Aim

The methodology is designed to incorporate the experience of the broad regional partnership in all stages of the project. Throughout the project dissemination activities on project aims and outputs are planned, to include stakeholders in the partner regions and involve more EU regions in the move towards sustainable energy. The first step is an analysis of the state of the art on energy strategies, targets and existing monitoring tools. The more experienced regions will collect and compare policies and measures of all partners. The findings will be discussed at 3 seminars on analysis state of art, each with two experienced partners and another two with less experienced partners.

During a series of 5 peer reviews, multinational teams of regional experts from more experienced partners will visit a less experienced host-region to review its regional energy strategy. The visiting experts will meet regional energy stakeholders and make relevant site visits. Each host region will use the recommendations in the review report to prepare and does the action plan for their implementation.

All the experiences and lessons from the previous stages of the project will be exchanged during a mutual learning seminar, to ensure full knowledge transfer between all partners. The findings and recommendations from the project will be fed into a toolkit for regional sustainable energy strategies. It will be available for all regions to assess their potential for RES and energy efficiency and to monitor progress in the achievement of their energy targets.