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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The Integrated Mobility Master Plan (IMMP) is a Turning Point for Transport Policy. The Government of Cyprus and the Local Authorities have the ambition to ameliorate the traffic situation, by increasing the share of Public Transport, Cycling and Walking and at the same time upgrading and completing the road network. The share of Public Transport Trips must be above 10% by the year 2020. In order to achieve these ambitious goals, a sustained effort must be made to implement a series of measures.
Read more >>Street lighting represents 10% of electricity demand in Madeira and 7% in Porto Santo and has a high potential for action to improve energy efficiency. Street lighting is managed by municipalities, which are organised in an association of municipalities. They are interested in reducing street lighting costs but do not have the financing capacity, because of high debt and crisis restrictions. The solution was to involve regional and municipal actors to discuss the problem.
Read more >>Targeting the enhance of the public transportation in Lefkosia Region and the efficient management of the traffic congestion, 10 urban Municipalities and the Ministry of Communication and works, Department of Public works, cooperates for the designing and the implementation of the ambitious project “Tram of Lefkosia”. There are no rail tracks existing at the moment in Cyprus and the success of this pioneer project depends on the successful multilevel governance cooperation between local authorities and central government administrations.
Read more >>The students of the Primary School of Lythrodontas decided to go one step further than other schools implementing the 50/50 concept – they decided to start recycling lamps.
Read more >>The Citizen Engagement Workshop was organized by AEGEA on Kythnos Island and was supported by the Municipality of Kythnos and DAFNI Network, in the framework of the WiseGRID project. For Kythnos the WiseGRID foresees setting up a state-of-the-art integrated electricity system.
Read more >>The Lower Austrian Photovoltaic-League awards a prize to communities that have the annual highest growth in photovoltaic (PV) capacity, in Lower Austria, Austria.
Read more >>6 primary schools over Cyprushave been undergoing free Energy Audits supported by the Cyprus Energy Agency which include interventions for energy and CO2 emissions savings in different levels, up to the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) level.
Read more >>The project ‘Energy and Climate Protection in Kindergartens’, run by BEA, is aimed at children between the ages of 4 and 6, preschool teachers and the technical staff of Berlin’s 2,200 kindergartens, Germany.
Read more >>A preliminary study for the charging infrastructure of the Jämtland Härjedalen region, Sweden, was requested to prepare for a project focusing on the expansion of rapid-charge stations and standard charging at organisations and companies.
Read more >>The Civitas DESTINATIONS project aims to promote sustainable mobility in six island destinations: Madeira, Gran Canaria, Elba, Crete, Malta and Cyprus.
Read more >>In the Örebro Region, Sweden, there is a common network to increase sustainable travel in the region which has created a toolbox for sustainable travel advice.
Read more >>In the frame of the EnerSHIFT H2020 project, investments of €5 million have been stimulated from European Structural Funds for the energy retrofitting of social housing buildings in the Italian region of Liguria.
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