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Jul 27th, 2010 by aline
Members present in Tirano at RURENER meeting in March 2010 signed the summary version of the Charter. You can see this poster on the wall when visiting a RURENER member!
Poster of Rurener's Charter
Jul 5th, 2010 by aleksandra
May 9th, 2010
Dolo, Via Brenta Bassa 34-30031 (Venice)
Meeting
Landscape Authorisations
Legal framework concerning Landscape Authorizations. The sanctions’ regime and the assessment of landscape compatibilità. Analysis of the role of Munnicipalities.
The meeting was attended by professionals employed by Construction and City Planning Officies of Municipalities, as well as individuals interested in the topics.
The RURENER project was presented to all participants, and especially to the representatives of Municipalities, in order to disseminate information concerning the aims and the activities of the project.
Jul 5th, 2010 by aleksandra
The Rurener Project in a glance.
Have a look to the PDF format Posters available in seven languages:
To learn more download the flyer of the project:
Jun 3rd, 2010 by aleksandra
May 19th, 2010 by andrea
At the launch conference of a strategic new EU project in Kiel, Germany, on 28th April, 14 project partners debated how they and other regions can play their part in global climate action and a securer energy supply. “RENREN”, the Renewable ENergy REgions Network, is investigating how regional governments can help accelerate a shift towards renewable energy and so support EU aspirations for a greener, cleaner energy future.
German Land Schleswig-Holstein is leading the network’s activities, which are supported by the EU INTERREG IVC programme. Between 2010 and 2012, the total budget is €2.16 million with a €1.65 million EU contribution. RENREN project manager Wolfgang Schulz said, “We expect to learn a lot from each other over the next 3 years. The aim is to identify policy choices to improve regional frameworks for renewable energy expansion. We’ll explore the enabling conditions for renewables that regions can influence, and how these can be fine-tuned to support different technologies, such as wind, biomass or solar.”
The outputs of workshops, field trips and studies will be made available to a wider audience of stakeholders through a series of events and a website www.renren-project.eu. The network will draw up policy guidelines so that the findings can be easily transferred into regional policy-making across Europe.
Regions represented in the project are: Schleswig Holstein in Germany; Wales, Jamtland in Sweden; Westfjords in Iceland; Cyprus; Navarre in Spain; Castilla y Leon in Spain; Pays de la Loire in France; Timis in Romania; Lodz in Poland; Usti in the Czech Republic; Central Macedonia in Greece; Andalusia in Spain; and North Hungary, Hungary.
May 3rd, 2010 by wiebke
One highlight of the RURENER European conference on March 1o/11th in Tirano, was the signing of the charter by the 14 mayors or their representatives of the pilot communities. The Italian partners organised the meeting for partners, pilots, other interested small rural communities as well as national and European decision makers. The RURENER project was introduced, some best practises where demonstrated, information about funding options was given, and a lot of discussion took place during workshops, coffee breaks, round tables and site visits about European Energy policy and local action in rural areas. Continue Reading »
Apr 19th, 2010 by kostas
A join event of four EU co-financed projects supported by the Intelligent Energy for Europe – IEE programme (BIORES, BiG>East, BIOGAS ACCEPTED and RE-WISE) took place on the 24th of March 2010 in Brussels. The main aim of the event was to increase the awareness and exchange knowledge between the participants and the above mentioned projects concerning further biogas exploitation across Europe.
During the Conference which was one of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2010 events in Brussels the Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES) representative Mr. Konstantinos Sioulas (CRES participates in BiG>East but also to RURENER project) had the chance to discuss with the participants and briefly present the RURENER network aims and achievements so far.
The fact that biogas exploitation in rural and agricultural areas can play a significant role toward neutrality and stronger penetration of renewable sources at local level was pointed out. A copy of the first RURENER newsletter was also available for further acquaintance with the network.
For further information on biogas exploitation opportunities and the Conference presentaiton and round table discussion you can visit the projects web-sites:
• BIORES www.biores.eu,
• BiG>East www.big-east.eu,
• BIOGAS ACCEPTED www.biogasaccepted.eu, and
• RE-WISE www.re-wise.org
Mar 16th, 2010 by aline
RURENER project will hold a morning debate in Brussels on the 23rd of March to interact with Members of Parliaments, European Commissions representatives, European representations and Networks.
Find more information and subscribe here! registration to RURENER morning debate in Brussels
Mar 2nd, 2010 by xaro
On February 2010 the 5th took place in Atzeneta’s town hall a workshop with the local stackeholders for promotion of sustainable criteria in the production and consumption of renewable energy with a rural and contextual approach .
The principal goal of the workshop was to share information about the State-Of-Art-Technologies and Best Practices involving the civil society in the energetic policies that from the municipality are planned.
We invite all the existing associations in the zone, educational center of the population, agro businessmen, agricultural cooperatives, services companies, and neighboring from others municipalities.
The assistance was numerous and very varied, we will distinguish a high participation of the interest group involved: tenagers, womens, and citzens in general, also workers from the local cooperative and some farmers and livestocks associates and from the local primary school both parents and teachers.
We present the Rurener Project, as project that stirs into action the networks) of small populations to be able to face to his energetic sustainability and the high participation from Intercoop as leader of the project in Spain like Atzeneta as pilot zone.
Later on we report of the current situation of the obtaining of energy from the vision of the animal-agricultural farmers . We share topics about biomass cotreatments with or energetic crops, biogas with animal manures, and solar photovoltaic in covers.
The point of view of planning inside a municipality relied on a presentation of attitudes that it is necessary to have as citizen and the projects focused in the context hall applying this one and thinking to apply for the energetic municipal expense cost reduction.
For the workshop several stakeholders from different regional institutions were taking part, Intercoop as rural, agricultural , and services cooperative group commited in the rural context, the Technological University of the Valencian Region-UPV, the Center of Agricutural Research-IVIA of the Region and the Mayor of the Municipality.
Some conclussion about the workshop: few proposals that already they are working. In collaboration with the network of sustainable populations of Castellón Province a series of solar fotovoltaic panels will be exposed on make conceited to be visited by the public in general but orientated overcoat to the school center students.
Also a proposal was funding a sustanaible project orientates for heating-and-coling (thermal recovery) of the school by means of renewable energies with organic wastes avalaible in the munipality.
Feb 28th, 2010 by admin
What is evaluation about?
To know how successful your local energy policy is you need to evaluate the impacts it may have on energy saving, energy neutrality and your community’s sustainable development.
Evaluation particularly with respect to local sustainable development is a complex process, as it requires a lot of information and different tools to assess different types of impacts, such as environmental, social, economic and institutional. In order to facilitate improvements and results accounting it, evaluation needs to be performed at different stages, that is when you set up your local energy plan ( ex ante evaluation), while you are implementing your local energy plan (on going evaluation) and when you have completed your local energy plan (ex post evaluation).
To help you with your evaluation process RURENER has created a dedicated, user-friendly tool which you can use with little adjustment for ex ante, on going and ex post evaluations. So don’t wait to start measuring the impacts of your local action plan to check how successful your local energy policy is!
The RURENER project
is financed by the IEE (Intelligent Energy Europe) programme on behalf of the European Commission. This
programme is managed by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI).
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