REACH – Reduce Energy use And Change Habits

Final project report

Final project report is available here.

National situation in the field of energy poverty for:

Energy poverty in the project pilot areas:

Sustainability strategies of the project in the pilot areas:

Training of partners

Training of teachers and students

Bulgaria: needs assessment for training and proceedings of the first and second training for energy advisers (in Bulgarian only)
Croatia: needs assessment for training and proceedings of the first and the second training for energy advisers (in Croatian only)
Macedonia: needs assessment for training and proceeding of the first and the second training for energy advisers (in Macedonian only)
Slovenia: needs assessment for training (in Slovenian only) and proceedings of first and second training of energy advisers in Zasavje and first and second training in Pomurje region (in Slovenian only)

Training course for energy advisers

Materials for working with local actors

Materials for working with households

Presentations of the project’s kick-off event Sharing EU know-how on energy poverty:

Approaches to tackling energy poverty at practical level in Germany by Barbara Kalker from Caritas Frankfurt
Approaches to tackling energy poverty at practical level in Hungary by Zsuzsanna Kiraly from Energy Club
Approaches to tackling energy poverty at practical level in Bulgaria by Vasil Zlatev from Energy Agency Plovdiv
Approaches to tackling energy poverty at structural level by Lara Blake from Internal Market III: Retail markets; coal & oil, Directorate-General for Energy.
Specifics of energy poverty in the Balkans by Stefan Buzarovski, Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at University of Manchester
Definitions and dimensions of energy poverty in Europe by Brenda Boardman of Environmental Change Institute at University of Oxford

Materials for working with policy- and decision-makers

National policy recommendations for Bulgaria (in English) , Croatia (in Croatian), Slovenia (in Slovenian), and Macedonia (in Macedonian)
SEE and EU policy recommendations – Energy poverty in South-East Europe: challenges and possible solutions (in English)
Evaluation framework for advocacy activities and evaluation report for advocacy work in Slovenia
Bringing REACH visits to national level: the case of Slovenia
Proceedings of high-level debates and events in Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and in the European Parliament
Reports on national level advocacy activities in Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Slovenia
Report on EU level advocacy activities

Project promotion materials

Project publications