CoME EASY’s overall objective is to promote, facilitate and extend the engagement of local authorities in setting up and implementing sustainable and effective energy and climate action plans according to EU targets by applying the CoME EASY open tools package that synthesizes acknowledged initiatives such as the eea, CoM, ISO standards and SCIS and facilitates multiple commitments. It will support at least 95 municipalities with 6 million inhabitants and lead to stronger energy and climate performances on local level all over Europe.
The project aims to remove barriers and to share experiences and associated success factors for innovative sustainable policy implementation. The delivery of a supporting stakeholders’ involvement framework as well as a monitoring/quality management system will allow a detailed review of the current situation with a perfect basis for developing or improving policy most appropriate to the local authority.
The project package for municipalities will set the basis for a successful cooperation of Local Authorities with stakeholders since the decision making process and also with business: investors will be attracted by the reliability of the actions, the administration commitment, the population awareness and the quality management procedures in use.
Municipalities will be involved in a process which will improve their capacity and skills in energy and climate planning, quality management, EU targets and legislation, impact calculation and participatory processes. Stakeholders and citizens involved in the process could also benefit of those added values.
In the reporting period the project, capitalising partners’ experiences, has contributed to the achievement of the mentioned objectives by:
- Setting up the basis for the different initiatives’ alignment (tasks 1.1 1.2 and 1.3) analysing gaps, proposing adaptations, creating links
- Designed the open platform architecture and drafted the tools, completing the set with additional unforeseen instruments to be fully compliant with CoM and ISO 50001
- Involved the first group of municipalities, 18 Ambassadors, in the test phase of the “implementation support package”
- Created the first best practices collection to feed the library and collected the data for the KPIs dashboards to start the exchange and benchlearning among participating municipalities
- Produced the guidelines for stakeholders’ engagement in close cooperation with the EIP planning action cluster and their Smart Cities Guidance Package
- Started the review of the management system and the development of the SECAP in the Ambassador cities
- Drafted the materials for communication as well as for trainings
