BUILD UP Webinar - The clean energy transition for buildings: Professional associations enhancing renovation skills
Our Vice-Chair Alice Corovessi (Managing Director of our Greek national partner INZEB) moderates a panel discussion at the BUILD UP webinar “The clean energy transition for buildings: Professional associations enhancing renovation skills.”
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C4E Forum Webinar - Empowering Central and Eastern Europe through Energy Efficiency: Navigating Energy Security, Fit-for-55, and Rebuilding Ukraine
Revisit our webinar “Empowering Central and Eastern Europe through Energy Efficiency” to get a preview of the exciting topics that will be covered at the C4E Forum conference in Šamorín, Slovakia on May 23-26, 2023.
REDay2022 - Eyes on the Horizon: Renovating our Buildings to REPower the EU
The REDay2022 High-level Conference took place in the European Parliament co-hosted by the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) Rapporteur Ciarán Cuffe (Greens/EFA, Ireland) and was also streamed online on the 27th of October.
The event was divided in two sessions. The first focused on the ongoing EPBD recast and the importance that a tool such as Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) play (read the joint letter co-signed by Renovate Europe encouraging ambitious MEPS here). The second took a look on how we can finance the Renovation Wave, both through public funds-based mechanisms, as well as private capital and bank schemes.
Launching the EU Renovation Loan
On November 3rd our EU Level Supporting Partner Climate Strategy & Partners hold a webinar to launch its latest report concerning the European Renovation Loan (ERL).
Combining existing financial elements and components and joining them together in a new instrument designed to deliver finance at the EU Renovation Wave scale, the ERL has the potential to fill the private financing gap and address over 50 million EU homeowners.
The report aims at tackling three key elements:
- Identifying the right 50 million homeowners.
- Designing the EU Renovation Loan to fill the identified gap.
- Implementing the right enabling framework to ensure ERL’s success.
Renovating Europe's buildings: opportunities for workforce upskilling in cohesion funding (#EURegionsWeek 2022)
Reducing energy demand is the sustainable answer to protect citizens against rising energy prices. To deliver on massive energy renovation programmes required to secure such energy-saving gains we need a much greater focus on workforce upskilling. This session, co-organised by Renovate Europe, E3G and the EFBWW, will focus on the needs of today’s workforce in terms of building renovations and will highlight funding opportunities in the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2021-2027 to help regions and cities step up to the challenge.
Moderator: Adrian Joyce, Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign
Speakers:
- Luis Galiano Bastarrica, Policy Assistant for Climate and Energy Policies at DG REGIO G.1 “Smart and Sustainable Growth”
- Rolf Gehring, Political Secretary of the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW)
- Vilislava Ivanova, Senior Researcher at E3G
Skills through the multi-annual financial framework: building renovation in the Mediterranean area
A trained workforce and skilled public administration will be essential to support the drive to a highly energy efficient building stock, in line with EU climate neutrality goals. This 90-minute online conversation, that we co-organised with Energy Cities (representing the Interreg MED Efficient Buildings Community) and EFBWW, informs EU, national and regional stakeholders on how to maximise current opportunities to increase the availability of a qualified workforce for energy renovations, particularly for public buildings.
It looks at the importance of skills and training as a pre-requisite for rolling out successful renovation schemes on the ground. We explore how to make the most of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework 2021-2027 for upskilling workers as well as local stakeholders and administration with the aim of boosting the rate and depth of energy renovation, particularly in the Mediterranean area (Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia and Spain).
Agenda
Welcome – Miriam Eisermann, Energy Cities
Panel 1: EU-level perspectives and opportunities on skills and training for energy renovation
- Introduction: Why workforce upskilling is so important to deliver renovation schemes – Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign
- Opportunities to boost skills in energy renovation through the Multi-Annual Financial Framework and Just Transition Fund (JTF) – Maeva Roulette, DG EMPL
- Needs, challenges and opportunities for upskilling the construction workforce on energy renovation – Rolf Gehring, EFBWW
- Insights from CINEA – Luca Angelino, CINEA
- Q&A moderated by Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign
Panel II: Upskilling of local stakeholders and administration for better buildings
- Introduction – Miriam Eisermann, Energy Cities
- Strengthening planning and management skills of public building owners
- Belinda Gottardi, Mayor of Castello Maggiore (Italy)
- Evangelos Evangelides, Mayor of Aradippou (Cyprus)
- Helder Gonçalves, Director of Portuguese National Energy Laboratory LNGE and national coordinator of BUILD UP Skills FORESEE
- Q&A moderated by Peter Schilken, Energy Cities
Wrap-up – Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign
End