EnerCmed Project Celebrates Success Promising First Year of Cross Border Innovation
EnerCmed initiative celebrates its first year of existence with the pleasure of celebrating another step forward in building climate resilience, energy transition and civil protection integration at the Mediterranean level. Currently, the project has assembled a vibrant and multidisciplinary consortium of collaborators that is passionately dedicated to co-creating solutions with as well as for local communities.
Co-financed by the Interreg Euro-MED Programme, EnerCmed seeks to improve the resilience of both urban and peri-urban areas through the corporate promotion of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), Self-Consumption Schemes and Nature Based Solutions (NBS) through the two key ingredients of mitigation of and adaptation to climate change and disaster risk. What makes EnerCmed different from the rest is its special focus: linking the energy transition with civil protection – two areas which have often been separate, but which now, more than ever, must work hand in hand to create sustainable, resilient and safe places for our citizens.
In its initial year of operation, EnerCmed has effectively established a groundwork for sustainable impact. Project partners from Italy, Spain, Croatia, Greece and Cyprus have been working closely with local stakeholders, carrying out detailed territorial analysis and initiating awareness-raising and capacity building actions. They have received interest in the collaboration from municipalities, universities, and civil society—and believe the project holds applicability and replicability to others.
At the deeper layers of the work, the project has also seen great advancements in developing methodological tool, digital platforms, and frameworks for planning that will enable the pilot actions to be realised in the next months. The high level of cooperation across the partner landscape has established a suitable platform for sharing of knowledge and co-creation of the tested solutions in a technically solid and contextually adjusted way.
Now, in its second year, the EnerCmed team is more motivated than ever to turn learnings into action. During upcoming activities the pilot will be tested out, developed into establishing linkages with the community and finally upscale the findings to help meet the overarching objectives of the Mission for Climate Neutral and Smart Villages and the thematic community of the Greener Mediterranean.
We are still at the beginning of the road, but enthusiasm runs high, determination is fierce and the footprint is already evident. Anyway, EnerCmed is not a project, it’s a common goal for a safer, greener and resilient Med for all.
