Teenergy Schools Project

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High energy efficient schools in the Mediterranean

 

TEENERGY SCHOOLS: The TEENERGY SCHOOLS project has successfully implemented a Multi-Issues Platform as an interactive Network for the gathering of a common data base and the dissemination of best practices regarding energy efficient retrofitting and new building of secondary schools in the Mediterranean climate context.

The Project has operated from 2009 to 2011 in four countries of the Mediterranean ( Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Greece) and has pointed out the lack of energy saving benchmarks targeted to south Europe climatic conditions and the low energy efficiency of existing school buildings taking into account not only heating but also cooling needs.

Based on the experimentation of energy saving techniques, integration of innovative materials and renewable energies, including passive cooling for reducing costs and consumption in the school buildings, a common Action Plan, Guidelines and 12 Pilot Projects have been developed in close collaboration between all territorial and scientific partners, the pupils of the schools throughout direct participation and the involvement of post graduate students during three international Workshops and a one week CAMPUS session.

The following eight partners have participated in the TEENERGY SCHOOLS project:
The Province of Lucca
(Lead Partner)
 
The interuniversity research center ABITA, Florence
  
The Province
of Trapani
  
ARPA (Regional Agency of Energy), Sicily
             
Cyprus University
of Technology
  
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens/IASA,
Athens
  
The Prefecture
of Athens
  
Provincial Agency
for Energy, Granada

TEENERGY SCHOOLS has set up a good practice benchmark based on data from an Energy Survey in nearly 100 Secondary Schools in the Mediterranean Area which provides representative values and compares secondary schools' actual energy performance based on a common Energy Audit, specific end user's feedback questionnaires and an ICT based Tool for the benchmarking of the results. TEENERGY SCHOOLS' partnership has worked on the following eight different territories (taking into account the typical climate conditions referred to coast, mountain and city/plain area):
ITALY
  
CYPRUS
  
GREECE
  
SPAIN
             
Province of Lucca
(Tuscany) and
Province
of Trapani (Sicily)
  
Districts of Paphos
and Larnaca
 
Province of Athens (Municipality of Kessariani) through the actions of the Prefecture of Athens (Attica) and Province of Pieria (Municipality of Katerini, Central Macedonia) through Athens University (Greece)
  
County Council
of Granada

 

The Partnership that was implemented during this project is looking forward to promote the obtained results and outcomes of this initiatives on EU and national level searching for interesting collaboration and synergies also outside of the European context, taking into account that the Mediterranean climate presents similar situation in the ENPI countries, for example...

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Teenergy Schools Action Plan

 

TEENERGY SCHOOLS ACTION PLAN.

The teenergy schools framework - Measuring efficiency in existing school buildings - Building solutions for improving energy efficiency: the pilot projects - Building-up energy saving awarness - The teenergy schools guidelines.

 

Final Conference

 

International Campus

From November 29th to December 03rd 2010 a one week INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS workshop on high energy-efficient architecture for secondary school-buildings in the Mediterranean area has been organized in the framework of the MED programme TEENERGY SCHOOLS. During the INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS post graduate students from the partner countries will elaborate technical solutions for 12 pilot projects addressing tematical focuses such as: passive cooling, natural ventilation, solar architecture and climate-adapted  energy efficient envelopes. International experts will intervene with specific lectures during the workshop.