Funded Projects 2014-2020
Project GREENER
| Project Acronym | GREENER |
|---|---|
| Project Title | Clustering remote regions for energy resilience and growth |
| Project subsite |
Summary
Sustainable energy provision has become a fundamental priority in the agenda of NPA regions. The impact that climate change has on the reliability and performance of energy systems, joined with factors like peripherality, low population density, sparse settlements, migration, extreme climates, distances, accessibility, and over reliance on fossil fuels, has resulted in comparatively higher energy costs for domestic, business and public consumers with a consequential adverse impact on economic competitiveness.
The GREENER project addresses these challenges by clustering 3 NPA projects (SMARCTIC, LECo and h-CHP) that will use their collective capacity and complementarity to increase awareness, gain critical mass, and transfer knowledge about the latest energy solutions to public authorities, communities and businesses across the NPA. The project brings together Lead Partners from 3 NPA projects, who have complementary skill sets and address similar themes and territorial challenges.
The partnership consists of 1 EU network, 7 knowledge centres, 5 municipalities, 4 regional authorities, 3 energy agencies, 2 community energy cooperatives, and 1 economic development agency, who are all end users and/or have direct links to the end users. The partners will optimise collaboration initiatives to connect end users across regions and increase transnational cooperation. GREENER will establish a critical mass of energy efficient and renewable solutions.
An integrated approach to dissemination will achieve wider implementation and increased scalability of energy efficient resources in housing and public infrastructures across the NPA Programme area. This maximizes the transnational impact on local-level end user groups by widening the scope for transnational cooperation to other beneficiaries.
Objectives
Directory of innovative energy solutions across the NPA area
Combine innovative energy solutions and good practices from 3 complementary NPA projects that can be transferred to housing and public infrastructures, suitable for cold climates and dispersed settlements, in remote and sparsely populated areas.
Increase outreach
Disseminate the innovative energy solutions across a wider geographic area, to increase their uptake, by combining the resources of 3 projects.
Build strong lasting network
Build a strong and lasting network of key beneficiaries that continues to cooperate into the future to increase the awareness of transnational added value and the potential for transnational cooperation.
Lead Partner
- European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology (ERNACT)
Ireland
Anne Marie Mc Laughlin
e-mail: annemarie.mclaughlin@ernact.eu
Partners
- CENTRIA University of Applied Sciences
Finland - Oulu University
Finland
Project Info
| Theme Renewable energy, eco products |
| Priority 3 Renewables and Energy Efficiency |
| Objective 3 Increased use of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions |
| Project duration 01-07-21 to 30-06-22 |
| Total budget 152 651 EUR |
| NPA co-financing 99 223 EUR |
| Target groups local public authority regional public authority sectoral agency higher education and research enterprise, including SME General public |
| Joint Secretariat Desk Officer Kalle Pakalèn |