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UP-STAIRS removed the barriers to citizen participation in the transition from a consumer-market to a ‘prosumer-market’. This transition required active learning and participation from all stakeholders. The UP-STAIRS Energy Service Framework enabled local authorities and citizens to work together through a common structure embodied in a one-stop-shop.

The series of projects address energy-poor citizens in Zagreb, Croatia. The project was conducted in 4 iterations over 5 years. The latest iteration, "Together for more comfortable housing 4" was focused on the specific energy needs and housing conditions of people with disabilities.

The project was based on the territorial need to address social participation and the creation of ties the situation of poverty and vulnerability. The innovative element of the project was the participation of vulnerable people in public photovoltaic installations. Through a social billing system, it was intended to develop a new energy culture linked to the values ​​of the territory and the communication of social activities aimed at improving cohesion from diversity.

The project aimed to engage private consumers and households in co-financing schemes for renewable energy (RE) installations, with a focus on vulnerable groups like low-income HH, unemployment and women.

The project aimed to assist local authorities and other stakeholders in small sized rural municipalities in Rhodope Region of Bulgaria in successfully launching and implementing sustainable energy projects.

RHEPOB aims to analyse the relationship between hidden energy poverty, the adaptive behavior of occupants associated to thermal conditions and the architectonic features of dwellings in Central-Southern Chile, to generate architectonic design and usage criteria that help identify and reduce energy poverty.

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 aim of REACH project is to contribute to energy poverty reduction at practical and structural level. The project empowers energy poor households to take actions to save energy and change their habits, and to establish energy poverty as an issue that demands structural solutions at local, national and EU level.

The Energy Inclusion Program helps low income households to acces clean and renewable energy a swell as improve energy eficiency through education.

The project aimed at providing energy-efficiency upgrades to 1000 low-income households with a budget over 1 million € .