SUSTAINCO

The project Sustainable Energy for Rural Communities SUSTAINCO aims to support the EU vision for the energy performance of buildings. The project will build capacity within the partner countries through exposure to best practice of to design and retrofitting of buildings.

The project builds on the successful experience from the CONCERTO project SERVE. The main aim of SUSTAINCO is to increase the visibility of front-runners, for both new build and renovation.

SUSTAINCO will directly select and facilitate development of 8 high profile proposed NZEB projects (1 per each participating region) and also provide support to 50 NZEB projects as follow ups to already launched pilot projects. The project will also provide training of key market actors, policy makers and also an extensive information campaign to rural communities' citizens. Another important aspect of SUSTAINCO project is the focus on rural communities, which are often neglected in implementing European or national schemes or programmes. Through the development of this capacity within the partner regions engagement of rural regions in the Covenant of Mayors will be facilitated.

Partners:

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  Partners| SUSTAINCO project (IEE)

Duration: 04/04/2012 to 03/04/2015

Overall budget: 1,479,041 € (EU contribution: 75,00 %)

Website: http://www.sustainco.info/