PRESS RELEASE Kick-off Meeting of the BENEFIT Project, held on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Thessaloniki.

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Kick-off Meeting of the BENEFIT Project.

On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, the opening meeting of the European Cross-Border project BENEFIT, co-financed by Interreg Greece-FYROM, took place in Thessaloniki. The event was held at the Ypsilon venue in Thessaloniki.

The opening meeting was initiated by Dr. Ioannis Kotziampasis, Project Manager, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace Department), who welcomed the partners and then presented the BENEFIT project, “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings.

Subsequently, the project partners presented the work packages for which they are responsible and discussed the progress of the project.

The project partners are from Greece, specifically:

 

  1. Ministry of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace Department)
  2. Center for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES)
  3. Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia

From FYROM (North Macedonia), specifically:

  1. Municipality of Bitola
  2. Public Enterprise for Urban and Architectural Design

Representatives from the Managing Authority also attended the meeting.

 

 

Key information about the project:

The BENEFIT project aims to address the increasing demand for improving the energy efficiency 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 to address are: (a) addressing the inadequacy of public administrations in this area, (b) developing reliable, efficient, and effective energy action plans for public buildings, (c) enhancing experience in implementing advanced energy modeling methodologies, (d) facilitating the collection of energy data for buildings, (e) enriching knowledge through the application of specialized methodological tools for classifying buildings into typologies, and (f) developing a specialized decision support system for energy retrofit design.

The action is part of the project “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings” acronym BENEFIT, co-financed 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 “Greece-FYROM 2014-2020” Program.

 

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”.