PRESS RELEASE Meeting of the BENEFIT Project, held on December 11, 2019, in Bitola.

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Meeting of the BENEFIT Project in Bitola.

On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, the semi-annual meeting of the European Cross-Border project BENEFIT, co-funded by Interreg Greece – FYROM, took place in Bitola. The event was held at the Millennium Hotel in Bitola.

The meeting was opened by the project coordinator, Dr. Ioannis Kotziampasis, Deputy Supervisor at the Ministry of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace Region), welcoming the partners of the BENEFIT project, “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings.” Following that, a representative from the Bitola Municipality welcomed all the partners.

Subsequently, the project partners presented the progress of the work packages for which they are responsible and discussed the project’s trajectory. The project partners come from Greece, specifically:

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

From FYROM, specifically:

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

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 addresses 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 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 modernization design.

This action is part of the project “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings,” acronym “BENEFIT,” co-funded by the European Union and National funds of Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia 2014-2020, under 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”.