IN-PLAN / Sister Projects Cooperation

ENTRACK, an EU-funded project, accelerates climate neutrality in eight Mediterranean municipalities by enhancing local energy policy capacities. Supporting the European Green Deal, the project focuses on reducing fossil fuel reliance and equipping local authorities to develop and implement social energy policies that meet the specific needs of vulnerable communities. Key objectives include improving policymaker capacity, aligning governance, and advancing sustainable energy goals.

The RURALITIES project promotes sustainable rural development through innovative training hubs across Europe and Africa. These hubs leverage learner-centered methodologies, living labs, and digital platforms to connect communities and foster innovation. With over 1,000 facilitators planned across seven demonstration sites in Italy, the UK, Slovenia, Spain, and Romania, RURALITIES builds a resilient framework for rural expertise and climate-smart practices. Collaborating with local authorities, the project drives rural innovation and shapes policies for thriving rural ecosystems.

LOCAL GoGREEN empowers local authorities to accelerate the Clean Energy Transition and achieve the 2030 targets through short and medium-term plans. The project focuses on capacity building, participatory decision-making, and collaborative actions to design and implement integrated climate and energy plans. With 8 partners from 7 EU countries and 6 pilot projects in different countries, LOCAL GoGREEN establishes a transnational ecosystem of knowledge sharing, paving the way for sustainable energy communities.

EasyPro is an EU-funded project that makes Irish universities carbon neutral through Energy Performance Contracting (EPCs). EasyPro is developing a tailored, straightforward and inexpensive EPC Facilitation Service and procurement framework, which will be implemented at four Irish universities: University College Cork, Technological University Dublin, Maynooth University and Dublin City University. The project was formed in response to the EU objective of transitioning to a clean energy system and the Irish Government’s Climate Action Plan, and will run from July 2024 to August 2027.

RECET aims to support and enhance administrations’ and stakeholders’ capacity in rural regions to play a strong role in accelerating the green transition, while ensuring local acceptance.

REGIO 1st raises awareness about the Energy Efficiency First principle (EE1st) among regional governments and their agencies and supports them to make related decisions in their planning. It does so through the provision of appropriate guidance to regional authorities to embed the EE1st principle in their decisions and in the implementation of their energy plans departing from six participant regions and expanding to over 100 regions in the EU. It establishes a community of practice for EE1st in cooperation with the Covenant of Mayors to ensure political commitment of regional authorities and strengthens the enforcement of the Multilevel Climate and Energy Dialogue provision, with particular focus on ownership and acceptance of the principle from stakeholders at all levels.