Publications

European Citizen Energy Academy: Best Practice Guide

The EUKI project EUCENA – European Citizen Energy Academy published a best practice guide for South East Europe featuring inspiring community energy initiatives in the Balkan region. The goal of this publication is to illustrate good practices of energy communities in the region and to inspire citizens to launch their own citizen energy communities, following the steps of the frontrunning initiatives.

Best Practice Guide in English

Best Practice Guide in Greek

EUCENA – European Citizen Energy Academy

Handbook: Climate and energy efficient kitchens in schools

The publication shows how to implement climate friendly kitchens in schools. The EUKI project Clikis Network has put together a handbook that can be used by schools, educators, administrative staff in schools to make better climate-friendly menus and to reduce the energy outputs.  This is aligned with the EU goals on reducing carbon footprint.

CLIKIS Handbook climate friendly school kitchen in Estonian

CLIKIS Handbook climate friendly school kitchen in Croatian

Project

CLIKIS Network

Climate Heros: Multinational Survey Wave 2

This survey by EUKI project Climate Heros tracks the level of awareness and engagement of youth regarding matters related to wildlife preservation, climate change and sustainable development in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and the Czech Republic. The findings are compared to survey results from 2021.

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Climate Heroes

Green innovations for local transformation processes: European startups as drivers for transition

The new issue of Transition, publication series of the FIAP e.V., “Green innovations for local transformation processes: European startups as drivers for transition” is based on the experiences and results of the GreenTecLab project.

Project partners and other important actors provide an overview of the activities in the different regions in the various contributions. Project experience and results are shared and challenges and successes are reported. Furthermore, the articles also explore how green business ideas, innovations and projects contribute to supporting environmental, social, cultural and economic change in the regions.

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GTL – Green Tec Labs

Understanding the Gaps and Addressing the Potentials of Energy Sufficiency in “Catching-up” European Economies

This paper by EUKI project CACTUS – Consolidating Ambitious Climate Targets with End-Use Sufficiency addresses reasons and ways to bridge the gap between energy efficiency and energy sufficiency in policy making. With a focus on two “catching-up” economies in Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary and Lithuania, it examines the role of energy sufficiency in strengthening climate mitigation actions. The goal is to pave the way for the development of sufficiency policies by raising the awareness of policymakers on the sufficiency concept and its mitigation role.

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CACTUS – Consolidating Ambitious Climate Targets with End-Use Sufficiency

Please Don’t Let Them Be Misunderstood!

Mystery shopping is a convenient tool that is gaining momentum in the finance sector to understand professionals’ behavior in front of clients. It’s becoming common practice for European regulators dealing with consumer protection issues to integrate mystery shopping in their toolkit.

EUKI Project Sustainable Finance and Consumer Protection conducted a mistery shopping campaign in six European countries focusing on the consideration of clients’ sustainability motivations by financial advisors. The results, presented in the report “Please Don’t Let Them Be Misunderstood!”, give an overview of various practices of financial advisors across Europe and challenges the upcoming regulation’s capability to address the most common pitfalls.

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Sustainable Finance and Consumer Protection