Collaborative ENERGY TO ACTivate communities towards climate neutrality
Energy2Act empowers Cesena’s local communities to co-design Positive Clean Energy Neighbourhoods (PCENs) and lead the energy transition from the ground up, guided by a shared vision of a climate-neutral future. By fostering local ownership of the transition process through the Community Readiness Level (CRL) model, the project boosts the collective capacity to act. With tools like the One-Stop-Shop for Climate Communities, a data-driven decision support system, and solidarity-based energy solutions, Energy2Act builds Energy Culture and strengthens alliances between citizens and institutions to help achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
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To reach climate neutrality by 2050, Cesena must accelerate its energy transition by overcoming key barriers like private sector disengagement, fragmentation, limited access to funding and incentives, and lack of granular data for informed decision-making.
ENERGY2ACT tackles these challenges at the neighbourhood level, equipping communities to take ownership of the energy transition process and work together to implement Positive Clean Energy Neighbourhoods (PCENs), transforming Cesena one neighbourhood at a time.
As a cornerstone of this transformation, the project introduces the One-Stop-Shop for Climate Communities, offering integrated building-to-neighbourhood renovation services. It is hosted within the Cesena Energy Living Lab, a new urban reference point where citizens, professionals and institutions meet, experiment and act together to build a shared energy culture.
To enable the creation of PCENs, ENERGY2ACT operates through three interconnected dimensions: a digital layer, with a GIS-based Decision Support System for data-driven planning; a social layer, using the Community Readiness Level model to reinforce local ownership and collective capacity to act; and an economic layer, through the Climate Community Exchange System and Fund, enabling solidarity-based transactions and social inclusion.
By engaging all urban actors, ENERGY2ACT empowers communities with the knowledge, tools and mindset to lead the transition, showcasing its impact in the Vigne neighbourhood.
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The European Urban Initiative is an essential tool of the urban dimension of Cohesion Policy for the 2021-2027 programming period. The initiative established by the European Union supports cities of all sizes, to build their capacity and knowledge, to support innovation and develop transferable and scalable innovative solutions to urban challenges of EU relevance.
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