
AREA 21 Partner Meeting in Hamburg: How do education campaigns and new technologies contribute to energy efficiency?
AREA 21 gathered for its combined project meeting and study visit at a sustainability education center in the heart of Wandsbek District, north of Hamburg. The center facilitates community programs to ...

Online energy benchmarking tool launched in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
The Kohtla-Järve City Government and the Tartu Regional Energy Agency launched an online energy benchmarking tool for housing called “Energiamonitor”. The tool stores, calculates and analyses a building’s energy consumption and costs, which informs ...

Visioning for Wieniawa EID, Lublin: Alignment of different perspectives along common goals
On the 24th April 2019, representatives of housing cooperatives, enterprises, NGOs, educational institutions and other interested entities operating in Wieniawa District in Lublin, convened to discuss the ...

Kick-off event for the "Integrated climate protection concept for Wandsbek"
Hamburg has been engaged in climate protection initiatives for many years now and is very aware of its global responsibility as a major city. Its declared goal: Hamburg is to become a Climate Smart City. With this in mind, the Hamburg Climate Plan includes ...

An AREA 21 Report on Good Practice ICT tools in Energy Planning
How can new technologies support the involvement of building owners and users in energy planning processes? And, which technologies for energy monitoring are available on the market and bring significant change in energy consumption patterns?

Urban energy efficiency and consumer habits: the case of Wieniawa (Lublin City, Poland)
A study of the AREA 21 partners from Lublin about heat and electricity consumption habits in the local Energy Improvement District reveals interesting results and points at potentials for improved efficiency – in particular when it comes to heat consumption. In the district ...

AREA 21 Visit to Tampere and its Inspiring Energy Efficient Districts
AREA 21 representatives from the cities of Hamburg, Helsingborg, Kohtla-Järve, Lublin, St. Petersburg and Tartu came together for their mid-term project meeting in Tampere, Finland, from 11-13 March 2019. The meeting provided a lively platform for AREA 21 project discussions on stakeholder ...

The City of Helsingborg introduces a new Climate and Energy Plan to become climate neutral by 2035
The City Council of Helsingborg has approved a new ambitious Climate and Energy Plan targeting climate neutrality already in the year 2035. This target involves all activities present within municipality boundaries, companies, ...

Fourth transnational project meeting of AREA 21 in Tampere (Finland) coming up
AREA 21 partners will come together from the 11th - 13th March 2019 for their fourth international project meeting in Tampere, Finland. The event provides another valuable opportunity for partners to be inspired and flourish in their ideas through the collective ...

Working on energy in the heart of Lublin City: local cooperation processes gain momentum
In our partner city Lublin, the first of at least three local workshops was held on 12 December at the Mayor’s Offices. Representatives of public administration, building stock management, schools and kindergartens as well as the ...