Objectives

The partner Regions in the project "Initiative for Low Energy Training in Europe" are all committed to voluntary policies intended to control energy consumption, particularly in the building sector.

All of them are implementing measures to promote low energy consumption, which have, for example, led to the success of the low energy consumption construction concepts such as Minergie in Switzerland and PassiveHaus in Germany.

The partner Regions have the will to move very quickly towards a significant reduction in energy consumption in construction and will focus on renovation. But the aim of the project is primarily to face a lack of training in the field of the low energy consumption in building sector.

To achieve this, ILETE consortium has three priorities:

• To set up 8 seminars on low energy consumption in buildings thanks to the work of a European group of experts, all professors in schools and universities of each partner region
• To set up a common training kit composed by modules adapted for building professional stakeholders
• To inform all target groups on high-energy efficiency in buildings by guides on regional/European certification, brochures on ILETE results, regional/European events and awards, regional knowledge centres, promotion of regional reference projects ...

In a global strategy, ILETE project should achieve the first step: Awareness and training platform, and should enable to start the second step: Certification and model low energy operations. The final objective is to obtain political commitment on massive low energy operations (third and last step). It is ILETE way to reach its general and long-term objective: Dividing by 5 the energy consumption in buildings!

Actions

Six main activities have been identified to implement the objectives of the project:

1. Knowledge management with the development of a collaborative platform (web tool) with different levels of information accessibility:

• all users, open access to ILETE website: general information and presentation of ILETE outcomes: database on existing training courses, regional guides, reference projects, regional knowledge centres, event and awards, brochure...
• registered trainers, access to the vocational training kit (special group on the collaborative platform)
• European group of experts, access to the 8 seminars (special group on the collaborative platform)
• ILETE consortium access to all ILETE deliverables (special group on the collaborative platform)

2. Vocational training on low energy consumption in order to ensure that building professionals (i.e. architect, urban planner, building workers, etc.) receive the most appropriate training in energy low consumption according to their specific needs and experience.

3. Initial training on high-energy efficiency buildings through knowledge exchange: set up of seminars aiming at promoting energy low energy consumption technologies, products and certification among students (universities, architects and engineering schools).

4. Promotion of European certification / labelling through concrete actions towards professionals and policy-makers in order to adopt high "low energy standards" when classifying buildings.

5. Communication and dissemination of training material, of best practices and certifications information, through conferences and events...

6. Management of ILETE activities by Région Alsace.