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IN-PLAN is a proud member of the Sister Matrix Group — a vibrant community of projects under the LIFE-LOCAL program, working together to advance the Clean Energy Transition (CET) across Europe.
This dynamic networking initiative brings together EU-funded projects with shared goals, encouraging active collaboration, knowledge exchange, and mutual support. By participating in joint activities, Sister Projects benefit from valuable synergies, avoid duplication of efforts, and amplify their impact on local and regional energy planning.
Explore the projects we’re working alongside below — click on each logo to learn more about their work!
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.
Plan4CET will directly assist three EU regions — Navarra (Spain), Skåne (Sweden), and Emilia-Romagna (Italy) — through pilot initiatives that strengthen their Climate and Sustainable Energy Action Plans. These pilots will serve as models for broader replication across Europe. The project is led by a consortium of local and regional public authorities and supporting entities.
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.
The Step-WISE project is a tailored and dynamic capacity-building programme to transform local and regional authorities into autonomous early adopters of digitised, integrated, and ambitious Clean Energy Transition Plans. Step-WISE, co-funded by the European Union, started in December 2023 and will last 2.5 years.
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.
RENOVERTY fosters energy efficiency building upgrades in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)/Southeastern Europe (SEE) countries, as well as Southern European countries (SE), by setting the methodological and practical frame to build renovation roadmaps of vulnerable rural districts in a financially viable and socially just manner. The project designs operating single or multi-household roadmaps for rural areas, and a scalable model to ensure the wide geographically replicability and take-up of the roadmaps, at both the CEE/SEE and SE regions and scale it up for the entire EU.
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.
NECPlatform works at strengthening multilevel governance in national energy and climate policies. This project supports six EU Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, and Romania) in setting up and managing permanent multi-level Climate and Energy Dialogue (CED) Platforms, as mandated by Article 11 of the Governance Regulation. These dialogues will help foster vertical and horizontal integration of energy and climate policies.
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.
Bringing Local and Regional municipalities towards owning their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan – SECAP. The aim of Own Your SECAP project is to directly engage municipalities to develop or upgrade their Sustainable Energy Climate Action Plan – SECAP with ambitious targets of climate neutrality in 2050 and highlight measures that have double (mitigation and adaptation) and triple effects (mitigation, adaptation, and energy poverty).
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.
Co-funded by the European Union under project ID 101076428.
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