New European Bauhaus
EIT Community Initiative
Changes at "EC Boost Mataró Lab (Mataró, Spain)"
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Expanding the principles of the New European Bauhaus beyond boundaries of the big cities and reach the citizens of middle-sized towns, paying special attention to most vulnerable groups. Working the engagement of vulnerable consumers to renewable energies and self-consumption by means of coidentifying shared challenges and cocreation potential solutions.
Supporting an open business model for self-consumption installations in energy communities for social economy entities (commercials, technicians, mediators, ethical banks, etc.), catapulting the contribution of entities with social and environmental value, in cooperation with the municipality and the citizens.
Challenge addressed
The selected Cross-KIC NEB challenge is \"Energy communities to ensure comfort living at affordable prices through multidisciplinary retrofitting teams”
Solution proposed, focus area
WHERE?
Mataró, a middle-sized county capital with a population of 125.000, located 40 km north of Barcelona. Mataró has a clear intent towards sustainability and environment, with a County Board for Sustainability since 1993 and a SECAP approved in 2018.
Two parallel initiatives feed this proposal:
Mataró city council is going to promote an energy community with vulnerable households that will start in autumn 2021. The EC Boost En project will pave the way with the citizens to identify the challenges and start landing the future community.
ECOSERVEIS has developed a business model for self-consumption energy communities based on SSC (the MONDCE project, currently ongoing).
Both initiatives will serve as the basis for the reflective process regarding access to energy in Mataró and definition and boosting of future energy community(ies)
HOW?
A 4-step journey for engagement, from challenge identification to cocreation and celebration
Target Groups
Vulnerable consumers of the neighbourhood of Cerdanyola, a deprived area in Mataró
Main activities / milestones
Belonging Fest: An event open to the neighbours of Cerdanyola to raise public awareness about Climate Change, Renewable Energies and Self-consumption.
Co-identification workshop and training: Dedicated workshop with target groups for challenge/barriers identification, including a training based on their needs.
Co-creation workshops and training: A second workshop to permit the citizens engage with the concepts of renewable energies and self-consumption and provide ideas and potential solutions.
BoostEn event: A larger-scale event open to all the Mataró neighbours for raising awareness about vulnerabilities associated to access to energy, as well as promoting alternative energy solutions as energy communities.
Partnership
ECOSERVEIS with the collaboration of Mataró city council
Expected results
- A map of potential energy communities to be developed in Mataró
- Formation materials for citizen awareness about barriers in accessing energy, what are Energy Communities and what they account for
- A selection of suitable business models for EC in Mataró
- A video recording of the project