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 active participation of marginalized groups in decision-making processes.
GENDER4POwer will achieve its objectives through a set of 7 Work Packages, structured around 6 demonstration sites that aim to reduce energy vulnerability through renovation, specific energy efficiency measures and/or renewable energy production. The project emphasizes capacity building and skills enhancement programs to ensure active participation and multi-stakeholder collaboration. It will also provide policy insights and recommendations for both national and European contexts, aiming to scale up and accelerate tested and established schemes.
The project brings together 9 partners from six countries across Europe (Slovenia, Lithuania, Austria, Greece, Spain and Germany) with expertise in social sciences, citizen engagement, energy communities, gender equality, renewable energy use, renovation, and policy advocacy. This multidisciplinary expertise helps to implement a comprehensive, cross-cutting gender approach to selected energy poverty solutions, grounded in the needs and experiences of local citizens.
Project partners: WIRTSCHAFT UND INFRASTRUKTUR GMBH & CO PLANUNGS (Germany), WOMEN ENGAGE FOR A COMMON FUTURE (Germany), AUSTRIAN ENERGY AGENCY (Austria), D’ENGINYERIA SENSE FRONTERES (Spain), ELECTRA (Greece), VIESOJI ISTAIGA ‘ATNAUJINKIME MIESTA – Amiestas (Lithuania), B-NK GMBH (Austria) , COMUNITAT ENERGETICA DE LA BORDETA (Spain) and FOCUS (Slovenia)
Project website: will be developed
Project duration: 1.11.2024 – 31.10.2028
Contact: [email protected]
