Best practices

Exemplary projects and initiatives are implemented and replicated at local and regional level. The following best practices are categorised by topic and geographic area.

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Year

All Best Practices (365 items)

2016

Smart Islands Initiative in Greece

The Smart Initiative is a bottom-up effort of European island authorities and communities. It builds on years of collaboration between…

2015

New Passive University Building in Upper Austria region

The Anton Bruckner Private University, was built according to passive house standards, meets high requirements in terms of acoustics and…

2016

Zagreb Smart City Strategy

The main purpose of the Strategy is to determine the vision and strategic goals of the future development of smart…

2019

SIMPLA Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning: harmonising SEAPs and SUMPs

SIMPLA is the project for Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning that aims at empowering public authorities to develop and implement sustainable…

2016

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 100% Renewables

The new goal of the French Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is to cover all its energy consumption with renewable production, including…

2017

National Agreement for the energy transition of Catalonia

The National Agreement will establish, at least, the basic guidelines for action and the principles behind the future Catalan energy…

2021

CLIPPER project in the Asturias region

FAEN collaborates with the CLIPPER project which aims to support maritime industries to tackle Blue Growth challenges and energy transition…

2015

Energy Sustainability in the Basque Public Sector

The Basque Government approved the Decree 178/2015 on energy sustainability in the public sector, which sets up a policy package…

2018

The Plan of Adaptation to Climate Change of the Abruzzo region

The Region of Abruzzo has developed, in coordination with the main national and EU working groups of the field, the…

2018

Sustainable Tipp Programme in County Tipperary

Sustainable Tipp is the energy transformation of Tipperary’s housing, commercial, public and community buildings which offers an opportunity for communities,…

Paving the road of sustainable energy in the Alba County

The Alba Local Energy Agency, ALEA, strongly promoted the Covenant for Mayors initiative (CoM) launched in 2008, identified as a…

2020

A smart, sustainable and cost-efficient Distributed Lighting Management System in Mantua Province

LIFE-DIADEME project aims at establishing a smart and cost-efficient public lighting management system that substantially reduces energy consumption, CO2 emissions…

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