Country Initiative
The mission of our Country Initiative is to strengthen capacity at Member State level:
- Institutional capacity in developing and delivering programmes,
- Technical capacity in developing and implementing building codes,
- Communication capacity in convincing the households and the other stakeholders to engage in building or upgrading energy efficient homes and especially in the case of deep renovations.
As the renovation of the building stock in Romania is of dramatic importance – as in most Eastern and Middle European countries -, BPIE launched in March 2011 a Country Initiative to act as a catalyser for change. The objectives are to bring the various stakeholders in Romania together, establish a dialogue, define market barriers to overcome and finally to develop potential solutions that are adapted to the national market conditions.
Other Country Initiatives are foreseen in the near future.
The Romanian Country Initiative debuted its activity with the organisation of a workshop on March 24th at the Chamber of Commerce in Bucharest, gathering around one table key stakeholder groups such as governmental authorities (the Ministry for Regional Development and Tourism responsible for buildings policy, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environment), municipalities (e.g. City of Bucharest), the construction industry, associations for housing, employer associations, local banks and European financial institutions managing European funding (European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development).
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A second workshop was organised on March 16th. The objective of the event was to
examine how to better access European funding sources for making large scale (deep) retrofits happen in Romania.
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On 12 and 13th of July, BPIE's Country Initiative Manager, Serban Danciu, participated at the meeting organized as part of the Build-Up Romania - Robust project, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Contact our Country Initiative manager in Romania Serban Danciu: serban.danciu@bpie.eu
