_EAU: https://interreg-maritime.eu/web/reseau(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
SIU Conference: https://www.societaurbanisti.it/conferences/transizioni-giustizia-spaziale-e-progetto-di-territorio/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)