Central Environmental and Energy Management as a kit for survival

Programme 2007 - 2013 Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

The regions of central Europe are characterised by a medium-high economic activity mainly performed by micro companies and small and medium sized enterprises, representing mostly traditional industrial sectors (i.e. construction and building, food, manufacturing, automotive). These companies have a strong impact on the environment; thus a key factor for sustainable economic development of this region is the implementation of environmentally friendly technologies in the production and process life cycle. In order to reach this goal, promotion of economic, social and environmental advantages of cleaner production and consumption processes, which are not yet sufficiently perceived as positive values, has to be strengthened. The CEEM project is addressing eco-energy performance of SMEs in participating regions, including the harmonisation of quality and efficiency parameters of the industrial sector through transnational cooperation.

Achievements (EN):

CEEM aims at increasing the environmental responsibility and improving the energy performances of companies of the Central European area by contributing to the promotion of environmentally friendly technologies to ensure eco-efficient production and consumption processes. These objectives are being reached providing Central European (CE) companies with an ICT tool (named Eco Energy Efficiency Management Tool, 3EMTool) to self assess their eco energy performance. The tool will be accessible through the CEEM website (www.ceemproject.eu) as an easy, user-friendly, free of charge tool for companies. It will be tested involving a sample of 500 Central European companies in order to create also the basis for a benchmarking activity. Out of this group, 100 case studies reports will be prepared to be discussed at Central European Policy level. The lessons drawn from the use of the Tool by the Central European companies involved will be collected in a Transnational Strategy Document to be adopted by regional/national policy makers responsible for environment protection and industry policies. In the period May-Nov.2013, CEEM partners have focused their attention on management issues and technical activities in order to complete the development of the Tool questionnaire and software. The 3EMTool, being the tool that CE companies will use to self assess the Eco Energy performance, is the base for the Pilot Action, whose results will offer the material for the involvement of CE policy makers in the last stage of the project. The 3EMTool is composed of a questionnaire, in which companies will enter their eco energy data. These, shall be elaborated by the software which will generate a Self Assessment Report. This is a status quo report, which analyzes Eco Energy performance of the company and gives a benchmark of its performance. The results of the efforts were presented at a Technical Meeting held in Trento, at Partner 3 premises on 2nd August 2013, in which technical partners discussed how to and make work together questionnaire, software and benchmarking methodology. Great attention was given to the completion of the benchmarking methodology. It shall start from statistical data on the consumption on energy in industry; in the progression of the Pilot Action, the benchmark will be conducted on Eco Energy data and information collected from the questionnaires filled by CE companies. This huge deal of information will allow CE companies to benchmark themselves and also thanks to the help given by Eco Energy experts involved in the pilot action.

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Green technologies SME and entrepreneurship Energy efficiency

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Friuli Innovazione, Centro di Ricerca e di Trasferimento Tecnologico

Address: via Jacopo Linussio 51, 33100 Udine, Italy

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Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region

Name: Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region

Address: piazza Unità d'Italia 1, 34121 Trieste, Italy

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Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Name: Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Address: via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy

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NORRIA Észak-Magyarországi Regionális Innovációs Ügynökség

Name: NORRIA Észak-Magyarországi Regionális Innovációs Ügynökség

Address: Széchenyi str. 107, 3525 Miskolc, Hungary

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Informationszentrum für umweltgerechte Produktion GmbH

Name: Informationszentrum für umweltgerechte Produktion GmbH

Address: Kärntner Strasse 2, 8054 Graz, Austria

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Institut Jozef Stefan

Name: Institut Jozef Stefan

Address: Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Centrum pro komunitní práci Střední Morava (CpKP)

Name: Centrum pro komunitní práci Střední Morava (CpKP)

Address: Kramarova 31, 75002 Prerov, Czech Republic

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Javna agencija za tehnološki razvoj Republike Slovenije

Name: Javna agencija za tehnološki razvoj Republike Slovenije

Address: Dunajska 22, 1511 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Bay Zoltán Alkalmazott Kutatási Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Name: Bay Zoltán Alkalmazott Kutatási Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft.

Address: Fehervári ut 130, 1116 Budapest, Hungary

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Innofinanz- Steiermärkische Forschungs- und Entwicklungsges.m.b.H. (SFG)

Name: Innofinanz- Steiermärkische Forschungs- und Entwicklungsges.m.b.H. (SFG)

Address: Reininghausstraße 13, 8020 Graz, Austria

Legal status: n/a

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Project name (EN): Central Environmental and Energy Management as a kit for survival

Project acronym: CEEM

Project start date: 2012-11-01

Project end date: 2012-11-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 603 860.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 281 327.00

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2007 - 2013 Central Europe

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

2014-10-01

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

124 / 124 (100%)

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

1 331 / 1 331 (100%)

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Central Environmental and Energy Management as a kit for survival

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