PRESS RELEASE Meeting of the BENEFIT Project, held on July 19, 2021, in Thessaloniki.

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Meeting of the BENEFIT Project in Bitola.

On Monday, July 19, 2021, the Technical Meeting of the European Cross-Border project BENEFIT took place in Thessaloniki after a long period of time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with all necessary safety measures to prevent the spread of the virus. The event was held at the outdoor space of the restaurant AFANGATE in Thessaloniki.

The meeting was opened by Dr. Ioannis Kotziampasis, Project Manager, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace Department), welcoming the partners of the BENEFIT project “Improving Energy Efficiency: Demonstration in Public Buildings”, co-financed by Interreg Greece-North Macedonia. The Mayor of the Municipality of Bitola also attended the meeting and delivered a welcome speech to the partners.

Subsequently, the project partners presented the progress made in their respective work packages and discussed the project’s trajectory. The project partners are from Greece, specifically:

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

And from North Macedonia:

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

 

Representatives from the Municipality of Thessaloniki also attended the meeting, where the deliverable regarding the mapping of municipal buildings was discussed.

Basic 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 include: (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 applying 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 special decision support system for designing energy modernizations.

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 under the Interreg IPA-CBC Program “Greece-North Macedonia 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”.