Short description: The EmBuild Final conference “Energy efficient buildings: Plan. Invest. Renovate!” will be a full-day event, held in partnership with the Energy Community. The event aims to explore how cities and municipalities can be the engine for achieving the deep renovation targets of Europe's building stock.
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Short description: Regional roundtable, with public officers from all EmBuild implementing countries, has been held within CROENERGY 2017 conference in form of hour and a half of interesting energy efficiency related topics and differences/similarities between Serbia, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia
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Short description: Spa-ce.net is a common-interest network of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European institutes and organizations active in the field of spatial research and planning. Тhe event included 19 presentations given by 30 participants from nine European countries. Thirty speakers are coming from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia, Slovakia and The Netherlands. Mr. Dragomir Tzanev, CEO of EnEffect, presented EmBuild activities and its role in professional capacity building in the area of energy efficiency at national and local level.
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Short description: AE3R is supporting ten municipalities in Prahova County to elaborate the "Energy Efficiency Improvement Plan" (PIEE). In order to complete this goal, the AE3R is participating in working sessions with the representatives of local authorities in the Prahova county. Official kick-off of this ongoing activity was in Magurele and Lipanesti Municipalities.
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Short description: Presentation of the national renovation strategies of Bulgaria in a regional context during a specialzied policy session at the European Sustainable Energy Week.
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Short description: Between the 21-23 June 2017, the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Agency "AE3R Ploiesti-Prahova" participated with a stand at the RoEnergy South-East Europe International Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Exchange Bucharest 2017, which takes place in Bucharest. AE3R's participation in this prestigious fair aimed to present the EmBuild project and its activities, disseminate renewable energy and energy efficiency agency activities, create a link between public authorities and key actors and decision-makers in the field.
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Short description: Second workshop about the EmBuild’s tools as support to the municipal energy planning took place in Portorož on 15 June 2017 with participants from local communities with presentations of EMBuild tools and support documents.
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Short description: NALAS General Assembly, NALAS' annual Statutoty Meeting - The XII General Assembly of NALAS took place in Vienna on the 19th May 2017, with over 50 participants, including SEE Mayors as delegates, Local Government Associations’ leadership, partners and supporters.
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Short description: EmBuild tool was presented to public officers form severalc ollaborating municipalities and wider public within the 61st International Techical Fair at Belgrade Fair on 16th May 2017. Gathered information on the public building stock in the network municipalities as well as methodologies developed within the procejt, on preliminary and detail analysis were presented. A case study of a preliminary analysis of a school in Belgrade was presented. All the material from the presentation is available online as a three piece webinar on EmBuild Serbia youtube channel.
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Short description: The 'green' conference, organized within the City of Karlovac Sustainable Development Week, was held in the City Hall with more than 100 public officers in audience. Among other interesting presentations from RES&EE area- REGEA held a 40min workshop about energy efficiency measures which can be implemented at low and no-cost. Traditional measures were described as well, together with financial instruments at disposal to public sector.
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Short description: EmBuild project and an on-line platform for calculation of investments in energy efficiency measures in the building stock renewal were presented within the Energy Efficiency seminar at RENEXPO conference on 27th of April 2017. Network of municipalities collaborating on EmBuild project in Serbia, as well as planned activities and scope of the project were presented to wider public and public sector represenatives.
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Short description: First workshop about the EmBuild’s tools as support to the municipal energy planning was held within Slovene Local Energy Agencies consortium meeting. Workshop took place in Velenje on 13 April 2017 With participants from all Slovenian energy agencies which together covers the entire country from a territorial view. On the workshop also a low and no costs measures catalouge for energy efficiency has been presented.
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Short description: One of the main highlights of the event was the EmBuild concept presentation, delivered by eng. Kamen Simeonov, project manager at EnEffect. The EmBuild project and its approaches and tools are beneficial for: analyzing the energy consumption of the municipal buildings, carrying out preliminary analyzes on the spot in the buildings, assessing cheap and free energy efficiency measures , as well as for carrying out detailed analyzes of priority buildings.
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Short description: EmBuild project was presented at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering within the presentation of the project GreenCareer on 19th of January 2017. GreenCareer is an ERASMUS+ Programme funded project, which aims to promote green jobs among young people through creation of infrastructure and support for finding a right job in the filed of green economy. EmBuild project presented opportunities in the sector of buidling stock refurbishment and management at local and regional level in the context of opportunities for further development and carrer planning.
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Short description: On 12th of January 2017- a workshop entitled “SOUSTVARJANJE SLOVENSKE NACIONALNE STRATEGIJE PRENOVE” (Co-creation of Slovenian national renovation strategy) has been organized in co-organization with the Slovenian Green Building Council, who’s participating in an EU project with very similar objective. The event was held in Ljubljana with participant from different organizations – energy agencies, SMEs including KSSENA with presentation about EmBuild project. Together with all participants we set up the most important steps for national renovation strategy which should be prepared by the end of April this year.
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Short description: The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Agency "AE3R Ploiesti-Prahova" participated at the National Symposium on Informatics, Automation and Telecommunications in Energy - SIE 2016, organized by the Society of Energy Engineers in Romania, from the 26-28 of October 2016. During the discussion sessions the current topical issues that concern most of the specialists involved in the energy field were debated. At this year's edition, representatives of AE3R Ploiesti-Prahova presented the EmBuild project and its activities.
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Short description: On 25th of October KSSENA participated on the coference "Energijska prenova javnih stavb - od obvez do uspešne izvedbe" (Energy renovation of public buildings - from commitment to the successful implementation) where presenters talked about good practises in Slovenia on the field of energy renovation of public buildings, CBA analizes, energy renovation of the building heritage, etc.
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Short description: Within the EU funded project PRIMUS the conference about green public procurement processes and other 'green' topics- has been held in the City of Koprivnica. Within the presentation of EmBuild a special emphasis was put on barriers in implementation of energy efficiency measures in public buildings.
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Short description: "Inventiveness for Increasing Economic Efficiency in the Industry" was organized by the Petroleum and Gas University of Ploiesti and the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Agency „AE3R Ploiesti-Prahova” and Mr. Bogdan Potlogia, director of AE3R has presented the EmBuild project, it’s purpose and objectives. The event was organized within „ExpoEnergiE- Fair and Conferences 2016”.
Short description: The conference, co-organized by FEDARENE, the Covenant of Mayors and the Abruzzo Region, is a follow-up of the Paris Accord, focusing in particular on adaptation to climate change and mitigation measures. At the conference, Mr. Catalin CSASZAR, project manager at the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Agency "AE3R Ploiesti-Prahova", presented the EmBuild project, which supports the public authorities in the South-Eastern European countries to prepare a long-term strategy for mobilizing investments in the energy sector.
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Short description: The roundtable gathered municipal experts in order to improve their knowledge, skills and competences for energy planning and pathways for efficient renovation of the existing building stock.
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Short description: On 15th of September a workshop entitled “SOUSTVARJANJE SLOVENSKE NACIONALNE STRATEGIJE PRENOVE” (Co-creation of Slovenian national renovation strategy) has been organized in co-organization with the Slovenian Green Building Council, who’s participating in an EU project with very similar objective. The event was held in Celje with participant from different Ministries and organizations – energy agencies, banks, SMEs including KSSENA and their representatives in EmBuild project.
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Short description: On 13th of September KSSENA participated on the coference "Trajnostna energija lokalno - Kako do skoraj ničenergijskih stavb?" (Local sustainable energy - How to reach nearly zero-energy buildings) where presenters talked about nZeB concept in Slovenia - how local actors can reach this requirement, which are traps, opportunities and the ambitions in the future, etc.
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Short description: Insipired by European Energy Week- City of Velika Gorica has decided to devote one day focused on projects in sectors of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Given the type of target audience (citizens and public officers)- EmBuild was also presented in conference programme.
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Short description: The benefits of EmBulid for capacity building was represented during the first edition of the international C4E Forum (Central and Eastern European Energy Efficiency Forum) which has been held near Balchik, Northeast Bulgaria. C4E Forum focuses especially on discussions concerning energy strategies and local energy and climate adaptation planinng. EcoEnergy demonstrated its leading role for local capacity building in a special workshop.
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Short description: The annual conference of the Bulgarian-German Industrial and Commercial Chamber was focused on energy efficiency in buildings, as EnEffect delivered 2 presentations - on the national renovation programme and on the capacity buildings efforts needed for effective implementation of the policies at national and regional level.
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Short description: The contest, organized by the French Institute in Bulgaria, with special participation of public, local authorities and industry partners, is focusing on to climate change and mitigation measures. Its aim is to promote tools for improving the energy efficiency of public building and housing. At the seminar, EnEffect as a jury member, presented the EmBuild project, which supports the public authorities to establish goals and pathways in their long-term strategy for mobilizing investments in the energy sector.
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Short description: On 9 June a conference entitled “Realizacija dolgoročne strategije za energetsko obnovo stavb” (Realization of long-term building renovation strategy ) has been organized. The event was held in Portorož, Slovenia with participants from local community. On the event we talked about project EmBuild, its activities, workplan and important role of renovation strategy for each local community.
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Short description: The representative of the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the European Commission (EASME), Mr. Vincent Berrutto, has presented the open topics to be funded under the Energy Efficiency call, within Horizon 2020. Also, among other speakers- REGEA has presented the EmBuild and their overall experience with EU funded projects.
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Short description: The conference was attended by various experts and officials including Mr. Tomislav Donchev, the Vice President of the Council of Ministers and H.E. Mr. Xavier Lapper de Caban, the Ambassador of the Republic of France to Bulgaria. EmBuild's project activities contributed for raising awareness of the obstacles in the process of sustainable energy planning on local level in Bulgaria.
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Short description: An in-depth presentation introduced the EmBuild's instruments concerning the specific support schemes for public authorities at local, regional and national level in establishing their strategies for building sector renovation by boosting the deep energy preliminary analysis and planning methods.
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Short description: The meeting of NALAS Task Force on Energy Efficiency took place in Vienna on the 08-09 March 2016. The TF EE meeting gathered in total 21 participants and the main focus of the discussions was regional cooperation in SEE related with energy efficiency, joint projects, activities and follow-ups related to energy efficiency at local level in South-East Europe.
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