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Empowering women to take action against energy poverty in the Mediterranean

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Women and RES: Starting at home

The EU’s Renewable Energy Sources (RES) Directive of 2009 seeks to raise the share of RES in final energy consumption to 20 % by 2020. Heating and cooling, responsible for nearly half of Europe's energy demand, is challenging in buildings of Mediterranean coastal areas, and particularly severe in single-parent households led by women. Taking into account the dynamic role women play in an economy, the EmpowerMed programme will connect them with health practitioners in a series of awareness pilot programmes to reduce energy poverty, assess its impact on health, and share knowledge for policy building at local- and EU-wide level.

Objective

In the Mediterranean countries, the coastal areas are facing several specific challenges when it comes to energy poverty, mainly connected with thermal comfort of dwellings. Buildings are scarcely isolated, often there are no heating systems in buildings, or those are highly inefficient, and the cooling component is more important than in other areas, calling for a diversity of energy services beyond heating. Women and women-led households are disproportionately affected by energy poverty, while women’s agency is highlighted in acting against energy poverty. Although there is some knowledge on the health impacts of energy poverty, involving health practitioners in the energy poverty action is rare.

This is why the main objective of the project is to contribute to energy poverty abatement in the Mediterranean through a) implementing a set of practical energy efficiency and RES measures, tailored to empower households in energy poverty and specifically focused on women and health, b) assessing their efficiency and impacts to formulate policy recommendations and c) promoting policy solutions among key actors for stimulating action against energy poverty at local and EU level.

The project will first build networks with local actors in pilot regions (WP1) and transfer knowledge and experience to build capacity of all involved actors for implementing practical measures (WP2). The core of the project is implementation of practical measures to tackle energy poverty, such as community approaches, household visits, do-it-yourself approaches, support for small investments and health workshops (WP3). The impacts and success of the implemented measures will be assessed and analysed (WP4) to support formulation of policy recommendations, which will be advocated among key actors to stimulate and support policies against energy poverty (WP5). Project results and outcomes will be disseminated among the target groups to ensure a wide reach out at local, national and EU level.

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Call for proposal

H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020

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Sub call

H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2018

Funding Scheme

CSA - Coordination and support action

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FOCUS DRUSTVO ZA SONARAVEN RAZVOJ
Net EU contribution
€ 312 750,00
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Maurerjeva ulica 7
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

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Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Osrednjeslovenska
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Research Organisations
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EC signature date 8 April 2019
Last update: 26 February 2023

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