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Collaborative Actions for Triggering Investments in Sustainable Energy Actions using Structural and Cohesion Funds (SF-Energy Invest)

Project Description

With the main aim of increasing the share of Structural and Cohesion Funds (SCF) money spent on sustainable energy within the final phase of the programming period 2007-2013, SF-Energy Invest intends to provide practical support in the development of SCF project proposals in 9 pilot regions, as well as to increase the awareness on this topic through a EU mobilisation campaign in a number of campaigning regions.

Furthermore, the project will identify recommendations on how to increase the budget allocated to renenwable energy and energy efficiency projects in the SCF programming period 2014-2020.

Main fields of action

  • Monitoring and evaluation on SCF calls/projectsfor benchmarking purposes and dissemination of best practices
  • Project development support to help elaborate the financial and management pre-requisites for energy projects in EU pilot regions, to make them "bankable" and ready for submission
  • Awareness campaigning on the benefits of sustainable energy actions for economic development as well as on the possibilities to use SCF for implementing sustainable energy projects
  • Improvement of networking between SCF stakeholders on all levels
  • Practical recommendatins for improvement of the framework conditions and implementation practices for energy actions in the programming period 2014-2020
  • General communication and dissemination

 

To know more about the project, please visit: http://sf-energyinvest.eu/