Resources

This report looks at the relevant legal framework at the European level to identify where opportunities lie that should be exploited, but also what difficulties exist to ensure the development of investment platforms in the CitizEE pilot regions and the success of the CitizEE project.

This report looks at the relevant legal framework in each of the pilot regions to identify where opportunities lie that should be exploited, but also what difficulties exist to ensure the development of investment platforms in the CitizEE pilot regions and the success of the CitizEE project.

This document describes the project-related dissemination and communication activities carried out throughout the project. This includes:

• Promotional materials created and published;

• Social media campaign achievements during the CitizEE project (M1-M36); and

• Participation in events.

The CitizEE Toolkit is designed for citizens, private investors, project sponsors, regions, local governments, energy companies, and individuals who want to participate in the development and financing of energy efficiency projects. No specific level of experience in the field of financing energy efficiency projects is required to use the Toolkit. The Toolkit is suitable for people who are active in this field, as well as those who are new to it! 

In order to increase the knowledge, find potential partners for the projects where citizens’ finance might be employed in energy efficiency projects, a series of training workshops and webinars were envisaged to be held. Facilitation of face to face workshops turned out to be difficult during the Covid pandemic. The activities aimed to increase capacity on citizen funding at country level by creating attractive investment opportunities.

This sustainability plan is about actions partners and actors involved in CitizEE will undertake to further capitalize on project results, lessons learnt, and the level of branding achieved by April 2022. To realistically understand the opportunities for CitizEE to have a long term impact we need to realistically match partners expectations, abilities and resources against potential goals. The CitizEE consortium feels strongly that the lessons learned within the pilot projects have not yet been fully captured and that the pursuit of these pilots beyond the CitizEE funding will be vital in order to gather deeper knowledge on how citizen finance schemes can be developed, within or outside of Investment Platforms.

This report aims to report the progress of CitizEE Pilot Countries/Regions against the implementation of the Action Plan to operationalize the Citizen Investment Platforms in their region/country. The report is therefore based on the Master Action Plan to set-up and run Citizen Investment Platform.

This report aims to report the progress of the CitizEE Pilot Countries/Regions against the expected impacts set out in the grant agreement.

The main objective of this report is to provide a final update on the implementation of the CFs4EE financing scheme in the four different pilot countries/regions. Along with the description of the planned and revised schemes, the report includes a section on next steps and commitments as well as a brief assessment of the impact of the KPIs of the overall CitizEE project.

This report on capacity building activities provides an overview of the CITIZEE Capacity Building activities. The activities consist in training workshops and webinars. Overall, 3 capacity building workshops were conducted, bringing together experts from the EU regions/municipalities/cities representations and clusters or networks and other stakeholders interested in implementing CFs4EE Financing Schemes for energy efficiency projects. Furthermore, a webinar series was coordinated under this task.

This booklet presents the experiences and recommendations of the four different demonstration projects. It also includes operational advice from a financial expert on developing and implementing citizen financing programs, and regulatory recommendations from a legal expert on scaling up citizen financing programs and improving efficiency and regulation. The Pilots section of the booklet presents the four different demonstration projects, their specific financing approach, and lessons learned. The key messages from our finance and legal expert can be found in the Core statements section.  

This report provides an update of the map of potential risks and the associated assessment of mitigation and actions of the CFs4EE financing scheme in each pilot country/region.  

This report includes the financial statements of the Public Financing Instruments (PFIs) created or to be created under the CFs4EE Financing Scheme. This report provides a forecasted overview on a 10-year period of the financial position of the financing instruments supporting the funding of the financing scheme. The financial statements are extracted from the Detailed Business Plan.

The Detailed Business Plan supplements and revises the Preliminary Business Plan after approval by pilot country/regional decision makers. It provides detailed guidance for the establishment of the CFs4EE funding programs and related planning.

This report includes the drafting of contractual agreements for each pilot country/region within the CitizEE project.

The objective of this report is to analyze existing experience where public financing instruments (PFI) were used to support the set-up of Citizen Financing Schemes. The report explores financial cooperation between public authorities and cooperatives/crowdfunding platforms by assessing the strategic and operational considerations of combining public funds with citizen funding through Public Financing Instruments and presenting several case-studies that could be used by Pilot Regions as a first step when developing their CFs4EE Financing Scheme.

The Global Risk Assessment report provides a first update on the risk mitigation assessment of the CFs4EE Financing Scheme in each pilot country/region. It will be updated in early 2022.

The main objective of this report is to provide an update on the implementation of the CFs4EE financing scheme in the four different pilot countries/regions. Along with the description of the planned and revised schemes, the report includes a section on next steps and commitments as well as a brief assessment of the impact of the KPIs of the overall CitizEE project.

With a view on the recent developments regarding the relevant legal framework in the context of the European Green Deal, this report shall serve as overview and guideline on how (energy efficiency/renewable energy) projects can be facilitated through private and public money under the ongoing process of updating the legal and regulatory framework.

The main objective of this report is to inform about the implementation of the CFs4EE financing scheme in the four different pilot countries/regions. In addition to describing the planned and revised schemes, the report also includes a section on next steps and commitments, as well as a brief assessment of the impact of the KPIs of the overall CitizEE project.