On March 24, SPEEDIER had the opportunity to participate in the Concerted Action on the Energy Efficiency Directive to showcase how the project is working towards this directive. Padraig OReilly, Researcher at Limerick Institute of Technology, was the person responsible to explain, on behalf of SPEEDIER, the ongoing impact assessment on the market uptake of
Interview with Mariana Fernández, Head of Communications and Capacity Building. PMO at Sustainable Innovations Q: How can communication and dissemination help contribute to achieving the project goals? A: In communication, we usually say: “if we don’t communicate it, it doesn’t exist.” We can have the best service, but if we are not able to address
Last March 5, SPEEDIER met with sister projects (innoveas, SMEmpower efficiency, E2DRIVER, DEESME, ICEEE, and Triple A) to address the strategy regarding dissemination and policy brief. Project partners are actively involved in organising joint events in the coming 6 months to deliver more information about the progress to the different stakeholders. Likewise, a joint paper
Interview with Nicola de Giusti, Management Engineer & Business Analyst at Politecnico de Milano What are Politecnico de Milano’s responsibilities within the project? The two main tasks which Politecnico de Milano is bringing forward at the moment are related to content creation for the training of SPEEDIER Experts and Trainers, and managing the implementation of
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The First 18 months of the project are over and SPEEDIER held a meeting to celebrate its achievements to date! During two days in January, the consortium partners were able to discuss SPEEDIER progress and present the milestones accomplished in this first period. The first beta version of our auditing tool is now ready! A
On November 26, Jo Southernwood, Energy Research Engineer Consultant and coordinator of SPEEDIER, attended the MaREI symposium to speak about the project. MaREI is the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at University College Cork. MaREI has over 200 researchers across 13 partner institutes
On December 2 and 3, SPEEDIER hosted its first training session entitled ‘A new approach to selling energy audits and energy efficiency advice to SMEs’.
On October 29, as part of the Sustainable Places 2020 conference, SPEEDIER had the opportunity to hold its first workshop. Accompanied by INNOVEAS, SMEmPOWER and E2DRIVER, SPEEDIER went through the topics of ‘SMEs and energy efficiency. Needs & background discoveries to date’, ‘Training proposals based on discoveries’, and ‘Policies to date for SMEs. Possibilities in
Interview to Eva Martín, Innovation and Project Manager at the Science and Technology Park Cartuja Q: How is the engagement with the Spanish SMEs going? A: The Science and Technology Park Cartuja, in Seville, will be the pilot site for the SPEEDIER Project in Spain. Specifically, this pilot will be carried out focusing on companies allocated in two