CLEAN is Denmark’s strongest clean tech cluster with 160 members from the entire clean tech sector and a vast project portfolio. We work for green growth, employment and innovation of new green, sustainable solutions through national and international projects.

We are a politically and technologically neutral platform where domestic and foreign companies, knowledge institutions and public authorities exchange knowledge and enter into new partnerships and projects. CLEAN holds EUs gold label of cluster excellence.

CLEANs contribution builds upon our vast experience with energy renovation projects, e.g. project Green Business Growth and Controlling Energy. Those projects have a very close relationship and network with master craftsmen, consumers, municipalities, local businesses and knowledge institutions.

Our experience comes from bottom-up approaches such as local events and post-education of craftsmen. CLEAN will contribute in all fields of the REFURB project with a focus on communication and dissemination.

www.cleancluster.dk

TREA is a non profit organisation. Its aim is to be a regional unbiased consultancy in energy matters for private home owners and municipalities.

TREA is utilizing its knowledge and experience acquired by acting in the field on energy renovation of different types of houses.

www.trea.ee

At Aalborg University, Department of Civil Engineering, we concentrate on developing and impacting the building sector in the future. Research and teaching are conducted in areas, which focus on understanding environmental causality and planning people’s physical environment.

We have worked with building renovation and drivers/barriers for the users for several years. We will contribute with our knowledge on these topics to develop a method that will increase the level of renovations, and thereby energy savings, in the future.

Read more about the PhD Project: A Holistic Methodology for Sustainable Renovation towards Residential Net-Zero Energy Buildings

Read more about AAUs involvement in the Energy Parcel project (Danish): Målinger og Analyse af Energiforbrug og Indeklima i 4 danske parcelhusrenoveringer 2008-2011. 

ProjectZero is the vision of creating a CO2-neutral Sonderborg by 2029, based on sustainable growth and many new green jobs as a result. Citizen involvement is an important factor towards the goal.

ProjectZero have great expirence with projects that involves the house owners and craftsmen. The knowledge about drivers and barriers in energy renovation is an important input in the REFURB project.

brightgreenbusiness.com

The Municipality of Leeuwarden and the Province of Fryslân are situated in the North of the Netherlands. The  population of Fryslân 650.000 is of which 100.000 live in the capital, the Municipality of Leeuwarden.

The Municipality of Leeuwarden and the Province of Fryslân have a very close working relationship both locally and regionally/internationally. Promoting a renewable energy, and energy saving in homes is a priority. They will be able to share their extensive experience in this field and their broader knowledge of the situation in the Netherlands in the REFURB project.

Read more:
www.slimwoneninleeuwarden.nl
www.fryslan.frl
www.leeuwarden.nl
www.2018.nl
www.2018.nl/nl/projecten#energy-now

Leiedal associates 13 cities and municipalities in the urbanized area of Kortrijk (Belgium), supporting the regional development and local policy. More housing renovation dynamics and increased energy performance of buildings contributes to this goal.

Leiedal coordinates the cooperation between public stakeholders on housing policies. They aim at tackling barriers for housing renovation (advice, financing, execution of work…) and seek catalysing unburdening of households through triple helix- stakeholder involvement.

Read more on www.warmerwonen.be.

Read more on Leiedal initatives.

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VITO is a leading European independent research and technology organisation in the areas of cleantech and sustainable development, elaborating solutions for the large societal challenges of today. VITO provides innovative and high-quality solutions, whereby large and small companies can gain a competitive advantage, and advises industry and governments on determining their policy for the future.

VITO has comprehensive experience and a proven track record in coordinating EU projects (e.g. H2020 projects STEP UP; CITY-ZEN; ECO-DISTRICT and a list of IEE projects such as Request and Request2Action (IEE); COHERENO; TABULA and EPISCOPE). Through these EU and national projects VITO built up expertise in the challenge of reducing energy consumption in the built environment but also broader in the field of renewable energies, smart grids, smart communities and cities.

EnergyVille is a cooperation between the Flemish research institutes KU Leuven, VITO and imec for research on sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems. Our researchers deliver expertise to industry and cities on energy efficient buildings and intelligent networks – such as smart grids and advanced district heating

Read more on VITO: www.vito.be/en/energy

Read more on EnergyVille: www.energyville.be/?q=en

Read more on the many studies in Dutch for the Flemish regional level:

Read more on STEP UP: www.stepupsmartcities.eu
Read more on COHERENO: www.cohereno.eu
Read more on EPISCOPE: www.episcope.eu
Read more on Request2Action: www.building-request.eu

The Bauverein Halle & Leuna is a housing cooperative which was founded in 1910 in Halle (Saale). The Cooperative is one of the biggest cooperatives in Saxony-Anhalt. The mission and core competence of the cooperative is the improvement of conditions of housing and the refurbishment of buildings for the members of the cooperative. Due to this the energy saving approach is in the focus for the further refurbishment of buildings.

The cooperative owns deep experiences in refurbishment of different types and ages of residential buildings. The cooperative will use the existing network of different housing organisations especially in Germany  to organize the information transfer.

www.bauverein-halle-leuna.de

Recticel insulation is part of the Recticel group, and produces thermal PU insulation boards for all kind of buildings and applications. The Recticel group is a Belgian group with PU activities in the whole world, but with a strong European dimension. Recticel has almost 8000 employees. It has four divisions: automobile, bedding, flexible foams and insulation.

As marketleader in PU insulation, we have a lot of experience in energy saving of houses. In the past years we did a lot of innovations based on our own experience and built up by the practical cases, that we worked out – e.g. Massive Passive House, total renovation building Spiere and the Isofinish concept. We collaborate daily with architects, contractors and homeowners. At this way we can give very useful input to the Refurb project.

Read more on Recticel insulation’s website: www.recticelinsulation.com
Read more on passiv house
Read more on the plaster rendering system: PU-insulation and plaster
Read more on the Sarking system

Bostoen is a full provider of housing solutions and a dynamic market innovator with an integrated sustainable vision. Bostoen is the reference and the market leader in the construction of new affordable passive houses and NZEB (nearly zero energy building) homes.

The baseline is to create a warm home for everyone. Relaying on more than 40 years of expertise, they started in 2013 with the concept of NZEB renovations.

Since 2009 Bostoen is market leader in building passive houses and NZEB home. In this project they want to share and merge their experience with energy efficient new dwellings and their experience with renovating houses to a higher level. They want to provide one-stop-shop nearly zero energy-solutions for all kinds of dwellings in Belgium. With their in-house expertise and the government stimulating renovations, they see the energy-renovation market become very important.

Read more on Bostoen: Ren-BEN renovatie.
Read more on Bostoen: Totaalverbouwing.
Read more on Bostoen: Duurzaam bouwen.

The isw Institute is committed to user-oriented and interdisciplinary research on economy, education and technology. Its employees are from different fields of study such as economics, geography, research and education, technology and labor market, social studies and informatics. The isw has long term experience in the analysis and strategy development as well as practical experience in the cooperation with politics and industry of the region Saxony-Anhalt and Central Germany.

The isw Institute has experience and relevant partnerships with stakeholders of the urban development and housing market. It moderates decision making processes between public and municipal stakeholders and decision-makers from the housing market. Based on the cooperation with the housing societies, a number of energetic renovation projects can be integrated into the project.

Read more on isw Institut.

Buurkracht offers supports to buttom up, local energy saving initiatives in the Netherlands.  We help them to mobilise their neighbourhood in order to save energy. We support them in planning & organising, give communication support and provide each neighbour with insight in their energy consumption and ways to lower that.

We have build up a lot of experience and knowledge how to bring neighbours together to save energy. As of june 2015, 75 neighbourhoods are working with Buurkracht with almost 4000 participating neighbours and that number is growing everyday.

Read more on the Buurkracht initiative

Read more on Netherland initiatives to combat climate change

Regional development agency of Gorenjska, BSC, Business support centre, l.t.d., Kranj, founded in 1995, is a regional support institution for entrepreneurial and socio-economic development of the Gorenjska region, which is spread out in north-west Slovenia.

BSC has been involved in national building and renovation programmes and also numerous transnational energy efficient projects and has a wide network of companies and project followers on this topic in Gorenjska region.

Read more on www.bsc-kranj.si