SOCIALNRG
Energy poverty affects many households in Europe, and current solutions are often limited to short-term financial assistance. But short-term solutions are not enough to ensure a sustainable and equitable energy transition that does not leave millions of vulnerable energy poor households behind. The SOCIALNRG project aims to develop, test and verify a new and fully scalable approach to be applied in three pilot social housing communities in Slovenia, Italy and Belgium. The approach will be based on three pillars: building cooperation to create or adapt existing energy communities, fostering peer exchange and learning, and making recommendations to tackle barriers [več ...]
GENDER4POWER
Generating Equity, Nurturing Diversity, Energising Resilience 4 Power Against Energy Poverty The GENDER4POWER project aims to enhance living conditions and energy efficiency in buildings (and households) affected by energy poverty. It emphasizes a holistic gender-responsive, multi-stakeholder, and people-centered approach to renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions, aligning with EU strategies such as the Gender Equality Strategy and the Energy Efficiency Directive. GENDER4POWER aspires to demonstrate the potential of gender-responsive projects in meeting EU strategies. By incorporating gender mainstreaming and intersectionality and by involving citizens, the project aims to enhance public acceptance and community trust, bridge social networks, and ensure [več ...]
My Youth Revolution
In 2023 and 2024, the project will organise several workshops and conferences for young people, create a youth manifesto and participate in international youth conferences in Vienna and Bologna, and hold several meetings with decision-makers, round tables, with a special focus on young people who are not represented in power structures and whose voices are all too often ignored. Young people will summarise their demands and aspirations in a youth manifesto to be presented to the European Parliament.Project Partners:Sudwind (Austria), WeWorld (Italy), BRF (Poland)Project website:https://euwes.door.hr/Project duration:December 2022 – November 2024The project is funded by the European Union. The views and [več ...]
LIFE Together for 1.5
The project aims to align the EU’s climate and energy commitments and actions with the Paris Agreement’s objective of limiting global warming to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels. The project builds on the opportunities provided by the revision of climate and energy policies (finalisation of the Fit for 55 legislative package, revision of the National Energy and Climate Plans, and revision of the national long-term strategies) during the project period (September 2022 - August 2025) and the improvement of public acceptance of more ambitious and inclusive climate action.Project Partners:Climate Action Network Europe (CAN Europe), Centre for Transport and Energy (CDE), [več ...]
Corporate accountability for human rights and the environment in Europe
The project aims to advocate for sustainable legislation and foster a culture of economic fairness in Slovenia. Our primary objective for 2024 is the transposition of the CSDDD legislation, a crucial step towards achieving a more sustainable and equitable economy. As active members of the economic justice steering group, we participate in regular meetings with ECCJ Working Groups and other coalitions. With the support of funding, we can intensify our efforts both nationally and internationally, advocating for ambitious legislation and shaping the discourse on economic justice. By partnering with Delavska svetovalnica, we can highlight cases of corporate abuse and [več ...]
Life COMET
Coalitions for Community Energy Catalysation in Eastern EU Life COMET will catalyze the mapping and capacity building of community energy stakeholders across Eastern EU, with the aim of forming community energy coalitions on national levels. The project aims at shaping a future of enhanced community energy: collaborating to build strong national coalitions, elevating community energy to new heights, and enabling empowering frameworks and services for organisational growth and impact in Eastern EU. Focus leads capacity-building activities for key stakeholders in the field of energy communities. We will build national energy community coalitions by identifying, involving and empowering relevant national [več ...]
INCITE-DEM: Citizens Reinventing Democracy
The challenges of the transforming world test the capacity of our democracies in terms of democratic participation, political trust, and societal consensus. Citizen participation and co-creation processes are critical to support representative democracy processes and improve the quality of political decisions.New Horizon project INCITE-DEM aims at enhancing inclusive participation and civic engagement, while expanding democratic innovation and dynamic feedback mechanisms between citizens and institutional actors in representative democracies. Based on research, the project will experiment with inclusive design processes for democratic innovation in practice, by setting up so called democracy labs in 6 countries. Experiences and research will be translated [več ...]
RENOVERTY
RENOVERTY is a LIFE project focusing on energy renovation of homes afflicted energy poverty. It is a continuation of our efforts to combat energy poverty that have been going on for over a decade. We will focus on the region of Zasavje, where the transition from excavating and burning coal has affected the region with numerous negative economic and social consequences. We will identify models for energy renovation that will suit the different types of homes of families affected by energy poverty. RENOVERTY will promote energy efficiency upgrades of buildings in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)/Southeastern Europe (SEE) and [več ...]
Enough for All
The activities of the platform Enough for All – Sustainable Management of Community Resources for the period 2019–2026 take place in the framework of the LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project (LIFE17 IPC/SI/000007). It is an integral project that employs awareness-raising, education and training of key stakeholders to promote the implementation of measures that will help Slovenia reduce greenhouse gas emissions more effectively by 2030, i.e. a transition to a low-carbon society as quickly as possible. The platform Enough for All – Sustainable Management of Community Resources is based on the idea that we cannot ensure our wellbeing as individuals, but [več ...]
LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE
LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE - an integral project that will use awareness campaigns, education and training of key stakeholders to encourage the implementation of measures that will enable Slovenia to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Focus implements or participates in the implementation of the following project activities: raising awareness of climate change and its impacts on Slovenia, and promoting good practices in the field greenhouse gas emissions reductions; providing support to local communities for the transition to a low-carbon society – including through a Focus-managed online platform for sustainable management of community resources www.dovoljzavse.si; capacity building for low-carbon society [več ...]
