BAPAURA started off with the objective of renovating 115 buildings and by those means, generating 7,8 GWh/year of energy savings and 23.7 million € of investments. At the end of the project, 73 projects have been signed, for 34.2 million € of investment.
First, an inventory of tools needed for a “public building renovation support service” was performed. The high demand for these tools and strong regional cohesion accelerated their development and endorsement for years to come. This toolbox is a result of the cooperation between all the partners, who have made their knowledge and experience available.
Later, partners started working on developing a comprehensive model that would allow local energy agencies, energy syndicates and similar institutions, to provide the required support to help small and mid-size municipalities to renovate their buildings. All the while, partners were working on advancing the renovation works in the engaged buildings.
The next phase of the project consisted in training the technical staff on the tools and methods to run the support service. Taking advantage of the well-established video conferences, trainings were deployed for project partners and made available online.
At the end of the first half of the project, the dissemination phase already started, due to the need for such tools and trainings. BAPAURA established pairings with 11 other territories that are eager to learn, adopt and implement the trainings and the toolbox developed during the project.
During the second half of the project, all the partners kept working with the municipalities to help them in their projects. In the meantime, the work on the toolbow continued. The new tools were not so much technical as in the first period, but more focus on the support service model and how to simplement it. The partners worked specifically on the legal aspects of the service (with ADEME and the help of other national entities), and on the business model of it : how to finance it, ...
This led to the creation of the main document of the project (which is also the sustainability document) : a guide on how to implement local support services to small municipalities, covering both technical, legal and economical aspects, with many feedback from all BAPAURA partners. The guide was widely disseminated thanks to other national entities.
Some training sessions have also be created : one about the impact of a project on the municipalitiy's budget, and one on the general feedback of BAPAURA (how to implement support services).
To disseminate widely our results and feedback, we used several channels :
- two newsletters per year, sent to 4000 people
- use of social medias ('linkedIn) with almost 50 000 views
- 18 webinars
- 1 final conference of the project, and 1 conference with companies and financiers
- 18 local events hosted by the partners (2 per each partner)
Some specific events allowed us to have a wider impact than expected : for instance Marie Jeanmougin (coordinator of BAPAURA) being one of the finalist of the young leader award for EUSEW, several articles were made on French newspapers on BAPAURA. The collaboration, during the second half of the project, with major national stakeholders (ACTEE program, National public Bank) also increased our dissemination potential ; for instance, our main guide is available on the website of BAPAURA project, but also on the main site of ADEME and on ACTEE toolbox.
