AREA 21 – Promoting Cooperative Processes for Integrated Energy Planning at a District Level

AREA 21 is a three-year transnational cooperation project that is jointly carried out by 10 partner organisations from the Baltic Sea Region. The project seeks to model energy efficient urban areas of the future, adopting collaborative stakeholder engagement processes in the strategic planning and implementation of energy solutions.

Specifically, AREA 21 brings together public authorities, energy providers, property owners and citizens to find and apply the best solutions for saving energy to decrease CO2 emissions. To achieve this, the project enables local authorities from cities around the Baltic Sea Region to run cooperative planning processes within Energy Improvement Districts. The process seeks to help authorities to work together across different sectors, to understand citizens’ motives and barriers, and to activate relevant players in urban neighbourhoods.