Europa project has been implemented by nine organizations in Italy, France, Portugal, Germany and Latvia with the support of technical partners. During the three years of implementation the partners joined their efforts to establish and run OneStop-Shops for home renovation in order to boost the energy renovation market in the respective region. In doing so, the partners developed a common scheme of standards and specifications to be used to provide an improved quality of works and forms of guarantee of energy performance, the so called Energy Efficiency Subscription. Besides, all the five regional partners spent a lot of effort in establishing cooperation with local market operators and financial institutions in order to activate the final demand (main target were condominium) and trigger energy efficiency investments. Besides, a mutual learning activity among the partners helped them to work together sharing ideas, methods, knowledge and strategies.
The project was used to establish and run 5 regional one stop shops in the regions of Piemonte, Allgau, Isere, Alentano Tejo and in the Latvia country. The five One-Stop Shops offer email, phone as well as in person consultations with clients (mainly condominiums) and provide information and supportive services. Moreover, all One-Stop Shops applied the adapted Energy Efficiency Subscription developed within the framework of EUROPA.
At least 3 main project outputs can be highlighted.
The first one is the Energy Efficiency Subscription scheme with its english general version and the 5 adapted versions to the regional context covered by the project. The Energy Efficiency Subscription (EES) sets standards and requirements for the deep energy renovation of residential buildings to improve the energy performance of renovated buildings while ensuring high quality of the renovation interventions in the five regions involved. The EES aims to build trust between house owners/property managers, operators (professionals, craftsmen, ESCo, utilities, construction companies) and financing institutions by defining technical, financial and contractual requirements and standards that need to be considered and implemented throughout the whole process of deep renovations of residential buildings, thus contributing to the achievement of expected energy savings.
Besides, the self learning material on the establishment and running of a One Stop-Shop for home renovation. During the EUROPA project, all project partners gained experience in engaging renovation stakeholders and diverse types of homeowners. To effectively share this knowledge, the mentors themselves prepared the mentoring process with the help of tailored learning materials on peer learning and replication processes. The self-directed learning package resulted in 9 video presentations about One Stop Shops and three video presentations about the Energy Efficiency subscription.
Finally, the SUNShINE platform powered by EUROPA as a multi-stakeholder platform for digitalising energy renovation activities from initiation to monitoring and evaluation. It consists of different tools to support the work of One-Stop Shops, any organisation active in energy renovation activities, as well as financial and governmental institutions, and, of course, the residents of multi-family buildings.
