ENERGE - Energizing Education to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions​, addresses this need using targeted physical interventions that combine a web based platform & building sensors (e.g. electrical, thermal etc) with behavioural studies & new educational approaches that enable schools engage in energy & GHG mitigation. 

ENERGE is demonstrated in schools in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. ENERGE aims at reducing the energy consumption at 13 demonstration site schools over the project period. It engages and enables management, teachers, students and maintenance staff (entire school ecosystem) to reduce energy consumption by developing a new web-based platform tailored to different stakeholder within the school ecosystem. Long-term impacts will be consolidated by the development of additional and revised educational material to supplement existing school curricula (for students aged 12-18 i.e. formative years).

ENERGE will track the effects of project initiatives in the school environment and with individual students to monitor how interventions in school can have wider impacts in terms of students’ attitudes and behaviours. ENERGE committees are established in the demonstration schools to provide a focus for transnational engagement of the project schools, long-term studies of the project impact and to enable the whole school community to engage with & sustain energy efficiency & GHG mitigation practices.

Start date: 2019 - End date: 2023

Partners

• Centre-Val de Loire Region
• Delft University of Technology
• CASTeL Dublin City University
• University of Luxembourg
• R2M Solution LTD

More information here.