PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
The project intends to reflect cross-border challenges and opportunities for sustainable building renovation in the private and public sectors in three Central European countries that share common historical and economic traditions, similar building stock and construction industry culture manifested in building practice. The main objective of the proposal is to develop action plans on smart investments in sustainable renovation of buildings for 2025-2030 for Austria, Hungary and Slovenia though the establishment three national roundtables building on the activities of the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums. RENOINVEST provides a platform for open dialogue involving key financial, private and public experts through the green finance thematic working group activities to identify barriers to the upscaling of long-term financing instruments and propose improvements to support the development of large-scale investment programmes in existing private and public buildings. Three national policy briefs and a cross-border recommendation package will also be delivered. Assessing the implementation of the Long-term building renovation strategies and documents and reviewing of existing financial solutions and market conditions for stimulating financing of energy efficiency improvement of the existing building stock is an important starting point of the project. Sharing knowledge among project partners, experts, national stakeholders and similar EU projects three international cross-border exchange events with site-visits will be organised in order to showcase collected 50+ good practices and elaborate six case studies to foster the roll out of smart financing possibilities. The added value of RENOINVEST is that the consortium provids specific technical knowledge by involving key actors representing legislative advisory organisations, research institutes, large engineering companies, SMEs and financial experts in three CE countries fostering sustainable investments.