REVIPOWER – Energy and Resource Efficient Neighbourhood Renewals in Polish Cities

Project

The overall goal of the project is to unleash the transformative potential of renewal efforts that will be developed under the National Revitalization Law and as well as local revitalisation plans by making them more sustainable, especially in regard to resource efficiency. adelphi and the partner organisations IPA, PNEC and IWO e.V. are putting sustainable development and energy efficiency at the heart of the debate on revitalization in Poland. Further project partners will design and test the innovative modular and “open source” training concept REVIPOWER for and together with Polish municipal authorities and key actors from local and regional organisations. Together with experts from Germany and Poland, the participants from municipalities and local and regional actors will develop the training modules. A more participative approach will be used instead of the traditional separation between teachers and trainees. The thematic modules will be structured by taking into account the socio-economic priorities of the Polish participating municipalities. The goal is to overcome the usual sectoral approach and to tap into the potential of cross-cutting approaches for the revitalisation efforts. Ultimately, the training material empowers participants to act as multipliers and to spread the acquired knowledge in their networks, thereby contributing to the mainstreaming of sustainable neighbourhood revitalisation.