The Spanish permanent multilateral Smart Finance FORUM for Smart Buildings

Project Information

AUNA

Grant agreement ID: 957119

DOI

10.3030/957119

Project closed

EC signature date 4 September 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost

€ 1 030 575,00

EU contribution

€ 990 200,00

Coordinated by

GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL-ESPANA CONSEJO PARA LA EDIFICACION SOSTENIBLE-ESPANA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - AUNA (The Spanish permanent multilateral Smart Finance FORUM for Smart Buildings)

Reporting period: 2021-10-01 to 2022-09-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

AÚNA addresses the lack of dialogue between the different sustainable building sector: construction, energy, financing. Each one speaks a language with specialized words difficult to understand by others and the citizenship.

This lack of dialogue becomes a problem for the escalation of sustainable building and in particular of the energy renovation of buildings, which requires the agreement of all the actors.

AÚNA fosters this dialogue by the creation of a Forum, which is the dialogue itself as well as the actors who participate in it, and even the space (mostly virtual lately) where the conversations take place.

This action is important for society because building renovation is an essential way to achieve decarbonization, and it has very important societal benefits as health and comfort, property value update, job creation and economy activation.

This financial dialogue Forum has become even more important as the project had to adapt first to the covid 19, and later on to the war in Ukraine situation, which have brought considerable ups and downs in social and economic terms, first increasing the uncertainty, later on with the decisive game changer of the Recovery Funds Next Generation EU, landed in Spain through the Plan España Puede, where building renovation receives high financial consideration in proper adaptation of the EU policies of decarbonization in the building sector (Renovation Wave), and in general (Fit for 55)…. and finally with the overall inflationary situation and the increase of the energy prices, in combination with the national measures to reduce the impact of these onto the household’s economies.

AÚNA focusses on home renovation as this is the largest renovation space, and the one in highest need for support.

In this sense, the project-specific objectives are:

1: Promote a common understanding of energy efficiency financing for buildings renovation among the varied stakeholders related to the sector.
2: Develop and strengthen permanent stakeholders’ platforms integrating relevant actors from all key groups of the building sector.
3: Involve stakeholders across Spain in permanent multilateral discussions on energy efficiency investments in existing buildings
4: Identify, analyse and set up the basis to upscale existing best practice initiatives (at Spanish and European level) on the financing of energy efficiency in the building sector.
5: Provide input and feed policy making to support the implementation of new financial models and improve the already existing ones
6: Provide recommendations to policy makers to create appropriate mechanisms to support the mobilisation of investments into energy-efficient renovation of buildings
7: Disseminate the Project’s results and outputs to reach further stakeholders not directly involved in the roundtables.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The structure of the events program of the AÚNA Forum was initially planned as a “circular journey” from the present version of the Spanish Long Term Renovation Strategy (ERESEE 2020) to the next version, ERESEE 2023, with three inner cycles (with two webinars and one Debate Table) of: Demand (as seen from the citizens), Offer (as seen from the industry and the financial world) and Value (the space where all must converge as the perception of an increased value by all will guarantee growth and escalation.

In the course of the process, in the revision of the EPBD, the 2023 version of the ERESEE was substituted by the National Building Renovation Plan 2025, which will finally take place in 2026, so the Project had to adapt itself to channel the bases for this output to take place in the future.

Best practices are presented at the Webinars, all of which are open to experts as well as general public. The Debate Tables include an open section of keynote speeches and a closed discussion among experts.

The events AÚNA has hosted in its two-year calendar are:

• Kickoff meeting, October 8th and 9th 2021
• W0, Y ahora qué, (sobre un aspecto tan esencial como pobremente considerado en rehabilitación que es la demanda, April 29th 202
• MD1, ERESEE 2020, ¿cómo maximizar su impacto dentro del marco de financiación en el contexto actual? May 27th 2021
• W1, Nadie sueña con rehabilitar su casa, ¿verdadero o falso?, June 29th 2021
• W2, ¿A qué teléfono llamo?, July 20th 2021
• MD2, ¿De quién depende la Demanda, September 30th 2021
• W3, El momento de las soluciones, October 26th 2021
• W4. ¿Preparados, ¿listos?, ¡ya! (ready, steady, go) November 23rd 2021
• MD3, Alianzas para el escalado de la rehabilitación, February 17th 2022 (in person)
• W5, ¿Sabe alguien cuál es la rentabilidad de la rehabilitación energética en la edificación?, March 22nd 2022
• W6. Depende… ¿de qué depende? ¿alguna certeza sobre el valor de la rehabilitación?, April 21st 2022
• MD4, Entendiendo el aumento de valor para los propietarios, June 28th 2022
• W7, ¿Contamos contigo?, July 22st 2022

• M1, first matchmaking event, May 17th 2022
• M2, second matchmaking event, July 1st 2022

• Final event, Todos AÚNA, El futuro de la edificación en juego, I Cumbre sobre la transición de la financiación en rehabilitación, September 21st and 22nd 2022, in person

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

AÚNA has been successful in starting the unification of the languages and the conversations.

Through its own events, as well as through the label “AÚNA connected event”, (which is the way AÚNA has to also be part of the related events organized by others), AÚNA has been able to strengthen relationships with all the community, becoming central at the discussion of building renovation financing, having publicly received the acknowledgement of top Government officials.

It has increased the size of the renovation community (especially with the financial stakeholders, which practically has multiplied by ten), facilitating connections and alliances, and achieving a relatively high cohesion among them.

It goes on stressing the importance of actually reaching the citizens in order to make renovation attractive and them interested, and has given solid steps in terms of communicating it, through its webpage facility.

It has created a substantial agreement on the state of the market, the difficulties and the steps to follow, now that the transition has started.

An essential part of this agreement is that the moment is ripe but it also is extremely difficult, so collaboration is strongly needed, and AÚNA appears to be in an extraordinary position to continue the work as the leading Forum in Spain on building renovation financing.

Online events development, and public officers' acknowledgment

Webpage information on financial products, public support and IHRS

Innovative financial schemes

Focus groups citizens' participation and webpage interaction facility

Top 12 recommendations into the future

Project's concept and workplan

From ERESEE 2020 to ERESEE 2023 Forum designed trajectory

AÚNA's final event manifesto

Objectives and KPIs

Final preparatory Webinar and final event "Todos AÚNA"

Initial ERESEE, Demand, Offer and Value cycles of the Forum

Community stakeholders' evolution

Consortium and Advisory Board participants

AÚNA connected events