Labour market insertion

The POWERTY project worked to increase access to renewable energy for vulnerable groups to tackle energy poverty. This was done primarily by improving regional policy instruments targeting 4 topics: new innovative technologies, new formulas for financing, improving the regulatory framework and empowering vulnerable groups. Over the project's 4 year duration, the partners developed a complete learning process to facilitate an effective knowledge flow between these regions.

Generació Dones was an innovative job placement plan aimed at promoting the energy rehabilitation of buildings and energy efficiency targetting unemployed women in Barcelona. The objective was the promotion of female employment in a highly masculinised sector such as construction and renewable energies through a transferable and replicable pilot proposal that, on the one hand, ended the sector's horizontal segregation, and on the other, contributed to the investment in rehabilitation and energy efficiency coming from the European Next Generation funds having an impact on the groups that require it most, and specifically, on women.

Warm Up New Zealand was a government-subsidized residential energy efficiency and clean energy program, addressing respiratory illnesses and winter mortality rates. The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (EECA) collaborated with home insulation companies, regional councils, energy trusts, and other partners to provide low-income households with grants covering 60% of the cost of insulation.

Warm Up New Zealand is a government-subsidized residential energy efficiency and clean energy program, addressing respiratory illnesses and winter mortality rates. The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (EECA) collaborated with home insulation companies, regional councils, energy trusts, and other partners to provide low-income households with grants covering 60% of the cost of insulation.

Warmer Kiwi Homes was a four-year Government programme offering grants covering two-thirds of the cost of ceiling and underfloor insulation.

In the POWERTY pilot, a collective photovoltaic installation was carried out on the roof of public schools to share most of the energy generated with families in a situation of energy poverty in the neighborhood. All this accompanied by legal, social and technical assistance.

The association provides homeless families with the opportunity to move from self-built shacks to city-rented housing. The homeless families will move into previously derelict properties, which will be renovated by volunteers and the future tenants. On average, ten people will work per day on the renovation projects, with more over the weekends. The renovation process should take approximately 10 days.

The project aimed to offer support for insulating and heating houses, complemented by educating families about proper heating solutions in order to improve children health status as well as investing in development of new skills, which allowed beneficiaries to find a job.

The project aimed to create an innovative employment plan and to promote energy education and a new energy culture, especially aimed at people in a situation of vulnerability to unemployment (women outside the circuits of formally paid work) in Nou Barris, a district of Barcelona especially affected by energy poverty.

The project aims to create local jobs via retrofitting interventions and reduce CO2 emissions, producing a carbon calculator and to reduce fuel poverty and the improvement of the housing stock in very deprived areas of the country.