Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

Programme 2014 - 2020 Mediterranean Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2024-03-25

Description

Description (EN):

Low energy educational buildings are becoming the standard for new buildings in European and Mediterranean countries. Technical solutions are continuously developed by universities for eco-sustainable building renovation, but there is still a gap between designed models and their actual application. This is due to several barriers, such as the insufficient collaboration between key actors and the lack of efficient suitable tools from the public sector to develop solutions. The Med-EcoSuRe project offers an innovative approach to the definition and diffusion of cost-effective energy renovation within university buildings, with the perspective of extending results to the whole public buildings sector in the long term. A Mediterranean cross-border living lab - bringing together researchers, building managers, companies, public organisations and students - will be established to develop energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions as well as retrofitting schemes to be implemented in 9 university buildings. The final aim behind the project is to turn university managers into active players contributing to the co-creation and experimentation of emerging ideas, breakthrough scenarios and innovative concepts.

Achievements (EN):

ed-EcoSuRe, a cross border cooperation project that has been running for 4 years, has come to end ! The project did propose and implement innovative and eco-sustainable renovation process for university buildings in the Mediterranean while adopting a Living Lab approach, while actively involving the environment of the universities (decision makers, academics, energy managers..) to co-create the renovation process, and this through developing and making available a number of design and planning tools, training and capacity building programms, pilot actions, and strategic plans for mid and long term renovation. Med-EcoSuRe shares its innovative renovation Guidelines for sustainable and efficient buildings Med-EcoSuRe undertook universities, as the most fertile ground and space to grow open innovation, to experiment with new processes and solutions providing proofs of concepts and giving the possibility to educate towards more sustainable building renovation. The implementation of the innovative and eco-sustainable renovations was supported by the creation of university-based Living Lab (LL), to overcome the fragmentation of renovation processes in Med uni buildings and in particular in Tunisia, Italy, Spain and Palestine. This Inclusive approach enabled the university community (energy managers, decision makers, academics, end users) to contribute to co-create the renovation process and to achieve the common goals of more sustainable uni buildings, in terms of EE and environmental impact, and also in terms of wellbeing and aesthetics, as well as increased environmental awareness of users. Several RE and EE measures were selected and implemented in three universities based on recommendations drawn from energy audits and through surveys (for emerging solutions), workshops and courses, while exploiting a set of tools developed as a decision support to efficiently design, plan and evaluate the renovation process. The implemented measures enabled to save up to 148 k€/Y and avoid around 510 tCO2/Y. Guidelines were produced to disseminate the innovative process and Recommendations & Best Practices resulting from the concretization and implementation phases of the LL workflow, which willfacilitate the replication and scaling-up of the innovative renovation actions implemented, leading to a wider impact.

Website: http://www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/med-ecosure

Expected Results (EN):

6 toolkits of passive solutions design for higher education buildings retrofitting. 2 policy tools for energy efficiency retrofit in higher education buildings. 6 cross-border strategic plans for university building retrofitting. 6 energy audits performed in selected higher education institutions. 9 energy efficiency retrofitting pilot actions.

Expected Outputs (EN):

3.1 - Toolkit of Passive Solutions Design for Higher Education Buildings Retrofitting, 4.1 - Policy and Project tools for Energy-Efficiency retrofit in Higher Education Buildings, 4.2 - Cross border strategic Plan for University Building Retrofitting, 5.1 - Energy Audit Report for selected Higher Education Institutions, 5.2 - Technology transfer for Higher Education Buildings Retrofitting, 5.3 - REEE Pilot initiatives.

Thematic information

Construction and renovation Energy efficiency

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Centre Méditerranéen des Energies Renouvelables

Address: 1 Avenue Japan, Administrative City 1073 Montplaisir - BP 213Tunis, Tunisia

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.medrec.org/

Total budget: EUR 441 571.32

ENI budget: EUR 397 414.18

جامعة النجاح الوطنية

Name: جامعة النجاح الوطنية

Department: Energy Research Centre

Address: Rafidia, P.O.Box 7Nablus, Palestine

Legal status: n/a

Website: https://www.najah.edu/en/

Total budget: EUR 586 618.20

ENI budget: EUR 527 956.38

ANEA - Agenzia Napoletana per l’Energia e l’Ambiente

Name: ANEA - Agenzia Napoletana per l’Energia e l’Ambiente

Address: Via Toledo 317 , 80134 Napoli, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.anea.eu

Total budget: EUR 250 574.25

ENI budget: EUR 225 516.83

Asociación Española para la Internacionalización y la Innovación de las empresas Solares

Name: Asociación Española para la Internacionalización y la Innovación de las empresas Solares

Address: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 774, 4, 8013 Barcelona, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.solartys.org

Total budget: EUR 234 357.70

ENI budget: EUR 210 921.93

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Name: Università degli Studi di Firenze

Department: Dipartimento di Architettura DIDA – Centro ABITA

Address: Piazza San Marco 4Florence, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.centroabita.unifi.it

Total budget: EUR 497 469.91

ENI budget: EUR 447 722.92

Universidad de Sevilla

Name: Universidad de Sevilla

Department: Departamento de Ingeniería Energética. Grupo de Termotecnia

Address: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería -Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.us.es

Total budget: EUR 268 683.50

ENI budget: EUR 241 815.15

جامعة تونس المنار

Name: جامعة تونس المنار

Department: Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis

Address: Campus Universitaire Farhat Hached d’El Manar, B.P n 94 Rommana 168Tunis, Tunisia

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.utm.rnu.tn

Total budget: EUR 570 100.55

ENI budget: EUR 513 090.50

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Mediterranean Renewable Energy Centre

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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An-Najah National University - Energy Research Centre

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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Naples Agency for Energy and Environment

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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Spanish association for the internationalization and innovation of solar companies

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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University of Florence

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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University of Seville - Thermothecnics Group at Thermal Energy Engineering Department

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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University of Tunis El Manar

Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

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Summary

Project name (EN): Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation

Project acronym: Med-EcoSuRe

Project start date: 2019-09-01

Project end date: 2022-08-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 934 856.69

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 641 371.02

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 2 641 371.02.

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2014 - 2020 Mediterranean Sea Basin ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-02-09

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

80 / 80 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

610 / 610 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.enicbcmed.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-28. Fields project name (from 3 projects) translated from French into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: RESMYLE, OENOMED and RE-MED.

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