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www.housingeurope.eu/section-38/our-projects : 29-09-2023

Our Projects

We lead and take part in several European projects to translate our policy objectives into action.

Public, cooperative, and social housing providers are working on the new frontiers in our sector. Decarbonising homes in a just way, shaping exemplary neighbourhoods, relying on circularity to put precious materials into reuse, backing up decisions by data, lifting energy poverty, introducing shared mobility, setting up innovative finance schemes, you name it. Here are the projects we have already completed.

ARV is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project part of the EU Green Deal goal to build and renovate in an energy and resource-efficient way. The project aims to demonstrate and validate attractive, resilient, and affordable solutions for of Climate Positive Circular Communities (CPCC) that will significantly speed up the deep energy renovations and the deployment of energy and climate measures in the construction and energy industries. To achieve this, the ARV project will employ a novel concept relying on 6 demonstration urban regeneration projects representing different European climates and contexts with high ambitions in environmental, social and economic sustainability. The focus is on renovation of social housing and public buildings to demonstrate more than 50 innovations in more than 150,00 m2 of buildings. →

Build Up Speed

BuildUPspeed wants to accelerate the volume and depth of deep renovation of the EU building stock, supporting the EU Renovation Wave, by introducing and implementing a Market Activation Platform, to accelerate industrialised renovation solutions. The project will build upon the legacy, the approach and the results of several chapters of the ‘Energiesprong’ approach. Housing Europe will support business modelling and further market uptake of BuildUPspeed tools and services via the adoption of a large variety of distribution channels. Domofrance Logement Social based in Bordeaux and Instituto Valenciano de la Edificacion are the representation of the sector within the project. →

Drive 0

Drive 0 has a unique concept, offering efficient renovation solutions concerning energy, materials and costs, within innovative consumer-centred circular renovation processes. By implementing this concept, DRIVE 0 encourages a transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. →

drOp

In the industrial town Ermua, near Bilbao in the Basque Country, the Santa Ana neighbourhood with post-war privately-owned multifamily buildings is officially starting the work to become a lighthouse renovated district. Digitally enabled social district renovation processes for age-friendly environments driving social innovation and local economic development, or for short – drOp is Housing Europe's new project. This is more than an EU-funded initiative because it is very closely linked to the European Affordable Housing Constorium, SHAPE-EU which is demonstrating what do we mean by sustainable housing for social impact. →

European Affordable Housing Consortium, SHAPE-EU

10 partners shaping the envisaged by the Affordable Housing Initiative 100 lighthouse projects by creating blueprints for a just energy transition with affordability and liveability at its heart. The European Affordable Housing Consortium is the point of reference for a socially-inclusive Renovation Wave and New European Bauhaus, co-funded by the European Union's Single Market Programme →

GigaRegioFactory

The Life Giga Regio Factory project is based on the need for a change of scale in order to be able to target 10% of the market by 2030 and 1 million homes renovated to a guaranteed zero-energy level in an industrialised way in Europe. The project will develop an open-source tool for the qualification of housing in order to better qualify them and developing smarter aggregation strategy to launch large-scale collective industrial retrofits at zero-energy level. It will also coach companies that integrate and assemble industrial solutions to enable them to develop 100% industrialised offers. Within the project, we will work closely with EST metropole habitat and the Association des Organismes HLM Auvergne Rhone Alpes. →

MATRYCS

MATRYCS or Modular Big Data Applications for Holistic Energy Services in Buildings is a project that brings together 18 partners from 10 European countries aiming to provide a holistic open solution for decision-making and data analytics solution for energy-efficient buildings. Housing Europe will work on capitalising on the project results and on the demonstrator outcomes and best practices identified so as to design European, national or regional policies. →

METABUILDING Labs

To reach the COP21 goal of nearly-zero energy, zero emission buildings MBLabs strives to unleash the innovation potential of the SMEs of the Construction sector by lowering the entry barriers to test innovative solutions in a network of testing facilities in RTOs and Living Labs in 13 countries, most EU member states, allowing a direct feedback from the end-users during the final development stages. →

NRG2Peers

The main aim of NRG2peers is to support the uptake of a next generation of European peer-to-peer Energy Communities. NRG2peers sets up a gamified platform in three levels, supporting residential energy communities to increase energy efficiency and to integrate a higher share of renewable energy. →

RE-SKIN

Housing Europe continues the mission of our completed HEART project - to ride the Renovation Wave by developing and testing an integrated and multifunctional system for energy retrofit of buildings. The work will be organised in two main subsystems, roof and façade, combined with the building’s HVAC system. We test innovative renovation methods with two social housing demo sites, one owned by Vilogia in Northern France, and a second owned by VIPASA in Asturias in Spain. →

SHARE-North Squared

This is an Interreg North Sea project co-funded by the European Union that aims to increase the sustainability, resource and spatial efficiency of real estate developments as well as the affordability of housing by integrating shared mobility as a means of supporting multimodal travel behaviour and reducing car ownership, car dependency and the demand for parking. →

SUPER-i

The SUPER-i project officially kicked off in September 2021. Supported by Horizon 2020 funding, the project will run for 3 years and will focus on developing extended Public-Private Partnership for investment in smart energy efficiency in social housing. →

SUPERSHINE

SUPERSHINE started in mid-November in Rome with the ambition to implement innovative renovation of social and affordable housing in three demonstrator lighthouse districts in Italy, Denmark, and Latvia as well providing blueprints for follow-up districts. These are among the first lighthouse districts receiving EU funding as part of the EU Affordable Housing Initiative that will be supported by the European Affordable Housing Consortium, SHAPE-EU. Particular attention will be paid to the renovation of social housing, to help households who struggle to pay their energy bills. →

Syn.ikia

Syn.ikia aims at achieving sustainable plus energy neighbourhoods. This will be achieved while ensuring high-quality indoor environment and well-being. The main strategy for achieving these goals is to deliver a blueprint for sustainable plus energy buildings and neighbourhoods, leading the way to plus energy districts and cities. →