Funded Projects 2014-2020
Project HEATER
| Project Acronym | HEATER |
|---|---|
| Project Title | Heat and Energy Education and Empowerment for Rural Areas |
| Project subsite |
Summary
HEATER is a cluster of projects with synergies across HANDIHEAT, SMARTRenew, TechSolns, SENDoc and eLightHouse.
The partnership with WiSAR Lab, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (SMARTRenew project), Ulster University (SENDoc/TechSolns), Oulu University of Applied Sciences and HANDIHEAT, Northern Ireland Housing Executive aims to collaborate and cluster the transnational outputs from previous projects to educate and empower local communities to effect positive behavioural change and inform decision makers to influence policy across climate change mitigation and adaptation and sustaining communities.
Clustering allows the four lead partners to collaborate and maximise transnational impact of existing outputs to local communities and decision makers through a sustainable and enduring network with the aim to virtually educate and empower communities and decision makers.
The HEATER project will deliver this by establishing an enduring network, with regional hubs through either academic or regional authorities, utilising the array of full and associate partners from previous projects. This network will disseminate the best of project outputs to every settlement and locality across the regions with the focus to educate and empower local communities and inform decision makers of the transnational learning from previous projects.
The delivery method will utilise virtual knowledge sharing through a campaign of webinars, workshops, and a final conference. The target audience will be an array of end user groupings, such as householders, young people, estates managers, housing authorities, SMEs, and decision makers.
Objectives
Develop a network across local communities in NPA regions to disseminate best practice from the key outputs of LP previous projects
Using the array of partners across the previous projects partnerships establish a network to enable collaboration initiatives that connect local communities across regions.
Assimilate all the project outputs from previous NPA projects across the partnership
Through shared knowledge and expertise, explore and maximise the transferring of technical and innovative projects outputs to empower rural communities across the northern periphery region.
Virtual Transnational knowledge education and empowerment using the collated resources of the previous projects, via the medium of the established network.
With the cluster of a suite of learning material to educate, signpost, highlight best practice, with the endstate to empower local communities to reduce their energy demand, avail of incentives for energy efficiency and decarbonised heating.
Lead Partner
- Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE)
Northern Ireland
Robert Clements
phone robert.clements@nihe.gov.uk
e-mail: +442890318781
Partners
- Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Ireland - Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Finland - Ulster University (NI)
Coleraine
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 153 846 EUR |
| NPA co-financing 100 000 EUR |
| Target groups local public authority national public authority interest groups including NGOs higher education and research education/training centre and school General public |
| Joint Secretariat Desk Officer Kalle Pakalèn |