PRESS RELEASE Roundtable Meeting of the BENEFIT Project, held on Wednesday, July 3, 2019 in Thessaloniki.
Roundtable Meeting of the BENEFIT Project.
On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, a roundtable meeting took place in Thessaloniki within the framework of the European Cross-Border project BENEFIT, co-funded by Interreg Greece – FYROM. The event was held at the Holiday Inn hotel in Thessaloniki.
The meeting was opened by Dr. Ioannis Kotziampasis, Project Manager and Deputy Head of the Ministry of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace Region), welcoming the participants, and subsequently presenting the BENEFIT project “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings.”
Next, Ms. Eleni Chatzigeorgiou, representing the Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES), presented the technical actions of the BENEFIT project to support energy efficiency action plans in public buildings.
Ms. Ioanna Tsikoti, Deputy Head of the Department of Energy and Bioclimatic Design of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, presented the Municipality’s experience in implementing and monitoring actions in buildings within the framework of the Mayors’ Covenant.
Finally, Alice Korovesi, COO/CFO of the Institute of Zero Energy Consumption Buildings, invited by Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment, presented some examples and results of utilizing financial and other tools for the energy upgrading of public buildings in EU countries.
The meeting concluded with a discussion on the actions that Public Authorities can take to attract funding to achieve the energy upgrading of the extensive list of public buildings.
Basic information about the project:
The BENEFIT project aims to address the increasing demand for improving the energy performance of public buildings and transforming them into buildings with reduced or nearly zero energy consumption. The main common cross-border challenges that the BENEFIT project is called upon to address are: (a) addressing the inadequacy of public administrations in this field, (b) developing reliable, efficient, and effective energy action plans for public buildings, (c) enhancing experience in the implementation of advanced energy modeling methodologies, (d) facilitating the collection of energy data for buildings, (e) enriching knowledge through the application of specialized methodological tools for the classification of buildings into typologies, and (f) developing a special decision support system for the design of energy upgrades.
The action is part of the project “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings” acronym “BENEFIT,” co-funded by the European Union and National resources of Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia 2014-2020 within the framework of the Interreg IPA-CBC Program “Greece – FYROM 2014-2020”.
The BENEFIT project is co-funded by the European Union and national funds of the participating countries within the framework of the Interreg IPA-CBC Programme “Greece – Republic of North Macedonia”.
