Most cities have one or several local programs to help inhabitants and companies reduce their energy consumption. However, these programs often appears technical, red-tape-laden, time consuming with a high degree of uncertainty to reach actual retrofitting and ultimately energy (and money) savings. This session proposes to present diverse local and European projects : AMELIO by Lille Metropole, AREA21 by HafenCity University Hamburg, and STARDUST by Trento City. All are using new methods to face the difficulties that cities have in designing local energy retrofitting services. New participatory methods are used to make sure programs are in line with people's actual needs and fight difficulties to involve stakeholders and consumers through traditional participatory methods.

The focus will be set on the co-creation of these policies and the session will also therefore touch upon governance questions. Discussion and workshops will be moderated by Greenovate Europe!.

13h30 - Coffee and registration

14h - Welcoming words and introduction

- Christophe Bolot, Head of Lille Metropole EU Office

14h10 - European trends and opportunities by the EC

- Pau Garcia Audi, European Commission, DG ENER

14h25 - Introduction of projects by Greenovate Europe!

- Guillaume Corradino, Director of Operations

14h30 - Projects presentations

AMELIO by Lille Metropole

- Laura Dupuis, Project manager

AREA21 by HafenCity University Hamburg

- Prof. Jörg Knieling, Team leader

STARDUST & SINFONIA by EURAC Research

- Alyona Zubaryeva, Project Manager

15h30 - Roundtable discussions

16h - Conclusion