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Energy Communities Workshop
European Green Cities and Vedvarende Energi invite you to a workshop on Energy Communities Tuesday 23 May from 11-15 in Vartov, Farvergade 27, Copenhagen. The workshop focuses on opportunities and challenges based on concrete examples with the community Hyllegaard...
Diversity Recruitment
In today’s world, jobseekers won’t settle for any less than diverse and inclusive workplaces. Diversity also brings more ideas, more talents, and more skills. The fact is that the energy sector needs more women, as research shows...
Power Performance
Humans have needs. Buildings too. How do we know what our homes need if they can't talk? We want to make sure that your home works for you and uses the right amount of energy. That will be better for your budget and for our planet. As partners in the EU-funded...
Financing Energy Initiatives
Come along and learn more about how housing companies’ can benefit from ESCO financing models for energy renovation initiatives. Boligselskabernes Landsforening…
Value and Reality
How can we create better frameworks and conditions for energy communities as a part of the green transition? What is the potential of a joint organisation of energy communities?…
New job
Do you want to be a part of accelerating the sustainable transition of the built environment through dissemination, innovation and strategic changemaking? We are looking for two candidates engaged in sustainability and with...
New Office
This is the view from our new office in central Copenhagen: Bright and bold. Quiet and yet complex. Alone and all together. Like urban development. Like life. To all of our previous, current and future collaborators and followers – thank you for your support, and for...
Focusing on renters
Energy prices are rising - and tips for how to save money and energy are being sought out and tested across Europe. In Avedøre, representatives from Energistyrelsen - SparEnergi.dk, Hvidovre Muncipality, and Avedøre Green City just gathered to discuss the specific...
Save your seat
We're proud to be Knowledge Partner at The UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen 2023 with the important and needed theme: Sustainable futures – leave no one behind. Save your seat for the world's largest event on sustainability & architecture in 2023. An...
New Light
October is the official start of EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution – one of five selected lighthouse demonstrators of the New European Bauhaus. The initiative connects the European Green Deal to our daily lives and living spaces. It calls on all Europeans to imagine...
Spreeding the seeds
It is abundantly clear that the transition to more renewable energy is moving too slowly. The XPRESS project has worked with both physical and organizational frameworks to promote the use of renewable energy in municipalities and housing organizations by means of...
Be an Ambassador
Avedøre Green City is now offering a Green Ambassador course: Gain knowledge about sustainable living, and be equipped to make a difference for the environment and climate in your local area. Together we will explore how we can live up to the green transition slogan...
Vital Innovation
The Heating and Cooling market represents 50% of the total energy consumed in Europe per year. The W4RES project aims on scaling-up the involvement of women in the market deployment and uptake of Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC) solutions via replicable support...
DK’s first energy community receives attention
Energifællesskab Avedøre (Energy Community Avedøre) was founded as the first energy community in Denmark in collaboration with European Green Cities. Now the benefits are described in an article brought by the Danish magazine Danske Kommuner. The article is available...
Hackathon to increase diversity in renewable energy
Do you work with renewable energy from a business, research, policy, or civil society perspective? Are you interested in making connections across sectors and business types in order to increase the uptake of renewable energy solutions? Then a new W4RES hackathon...
Stakeholder Café on Samsø presents experiences from the EU-project XPRESS
Too few municipalities take advantage of the innovation that lies in collaborating with SMEs in public tenders. In XPRESS, European Green Cities has identified, with its European partners, the barriers and opportunities of the participation of SMEs in...
XPRESS webinar in cooperation with Bornholms ‘Energi & Forsyning’
The EU-supported XPRESS project (www.xpress-h2020.eu) has researched in how to support Green Public Procurement and the integration of Small and Medium Enterprises – to use the potential for innovation in these companies that are too seldom used by the public...
SUPER-i
Together with Danish Association of Social Housing Organisations (Boligselskabernes Landsforening) and six other partners from Italy, Spain, the UK and Belgium, European Green Cities is very happy to announce that we have been invited as a consortium member in a new...
Aarhus Study Tour
Just before the Corona crisis out an end to all study tours - at least for a while, European Green Cities had a visit of 32 persons from Grøn By Stavanger. On their homepage, they inform about the study tour: https://www.gronnby.no/studietur-til-arhus-8-10-mars-2020/...
WEBINAR: CO2-savings with Energy Communities
European Green Cities invites to a free lunch webinar on citizen-energy communities on Tuesday 26 April at 12-12-30. What potentials are there in supporting the realization of local energy communities - both in terms of dollars and cents as well as CO2 savings, but...
ELENA
The two large social housing organisations, Avedøre South and North are implementing energy renovation projects as part of the Avedøre Green City project. In parallel, Avedøre District Heating is planning the optimisation of their network to low energy standard. Among...
W4RES
Do you work with renewable energy? Do you have a project with a high level of women engagement? European Green Cities is supporting the applications of Danish projects as a part of the W4RES EU project. Selected projects will be offered customized business and...
RINNO
As part of EU project RINNO (Innovation in Renovation), and together with interested residents in StoreHus, managed by Avedøre Boligselskab, we have installed ten measuring devices around StoreHus to measure the indoor climate over the course of the year. The...
Smart Energy Green Cities
There is huge potential for summer solar energy storage in groundwater which can be utilised in winter. Supplemented with heat pumps, even outlying areas and villages can be supplied with stored solar energy from groundwater. This type of system, using groundwater to...
Charging stations make green choices easier
It was the citizens' day on August 19th, when a new charging station in Avedøre Green City was inaugurated. Since the summer holiday, citizens with electric cars have been able to recharge under a solar roof. As one journalist wrote: "now citizens can drive on a ray...
Charging stations sheltered by power-producing roof in Avedøre Green City to be ready for use
Electric car owners from inside and outside the area can look forward to charging up in the shade of solar cells: The pioneering project in Avedøre Green City is almost built and will soon be ready for use. The locally owned charging stations will be inaugurated on 19...
Green Transport Under Green Roofs
"We really want our students and staff to cycle to work instead of taking the car - especially if the car runs on gas or diesel! That's why it's great that we've received money from Hvidovre Municipality's Green City Grant to put green roofs over the bike sheds, so...
XPRESS-webinar about the Energy Community on Samsø
The role of energy communities in Denmark is a hot topic. The role of citizens in the green transition is the subject of heated debate, and there are a lot of projects and activities going on around the country. On June 10, an XPRESS-supported webinar on the energy...
Women for Renewable Energy has a new Advisory Board
European Green Cities has administered the compilation of nominated experts from around the world, for the Europe-wide Women for Renewable Energy project. The W4RES Advisory Board is now in operation. The W4RES Advisory Board is composed of a multi-stakeholder list of...
Charging points sheltered by power-generating roof in Avedøre Green City
A ground-breaking project in Avedøre Green City is taking form. Being the first of its kind, a new sustainable and aestethic solution for sheltered charging points, is about to build. “The solarpower-sheltered charging points is a completely new way to think...
Women for renewable energy sources
We are pleased to announce that W4RES, a new Horizon 2020 project, has just kicked off and will run until October 2023 by an international consortium of 12 partners coming from 8 European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Slovakia....
Launch of XPRESS website
NEW ON XPRESS WEBSITE - discover all calls for tenders related to Renewable Energy Sources in Europe! See more here and subscribe to the newsletter here Read more on the project here
45 Norwegians on study tour in CPH
The Norwegians, all members of Grøn Byggeallianse (the Norwgian Green Building Council), were interested in learning more about circular economy in the building sector. Circular economy is an important focus point in building for tomorrow. The program for the two days...
New Smart City project: POCITYF
POCITYF is one of the European Union's "flagships". Together with Hvidovre Municipality, EGC is going to demonstrate Danish Smart City solutions in Avedøre Stationsby by Copenhagen. The new Smart City project is led by CERTH, a research institute from Tessaloniki,...
Seminar on Active Facades
IEA Task 56 and “Smart Energy Green Cities” inviteres to an afternoon seminar in Copenhagen. Join and get wiser on active solar facades' technologies and local energy communities. See the programme here: bit.ly/2BMCujP And a video...
RentalCal Tool
The RentalCal project has launched the result of 3 years work. The result is a tool that can support property owners and managers in calculating, how much an energy renovation project would cost, and the possible interest and improved (green) value, the investment...