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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Financing scheme for efficiency on street lighting, Madeira and Santo Porto, Portugal

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.

The Tram of wider Lefkosia Region, Cyprus

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.

Let’s recycle waste lamps in Cyprus!

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.

Citizen Engagement Worskhop in Kythnos

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.