Transnational Trainings

Aims and objectives

The transnational trainings aim at disseminating at mid-term the project results to an external audience and allow for an exchange of experiences with cities that are not project partners but facing similar challenges. 

Major emphasis is placed on promoting integrated sustainable development concepts at urban district level. The trainings will be practically oriented and sensitise the participants for energy efficient urban development. They will disseminate the partners’ best practice identified, the experience gained through the pilot projects, and the methods jointly developed.

Target groups

• Representatives of local authorities from Central Europe,
• Politicians at regional and national level,
• Representatives of associations, federations etc. involved in the subject

Date, location and languages

The one-day trainings will take place on

22/02/2012 in Budapest (HU)

06/03/2012 in Padua (I)

09/03/2012 in Berlin (D) and 

19/03/2012 in Kranj (SI).

Conference language will in any case be the language of the hosting partner.

More information and registration

For further information or registration for a training, please feel free to send an e-mail to projectmanagement (at) ensure-project.eu.

3rd Partner Meeting in Kranj/Slovenia

On 28th-30th September 2011, 27 EnSURE representatives met in Slovenia to share their knowledge on energetic rehabilitation and sustainable urban development. The EnSURE partnership, consisting of municipalities, development agencies and research institutes from Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovenia held their third Partner Meeting in the city of Kranj near Ljubljana.

Main topic of the meeting was the organisation of four trainings that will be offered for a wider public in March 2012. At the trainings, the partnership will present best practice and methods that have jointly been developed. Major emphasis is placed on promoting integrated sustainable development concepts at urban district level. The trainings shall sensitise an external audience for energy efficient urban development and allow for an exchange of experience with cities facing similar challenges. 

The one-day trainings will take place in Berlin (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Padova (Italy) and Kranj (Slovenia). Conference language will in each case be the language of the hosting partner. Participants shall be invited among representatives of local authorities from Central Europe, politicians at regional and national level, representatives of associations, federations etc. involved in the subject.

Next step in sharing the partnership’s knowledge and experience will be the creation of a network of Energy Info Points. Seven Info Points in five Central European countries will be set up and linked to a network, imparting know-how of energetic rehabilitation, the wider use of renewable energies, and financial instruments available. Three info points have already started up, four more will be set up by 2012 and be open for citizens, property owners and investors, but also politicians and representatives of public administrations and associations.

Other topics treated at the Partner Meeting were the energetic rehabilitation of the housing stock, public buildings and business premises and the development of indicatores for the evaluation of projects improving energy efficiency.

2nd Partner Meeting in Genoa

The second partner meeting of the EnSURE project took place in Genoa on February 10th and 11th 2011.

The partners meet for an informal get-together on Wednesday evening in the nice old town of Genoa, near the Palazzo Ducale where the partners were introduced into the typical focaccia genovese, a famous dish form the region.

On Thursday, the official start of the meeting took place at the “desk renewable energies of the Province of Genoa”, located in the Palazzina Santa Maria, Porto Antico. The host of the event, represented by Mrs. Angela Rollando, Director of the Development Agency GAL Genovese, welcomed the EnSURE partners to the transnational partner meeting in Genoa.

The Lead Partner, represented by Ms. Sandra Kölmel, from the department for sustainable urban development of the municipality of Ludwigsburg, gives the opening speech and introduced the agenda of the two-days meeting.

At the beginning, a review on the recent activities since the last partner meeting in Debrecen was presented by each partner.

In the morning also the desk renewable energies of the Province of Genoa, was officially opened by the President of Province of Genoa, Mr Alessandro Repetto. The desk renewable energies (“energy info point”) was one of the outputs of the EnSURE project. A press conference was organised as well. Please find more information about the opening event on the media section on our website.

Dr. Claudia Bissacco, from the Agenda21 was providing the summary and findings of their analysis of previous activities and experiences of the EnSURE partners in the field of transnational cooperation, urban development and energy related projects.

In the afternoon the partners were invited to join a working group sessions, led by members of the scientific advisory team. They were continuing their discussion about a joint transnational energy concept at district level, after a short introduction of the results achieved so far.

Afterwards Mr. Richárd Ongjerth, director of the Hungarian Urban Knowledge Centre (MUT), concluded the first day of the meeting by his presentation about the requirements and examples of the SEAP - Sustainable Energy Action Plans, which is a prerequisite to join the “Covenant of Mayors”. Several partners are going to joint the Covenant of Mayors within the EnSURE project.

The meeting of the steering and communication board opened the second day of the meeting, followed by management and communication matters, presented by the external project management.

Dr. Annamária Orbán, from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics presented scientific and practical input about the setting-up of a strategic dialogue process. The partners were discussing in working groups about the development of a participation strategy to activate relevant local stakeholders to join the EnSURE planning and implementation process.

Dr. János Kocsis from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department

of Sociology and Communication, presented the upcoming transnational activities, here the “Compendium on national framework conditions”.

The meeting was closed with the feedback of the partners on the results of the meeting.

EnSURE Partner Meetings and Trainings