Project presentation:

Grant Agreement No IEE/09/841/SI2.558360Duration from Sep 1, 2011 to Feb 28, 2013, Date of slides: March 8, 2013

2) PROJECT SUMMARY

Content: •Pilot training of urban planners and others involved with urban planning to understand the basics of RES •Dissemination of main triaining material to other stakeholders in Europe

Key objective:Introduction of RES and EE into urban planning as a means to improve sustainability of the urban plans

Main outputs:•800 experts participated in training sessions•Experiences of various training approaches to be shared•Key training material available in 10 languages (3 000 slides)•Communication in conferences, public media, face to face, etc.

Partners:•7 partners from Finland, Germany, Hungary, Spain and U.K.

3) BACKGROUND

Challenges to Urban Planning•Need to reduce heat consumption in buildings;•Need to reduce fuel consumption in transportation;•Need to reduce electricity consumption in lighting, cooling, heating;•Need to turn from fossil to renewable energy; and,•Need to reduce overall emissions to atmosphere.

Key Role•The Urban Planner is the first in the urban development process to decide whether RES and EE will succeed in the particular area or not.

Barriers faced by RES Expansion•At present, urban areas tend to be scattered rather than centralised, which means higher energy consumption and emissions!•Energy and emission issues are not taught to urban planners, neither in planning schools nor in continuing education programmes in general;•In year 2009, only 4 universities were identified in Northern America and the EU that have integrated energy and emissions with their urban planning syllabus

4) OBJECTIVES AND MAIN STEPS

Objectives•Start pilot training of urban planners and related stakeholders in five countries to understand the requirements set and opportunities offered by RES and EE•Disseminate training material to other schools to develop similar training•Raise awareness of the planning audience on the links prevailing between urban and energy planning

Main Steps1.Carry out the training needs analysis in five countries2.Desing and deliver short and long training courses for the urban planners and the main stakeholders3.Collect and analyse the feedback of delivered trainings4.Provide lessons learned and training materials to other training organisations in Europe

5) IMPACTS

• Awareness has risen among the urban planning professionals: in order to fight Climate Change, one has to deal with energy and emissions in parallel to the urban planning;

• Some 1115 urban planners and other experts have been trained to understand the links prevailing between urban and energy planning, requirements set and opportunities offered by RES and EE ;

• Some 200 planning schools and up to 2 500 district energy companies have been informed about the training material available in web in 10 languages

• Nearly 580 readers/downloads per each training module on UPRES website

• New best practise cases are under development, based on the existing best practices; and,

• In Finland, in particular, there is evidence that the pilot training of UP-RES has changed existing planning policies (City of Oulu) and incorporated RES and EE elements in to the plans (City of Jyväskylä).

•Finland : Aalto University, Aalto PRO, www.aalto.fi•Germany :

• AGWF - German Association for Heating, Cooling, CHP www.agfw.de

• UA - Universität Augsburg www.uni-augsburg.de/en• TUM - Technische Universität München

http://portal.mytum.de

Hungary : UD University Debrecen www.unideb.hu/portal/en

Spain : SaAS Sabaté associats Arquitectura i Sostenibilitat www.saas.cat

United Kingdom: BRE Building Research Establishment Ltd. www.bre.co.uk

6) PARTNERS AND CONTACT

Contact:Ms. Anna-Maija AhonenMobile: +358 50 30 74 93 4Email: anna-maija.ahonen.at.aalto.fi

UP-RES web page: http://aaltopro.fi/up-res