The 3-NITY Work Packages
WP1 - Management
The purpose of project management is to control, secure and constantly seek to improve the progress of the project. Consortium agreement and handling of contracted work-program is within the scope. Monitoring of progress and performance, the management of the consortium with management tools and regular meetings is a part of WP 1. The overall communication and contact with the EC are key issues.
WP2 – Review, state of the art
The objective is to understand the main mechanisms affecting the development of SECs. This will be achieved by interviewing target groups that are related to the previously established SEC, as well as the SECs participating in the project.
WP3 – Sustainable Planning
This WP of the 3-NITY initiative aims to further develop an existing tool for local energy planning, prepared for active involvement by several levels in the local community i.e. politicians, planners, energy experts and consultants. The basis for the tool will be the existing KRAM model, which was successfully developed by Chalmers (Sweden) in the 1990’s. The output from the planning tool will be popularized and used for involvement of citizens (WP6)
WP4 – Sustainable Measures and Activities
This WP of the 3-NITY project aims to engage citizens and local energy actors to actively participate in local energy planning and implementation of sustainable energy measures. This will be achieved by providing a series of local events, state-of-the-art tools and methodologies at the disposal of the municipal administration, the commercial energy actors, the local schools and the citizens.
WP5 – Sustainable Excellence
The objective for this part of the 3-NITY project is to make use of the already existing framework of Public Sector Performance Groups sponsored by EFQM, and to establish a new group called “Sustainable Energy Communities”. Furthermore the WP will develop a tool for monitoring and measuring qualitative and quantitative results, mainly based on the EFQM-excellence model for local governments and municipalities.
WP6 – Project specific information and dissemination
This WP will disseminate the results in two main directions:
1. internally- within the participating SECs and their stakeholders
2. externally - to potentially new SECs and stakeholders to support replication to multiple SECs across Europe.
WP7 – Common dissemination activities
The WP will ensure widespread and target oriented dissemination of the developed guidelines and other deliverables with a view to promoting SEC’s around Europe. The key means of dissemination will be a project website and a quarterly E-Newsletter targeting local authorities and other relevant actors at a broad EU level. Further to this the specific outcome of the project cases will be disseminated at seminars and related means on a European, National and regional scale.