Teacher's Experiential Development of Digital skills through the Young innovator's programme (TEDDY), takes place in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, with the climate crisis in the background. This Erasmus+ project focuses on the digital skills that secondary school teachers need and have developed over the course of the COVID-crisis. These skills are inventoried, selected and trained in an EIT Climate-KIC education programme, Young Innovators, currently running in a number of EU member states.We want to ask the question: how can we learn and iterate during these crisis times? The project involves the development of digital skills/competences of teachers and students through Young Innovators and the Big Ideas programme (UK): programmes that introduce students with system innovation and creating future scenarios through challenge-based learning. This requires the further integration of digital teacher training, tools and methods in these programmes.TEDDY aims to train teachers in the Young Innovators programme to work with digital tools in and after the pandemic. In this project, we will facilitate discussions and evaluations of teacher’s experiences with using digital tools in the classroom. Subsequently, we will use our lessons-learned to improve and strengthen the programme, make it more sustainable, future-proof and pandemic-proof. TEDDY will be a cooperation between four different countries in which the Young Innovators (or a comparable) programme is carried out. The duration of the project will be two years. We will facilitate a digital platform (SLACK) where discussions, the exchange of knowledge, and regular updates through blogs and vlogs from teachers and others involved with the programme will be monitored. On this platform, teachers will be stimulated to evaluate their experience and learn from each other. Through action-based research, we will explore together with teachers, students and actors from outside the classroom, how digital tools can improve education for sustainability through the Young Innovators programme and how these tools serve to connect students to the outside world. As a result, students can come up with creative solutions to solve the climate crisis, without leaving their classrooms or even their homes and subsequently initiate action and mobilize actors around them through digital platforms The project consists of three learning cycles. In the spring of 2021, the lessons learned on digital skills in the Young Innovators programmes in the participating countries are harvested and then used as a starting point for developing an approach for training and experiencing digital skills in the Young Innovators season in autumn 2021. In the spring of 2022, the results of the new approach are evaluated and used for improving the methodology. Early 2023, the results of the whole project will be evaluated and disseminated. During the project, there will be three physical, two-day gatherings. The actors from the four countries will come together in a central place that can be reached by train. This contributes to the image of a Green Recovery after COVID-19, and stimulates the idea that flying is not necessary anymore in a digital era. In these two-day gatherings, teachers’ experiences with using digital tools in the Young Innovators programme during COVID-19 will be evaluated and discussed. We will use a design-thinking inspired method of diverging and converging problems to come up with solutions. We will co-create digital tools and methods that help teach the Young Innovators programme in and after the COVID-19 crisis. In the end of the project, digital tools and methods will be fully integrated in the Young Innovators programme. Teachers will have learned how to adapt their teaching to the needs of the COVID-19 crisis by making optimal use of the digital tools available. The teachers of the Young Innovators programme will have been trained to use digital tools to keep their students involved and enthusiastic, and to stimulate creativity in new, innovative ways. The new knowledge about using digital tools will not only be useful for the Young Innovators programme, but for the development of Digital Education Readiness in general. Also, the results will strengthen the capabilities of educators to be resilient, adaptive and creative in times of crises.

LEMON "Less Energy More OpportuNities" focusses on energy investments in the Social Housing sector and involves 2 Housing Company of Emilia Romagna Region ACER Reggio Emilia and ACER Parma, launching 15,29 M€ of energy investments in 622 private and public social housing dwellings. The project will develop innovative, bankable and aggregated sustainable energy investment scheme based on the following aspects: - LEMON will be a pilot project for the Emilia Romagna Region Social Housing Programme, creating a new financing model for energy retrofit interventions and developing a EPC model contracts that will mobilize 15,29 million Euros of investments in social housing buildings energy retrofitting, in order to reduce the buildings energy demand. LEMON will support the investments combining different financing instruments available at National and Regional level (ERDF funds, National financing, National incentive “Conto termico” and loans) and in particularly it will charge part of the investment on the rents according to the reduced energy costs for the tenants. - LEMON will develop the Energy Performance Tenancy Agreement (EPTA). The contract between the tenants and the ACERs will ensure that a portion of the investments covered by ACER Reggio Emilia and ACER Parma with a loan is charged on the rents for as long as the loan is repaid, leveraging on the savings produced by the retrofit interventions.. The replication of the project will be based on a wide dissemination and capacity building strategy among the social housing companies at regional and national level, and also among other sectors (City councils, Provinces, Regional, public authorities, Groups that represent e.g. Local Government Association, National public authorities, Organisations working in the field of energy efficiency, ESCos, Companies) . The project results will be disseminate across Europe towards the EU networks Climate-Kic and Housing Europe.

save@work focusses on overcoming the barriers to energy saving practices in public office buildings and changing the behaviour of public sector employees at work place. A minimum of 9000 employees in at least 180 public office buildings (administrative buildings - municipal/regional or federal state operated) from nine countries will compete in a year-long energy saving contest to achieve the highest energy savings possible compared to the previous year. Throughout the competition participants will benefit from expert knowledge provided by the partners; a web-based Energy Saving Online Tool (feedback system) which helps to visualise actual energy consumption and savings made by each building; tailor made information and campaign materials and the exchange of experience with other participants. The energy saving competition between public office buildings is embedded in an energy quality management system: Analysis – Development of Measures – Implementation – Monitoring and Continuation, which ensures an individual, professional goal-oriented and sustainable approach for realising energy savings. It is projected that the project will lead to 13 GWh primary energy saved and 3,100 t of CO2 avoided in public buildings across Europe. Support from behavioural change experts and an accompanying evaluation of the implemented measures and results will help provide important insights useful for both project implementation as well as future initiatives in this field. Factors of success, barriers and the impact of the project in respect to mid- and long-term changes will be analysed. Project activities and results will be disseminated through a wide communication campaign to the public, as well as other stakeholders in public administrations and academic institutions. By providing a complete set of strategies and materials needed to replicate this project, our goal is to inspire others to follow our lead and develop energy efficient offices of the future.

The building sector is one of the major consumers of energy in Europe, responsible for 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions. Furthermore, Social Housing (SH) buildings show a critical state due to the lack of constant resources to upkeep and refurbish the existing stock and a long-term sound energy strategy (having to deal with emergencies). TIGER intends to improve the efficiency of SH by addressing the issues of the lack of funding and also contribute to tackling energy poverty which is a growing issue in Europe. Between 50 and 125M Europeans are unable to afford thermal comfort. The main aim of TIGER is the implementation of energy renovation interventions in SH buildings, expecting an investment over 16M€ through Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), with a simple payback period of 4 years. TIGER will engage over 1500 families living in 126 SH buildings, located in 58 municipalities in Abruzzo Region saving 8,7GWh/y of primary energy and reducing CO2 emissions of 1760tCO2/y, contributing to decarbonising the building stock. Further TIGER addresses energy poverty by improving energy efficiency, reducing energy consumptions and achieving adequate comfort levels. TIGER will develop an innovative model to be replicated and taken-up in different SH contexts. For the first time there will be a fully regional geographic approach- all 5 local SH operators will be engaged. Also the funding mechanism is innovative combining EPC with other financial instruments (ERDF, tax deductions, incentives, soft loan) in order to trigger investments by ESCOs. To properly deliver the setting-up of the investment scheme and the engagement and consensus of tenants, TIGER will appoint a PDA team including all technical and non-technical competencies and experiences (financial, technical and legal) and a capacity building programme for tenants will be set up to encourage vulnerable consumers to change their energy related behaviour.

Regional and local public authorities have a strong role to play in fighting energy poverty. That is why the overall objective of POWER UP! is for cities to go beyond their planning role and sustain the creation of local energy market players with a social agenda. This will be realised by the following 3 specific objectives: - Implement pilot schemes for households in energy poverty, so that they benefit from renewable energy production and energy efficiency measures, without having to bear the financial risks; - Develop and reinforce local energy market players with a social agenda, based on a long-term perspective to acquire local knowledge and strengthen the local economy; - Disseminate the experience of the consortium members to facilitate the replication in European countries. Four pilot schemes will be developed in five locations across Europe: Eeklo (Belgium), in the Campania area (Italy), in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (Czech Republic), and Valencia (Spain). These schemes will be co-created with energy-poor households and local stakeholders (cities, social organisations, energy utilities, citizen energy communities etc.), leading to at least 2,5 Million EUR investment in sustainable energy before the project ends and involving 58 333 energy poor consumers. Supported by a European city network, a leading UK university, a Belgium cooperative and finance experts, the consortium will build the capacity of more than 185 people in local organisations. This will allow these players to either provide cheap energy to fuel poor households, or reinvesting benefits to carry out energy poverty mitigation measures.