Work Package 1
Project management and organisation
- Focus and aim: Overall project, financial and communication management to ensure that the project meets its objectives within budget and scheduled timeframes.
- Key activities and outputs: The activities in WP 1 will include steering of the overall project implementation and monitoring the project progress and delivery of outputs.
- Responsible partner: HafenCity University Hamburg
Work Package 2
Strategy development for Energy Improvement Districts
- Focus and aim: Development of an integrated system approach for low emission urban areas. The approach aims to increase energy efficiency through the creation of synergies at a district level. It moves the focus away from single infrastructure or single building solutions and seeks to integrate sectoral practices.
- Key activities and outputs:
The activities in WP 2 will lead to the following main outputs:- Energy Improvement District concept: The partnership will develop a shared approach for integrated collaborative strategy development at a district level. Each project partner will follow this approach to analyse the status quo in their pilot area and to elaborate strategic goals for its future development. The results will feed in an EID strategy for each of the pilot areas and will be further used for specification of the Energy Improvement District concept.
- Guideline for cooperative energy planning at a district level: The partners will analyse the experience gathered in their pilot areas. They will generalize the results of the local activities from the specific local context, reflect on the main barriers and success factors and produce recommendations guiding the planning of low emission quarters in European cities.
- Responsible partner: HafenCity University Hamburg
Work Package 3
Establishment of local cooperation processes
- Focus and aim: Establishment of cooperation processes in each of the Energy Improvement Districts and identification of context-specific energy efficiency measures, tools, means and practical approaches for implementation of the EID strategies.
- Key activities and outputs:
The activities in WP 3 will lead to the following main outputs:- Action plans: Each of the partner cities will execute local workshops in their Energy Improvement District to explore the perspectives, interests and courses of action of property owners and energy utilities. The lessons learnt from the cooperation will be integrated in context-specific action plans.
- Process model for cooperation: The partners will develop a practical approach for public authorities on how to establish, maintain and develop cooperation processes with key local stakeholders responsible for energy generation, energy provision and management in the housing sector.
- Responsible partner: Region Skåne and Öresundskraft AB
Work Package 4
Piloting of ICT-based participation tools
- Focus and aim: Development and piloting of innovative ICT-based participation tools, which motivate the active engagement of citizens in the planning and implementation of energy efficiency solutions. The testing of the tools and the involvement of citizens as building property owners and users seek to demonstrate the real potentials, effects as well as challenges for the implementation of energy efficiency measures.
- Key activities and outputs:
The activities in WP 4 will lead to the following main outputs:- A report with good practices for citizen involvement in energy planning: Each partner city will identify a set of good practices of ICT-tools used in the field of energy planning. The lessons learnt from the analysis of good practices will support the development and testing in the project of new ICT-tools.
- Innovative ICT-based participation tools: Three project partners will develop new ICT-tools and will test them in the Energy Improvement Districts of Helsingborg, Tartu and Tampere. The new tools will contribute to raising awareness of citizens and property users about their energy consumption and to a long-term change in their energy consumption patterns. At the same time, the tools will provide public authorities, energy agencies and utilities with strategic incentives for involvement of citizens in ongoing and future energy efficiency initiatives.
- Guidance for new ICT-based participation model in energy planning: The project partners will analyse the different components of an ICT-based participation process and steps for its implementation. The guidance will support the replication and upscaling of successful participation practices tested in the partner cities and will be used as a future model in participatory energy planning.
- Responsible partner: Tartu Regional Energy Agency
Work Package 5
Transnational policy learning
- Focus and aim: Establishment of political support to ensure the implementation and anchoring of the project results in existing policy frameworks at local, regional and international levels as well as across sectors or administrative borders.
- Key activities and outputs:
The activities in WP 5 will lead to the following main outputs:- Position paper with recommendations: The partners will organise workshops with local policy makers as well as transnational workshops with experts from the energy field to discuss key issues of implementing energy transition in Baltic Sea Region cities. They will produce recommendations on policy improvements for energy efficiency.
- Dissemination strategy: The partners will produce a long-term strategy for communication of project activities and dissemination of project outputs to the main target groups at local, national and European level.
- Responsible partner: City of Tampere