Under Work Package 1:
- An ethics compliance report has been completed.
- All the Deliverables have been submitted.
- The Midterm Review meeting was held on the 8th July 2022.
- The Data Management Plan has been reviewed every six months and updated by the end of the project.
- Draft reports were completed which detailed the plan for data and IP management were issued and is updated every 6 months. A final report summarising IPR management activities was completed in advance of the end of the project.
- The First and Second Progress Report were submitted.
- The Final Publishable summary has been completed in advance of the end of the project.
- An ethics compliance report has been completed.
Under Work Package 2 is now complete.
- Research and review of existing OSSs, stakeholder engagement strategies, existing tools, policies and projects.
- The standardized UP-STAIRS OSS business model framework has been designed for each region.
- A set of collective financial schemes has been developed and it has been assessed and adapted for each region’s typology, socioeconomic, and climate contexts.
- Standards for governance and mediation processes were defined for each region.
- A plan was developed for adapting the UP-STAIRS Framework to the pilot contexts.
- The engagement strategies for enticing citizens to participate in energy communities has been developed for each region.
- The training plan and training material have been developed for the Implementation champions and are now ready to be implemented.
Under Work Package 3:
- All the Deliverables have been submitted.
- Each pilot region has identified Implementation Champions candidates and identified their training needs.
- A community Energy Action plan has been developed for each pilot site (D3.1).
- A plan for monitoring the implementation of the OSSs has been developed.
- The first training for Implementation Champions took place in all the UP-STAIRS pilots by M22 and its corresponding report was completed (D3.2).
- OSS opened in all the pilots by M23 and have been operational up to the end of the project.
- The monitoring programme for the OSS has been implemented and monitoring data has been updated every three months since M25 and up to the end of the project.
Under Work Package 4
- All the Deliverables have been submitted.
- The UP-STAIRS Digital Platform went live in M25 and has remained operational until the end of the project. It was tested after it became operational.
- The training guide for the UP-STAIRS Digital Platform has been completed.
- The strategy for the UP-STAIRS Digital Platform replication and scaling has been designed.
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) potential to facilitate collective action has been explored and analysed.
Under Work Package 5
- All the Deliverables have been submitted.
- Potential key actors have been surveyed.
- Key steps, incentives and blockages for the collective actions have been identified for each partner country.
- A framework for legal support to citizens has been designed.
- Three UP-STAIRS Workshops have taken place.
- The framework for legal support to citizens has been updated.
- A policy paper on facilitating collective actions has been produced, including regulatory barriers and recommendations.
Under Work Package 6
- All the Deliverables have been submitted.
- The Dissemination and Communication Plan was developed and submitted.
- The Dissemination and Communication Plan and materials have been updated.
- Project website was developed and launched, the Social Media channels are active.
- A graphical identity and dissemination materials were created and are disseminated.
- The second UP-STAIRS video has been produced.
- The Final Conference took place in M38.
- Training modules for citizens and potential UP-STAIRS Implementation Champions have been reviewed and new self-training materials have been created.
Work Package 7 is now complete
