BELIEF

Building in Europe Local Intelligent Energy Forums

Summary
BELIEF will promote the Sustainable Energy Communities concept at European scale, setting up Local Intelligent Energy Forums in 20 communities from 11 European countries, including representatives from New Member States and Candidate Countries.

Each community will involve relevant local stakeholders. Together, they will prepare a Sustainable Energy Action Plan in line with an investment plan containing sufficient economic resources to implement their local initiatives and activities.

Objectives

• Setting up Local Intelligent Energy Forums in 20 European communities
• Formalising methodologies and preparing tools
• Improving capacity building of the 20 BELIEF communities involved
• Disseminating information, shining examples, results, methodologies and tools towards European local authorities focussing on New Member States and Candidate Countries

Expected results:

• Creating a group of local EU pioneers showing new ways for the future
• Consolidating (and in some ways inventing), a EU replicable concept in line with the EU priorities on energy, sustainability, competitiveness and innovation
• Using more advanced experiences to provide knowledge and know-how to the less advanced communities via the exchange of good practice
• Disseminating information and methodologies widely throughout Europe, demonstrating that new ways can be generalised everywhere
• Significantly improving the existing levels of energy efficiency and use of RES in BELIEF communities thus bringing together local stakeholders and facilitating the way forward for larger scale investments