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Project co-financé par le Fonds Européen de Développement Régional – FEDER Project co-financed by European Regional Development Fund - ERDF

MED Programme

Priority‐Objective 2‐2: Promotion and renewable energy

and improvement of energy efficiency

Contract n. IS‐MED10‐029

CAPITALISATION PLAN

Author: Mathilde Dioudonnat and Audrey Séon

Mediterranean Institute

Project co-financé par le Fonds Européen de Développement Régional – FEDER

Project co-financed by European Regional Development Fund - ERDF

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1. Introduction

After the first enlargements of the European Economic Community and the resulting increase of

disparities within regions, the Single European Act adopted in 1986 set up the basis of the cohesion

policy. On 24 June 1988, the Council adopted the first regulation integrating the Structural Funds –

which benefited from a remarkable increase of their resources - under the umbrella of Cohesion

Policy. This regulation introduced key principles such as focusing on the poorest and most backward

regions, multi-annual programming, strategic orientation of investments and the involvement of

regional and local partners.

In 1990, on the basis of the first returns of experience concerning the implementation of some pilot

projects, the European Commission created the INTERREG Community Initiative, which promoted

cross-border cooperation between neighbouring regions and financed projects that involved local

and regional governments, but also NGOs, Universities, research centres, etc. Territorial cooperation

was supposed to support an endogenous phenomenon of catching up but it has been regularly

criticized for the lack of visibility of its results and the scattering of resources that prevented from

identifying any convergence between the involved regions. Capitalisation – as a mean to exploit

commonly the results of several projects and ensure long lasting effects - has been identified as a

possible way to upgrade territorial cohesion and to improve its convergent effect. In 2006, INTERREG

programs became part of the third objective – European territorial cooperation - of the cohesion

policy, together with the convergence and competitiveness objectives.

Today, ELIH-MED framework has been shaped by this twenty-year territorial cooperation process.

Because ELIH-MED aims to have a strategic dimension, through the articulation of several levels of

actors and through a direct investment in territories, it illustrates the evolution of cooperation

projects and the importance of capitalisation as a mean of integrating past experiences in order to

adjust the new programs and elaborate and implement new projects which are more relevant and

impacting. ELIH-MED capitalisation strategy is embedded in this incremental process. In

consequence, ELIH-MED capitalisation strategy aims at making a step forward through its

contribution to the elaboration of the next programming period contents.

2. What does capitalisation mean ?

Capitalisation is a mandatory work package in ELIH-Med, defined in the terms of reference of the first

strategic call for proposals of the MED program. Capitalisation could be defined in a general way as

the strategy and process that will allow to ensure a long term, deep and concrete impact of the

project activities and results on public policies at local, regional, national and European level.



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Capitalisation is a process that goes further than the specific project implementation. Its scope is

broader than ELIH-MED scope and it covers all the initiatives that share some of the preoccupations

and objectives of ELIH-MED. Above all, a capitalisation process aims at creating a cumulative effect,

not only on the basis of the aggregation of projects results but also at a program level through the

convergence of indicators, strategic objectives and proposals to strengthen cooperation process

impacts within the mainstream framework of European policies.

Key dimensions of capitalisation

It is worth launching capitalisation activities if basic evaluation criteria are positive. This means that

at least, the capitalized project and its results have to be relevant, effective, efficient, and

sustainable, and they have to bring an added value to the already existing experiences and policies.

The objectives of capitalisation process rely on eight interdependent key dimensions:

“The partnership and the involvement of key actors (1) inside the projects create a collective action

(cooperation) that implement networking activities (2) for realising innovations (3). These

innovations should be (4) integrated in mainstream policies and should influence (5) the governance

setting. Networks and innovations should be (6) transferable and (7) sustainable in the

Mediterranean, in order to reach larger areas and more citizens. (…) Capitalisation (8) itself

represents a learning dimension.”1

3. Capitalisation objectives

ELIH-Med capitalisation activities will in general be framed by the EU2020 strategy and the

discussions about the next programming period priorities. They will try to fit with the pan-European

objectives and they will also constitute inputs for the 2014-2020 operational programs. In particular,

they will:

- Ensure the integration of experimentation results (financing mechanisms, technical solutions

and participative approaches) into national, regional and local public policies on energy

efficiency in low income housing and help them meet EU’s 20/20/20 objectives

- Boost energy efficiency investments in low income housing through the creation, transfer,

combination and adaptation of innovative financing mechanisms in the Mediterranean area

1 Extract of the methodology and operative plan for the implementation of the MED Program‘s capitalisation –

Cespi - Rome



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- Have feedback on the actual use of structural funds for energy efficiency and facilitate the

achievement of 4% ERDF allocation objective for the housing sector and pave the way for a

more important role of ERDF in energy efficiency in building

- Develop and get political consensus on a transnational operational program on energy efficiency

in low income housing as a component of a macroregional strategy in the Mediterranean area

for the next programming period.

The ELIH-MED capitalisation will particularly focus on the following aspects:

- Innovation: thanks to the guidelines planned in capitalisation activities, ELIH-MED

partners will promote and disseminate innovative financing mechanisms, technical

solutions and participative approaches they will have implemented during the project

execution.

- Sustainability and transferability of the project results: through the elaboration of

guidelines and the partners’ commitments, ELIH-MED partners will ensure the continuity

and long-term impact of the results over the end of the project and facilitate the transfer

and implementation of their methods and process in other territories.

- Networking: through the capitalisation workshops, ELIH-MED partners will gather

expertise, competences and experiences from multilevel key actors. This networking

activity will be useful to create a strong consensus on the LIH priority. ELIH-MED partners

will also participate to clusters of projects within the MED program capitalisation

activities.

- Integration of the project outputs in mainstream policies: the elaboration of an

operational program on energy efficiency to be integrated in the next programming period

will constitute the main lever to integrate project results into mainstream policies.

Partners’ commitments will also be strong tools to improve the integration of EE issues

into local and regional policies.

- Governance: All the capitalisation activities will intend to enhance governance settings in

the EE domain by identifying innovative tools and processes able to improve the efficiency

of public policies. Capitalisation activities will focus on the improvement of adapted

governance frameworks. Above-mentioned clusters could also focus on governance issues

and take part to the discussions on governance tools, which will be encouraged by ELIH-

MED partners.

ELIH-MED capitalisation process will target several levels of decision in order to impact policy-

making at local, regional, national and European level. Identification of main actors at each

level will be an important work in order to succeed in mainstreaming our results. In strong

resonance with the communication activities, all the ELIH-MED partners will be involved in

these processes at local and regional levels. In each country, a partner will be responsible for

the capitalisation of ELIH-MED results at national level. LP and work package coordinators, with

the support of GERES and CPMR will be in charge of the capitalisation at Euro-Mediterranean

level.



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4. Background of ELIH-MED capitalisation strategy

� Project objectives, deliverables and results as the inputs of the capitalisation strategy

The capitalisation strategy will depend on the project objectives achievement and it will be effective

once the first deliverables and results allow ELIH-MED partners to share their common experience. In

fact, the quality of capitalisation will partly come from the quality of the project implementation.

ELIH-MED has been conceived as an operational project focused on pilot refurbishing operations in

ten territories. The conclusions that will be drawn up from this experimentation sample will

constitute key assets for the capitalisation process.

ELIH-MED expected results

Analysis of current situation:

- State-of-the-art of the actual context in terms of EE policies and regulation frameworks in

participating countries

- Identified best practices

- State-of-the-art on smart metering

Studies, elaboration of tools and scenarios

- Typology of LIH

- Identified innovative financial mechanisms

- Trend-setting strategy on EE in LIH

- Transnational coordinated plan on experimentation

Experimentation results

- Return of experiences about the awareness campaigns

- Feedbacks, conclusions and evaluation of the experimentation process of dwelling refurbishing

- Feedbacks, conclusions and experimentation on the smart-meters installation

� Associated partners as key actors of the capitalisation process

Since the beginning of the project preparation phase, several private and public organizations have

been contacted to become associated partners. They were not able to join the project as full partners

but they were very interested in supporting the project implementation process. They all signed a

support letter and some of them have already participated in the kick-off conference.



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At the moment, associated partners constitute both a resource and a potential priority target for the

project, in terms of dissemination and capitalisation.

Any organization interested in becoming an associated partner can join the project. It is an open

group.

Associated partners will be invited to participate in the capitalisation workshops (see below Section

6). To facilitate their involvement and to respond to their expectations from the project, interviews

will be organized with each of them. They will also be considered as potential speakers when project

partners organize events. They will receive updated information on project activities during all the

duration of the project.

Cf. list of associated partners in annex 1

� Common capitalisation with other projects: contacts and discussions

During the project preparation, capitalisation was a common preoccupation of several candidate

projects. Principles concerning common capitalisation activities have been established during this

preliminary step. Once the strategic projects approved by the MED Program selection committee,

meetings and discussions went on concerning capitalisation, more precisely with MARIE project.

ENEA and IM representatives also took part to the MED Program capitalisation meeting on 28th

June

2011 in Rome.

IM has also identified opportunities of capitalisation with CATMED project in cooperation with

Malaga City Council, lead partner of CATMED and partner of ELIH-MED.

IM organized and participated to a meeting with Mr. Gordon Sutherland from the Executive Agency

for Competitiveness and Innovation (AECI), responsible for the Intelligent Energy Europe program.

This meeting was a first opportunity to identify possible synergies with projects financed by the IEE.

5. Synergies

The ELIH-MED capitalisation strategy will intend to create and strengthen synergies in the following

frameworks:

At project level:

- ELIH-MED communication strategy: capitalisation and communication are strongly dependent

from each other. Capitalisation will benefit from a good communication strategy



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implementation and will extend its effects. But both need to have the same key messages and

share common targets.

At MED program level:

- MED program capitalisation study and process: there is an ongoing study led by CESPI for the

MED Program JTS in order to accompany and support the capitalisation process at MED program

level. ELIH-MED will fully take part in this process and will be proactive, this initiative being a

clear asset for the project capitalisation process with other MED projects.

- Negotiations on the future programming: closely linked to the MED capitalisation process, the

future negotiations concerning the next programming period are clearly identified by ELIH-MED

partners as the main opportunity to integrate their results in the mainstream of cooperation

policies.

At Euro-Mediterranean level:

- Existing initiatives and experiences: there are a lot of projects in several cooperation programs

but also at local, regional and national levels, that deal with energy efficiency in low-income

housing. The capitalisation strategy will aim at identifying the most relevant ones and sharing

experience with them, always targeting innovation in terms of financial mechanisms, technical

solutions and participative approaches adapted to low-income households in the Mediterranean

(cf Annex 2).

- Existing networks and lobbies: part of these networks and lobbies have already been identified

(CECODHAS, FEBEA, etc.) but ELIH-MED partners have to invent the way of working together

concretely, with the transfer of the project results and innovation at a larger scale as an

objective.

- Discussions about the macroregional concept: the initial objective of ELIH-MED WP3 Activity 4 is

the elaboration of a macroregional operational program on energy efficiency. Consequently,

ELIH-MED capitalisation process will integrate discussion groups on macroregional approaches

and will include this dimension in its activities.



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6. Description of the capitalisation activities

� Elaboration of guidelines

Description

Elaboration of a series of three multilingual guidelines on:

- Cost-effective refurbishment solutions in Med LIH addressed to

owners, technicians and professionals;

- Innovative financing and use of the structural funds to invest in

energy performance specifically addressed to financial

institutions (banks…);

- EE policies in Med LIH addressed to local and regional

authorities.

Specific objectives

These guidelines will gather all the available information and best

practices concerning the three above-mentioned topics. They will

establish a balance of the experimentation at the project level and will

give recommendations for transferability and adaptation of the ELIH-

Med experimentation processes.

Decision-makers to be

involved

ELIH-MED partners

Responsible partner Mediterranean Institute

External expertise Support of the TC experts or external experts if necessary

Steps

- Creation of a working group among ELIH-MED partners

- Definition of a working method and the targeted public (for

dissemination) for each set of guidelines

- Identification of the needed competences and demand for

experts’ support

- Elaboration of the outline for each set of guidelines and

validation by the partners

- Collection of all the material taking into account the

capitalisation workshops conclusions and the large scale

experimentation feedbacks

- Elaboration of the contents with the support of all the partners

- Translation

- Editing and printing

- Dissemination

Indicative time frame January 2012 – March 2014 (end of the project)



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� Partners’ commitment

Description

All the partners will integrate in their objectives and action plans (i.e

operational program for regions, municipal strategy for cities) three

mechanisms or activities in line with the achieved project results. This

mainstreaming process implies a strong lobby and the implication of

political representatives and/or decision-makers in the project in order

to convince them of the importance of re-evaluating their strategy on

the basis of the project results.

In order to monitor this mainstreaming process, the WP coordinator will

elaborate a questionnaire to evaluate how stakeholders and partners

will concretely integrate project results in their policies, projects and

practices (i.e. modification of subvention terms of reference for workings

subvention, modification of their convention with social housing

operators, transferability of the collaborative process tested during the

project…). The WP coordinator will sum up and consolidate all the

information about partners and stakeholders’ commitments. This report

on project results sustainability and long-term impacts will be presented

during the closing conference.

Specific objectives

Through these multiform commitments, partners will ensure the

integration of project results into their policies and action plans.

The questionnaire will be a tool to gather information concerning the

integration of project results in a long-term perspective. It will allow the

census of partners and stakeholders' concrete commitments.

The report will present a synthesis of actions to be implemented in order

to capitalize on the projects achievements in a long-term perspective.


involved

Mayors, presidents of regions, directors and board of directors of

partners’ institutions

Responsible partner Mediterranean Institute

Steps

- During the project, involvement of political representatives and

directors in project events and activities

- Selection by each partner of at least three mechanisms to be

integrated into the mainstream strategy (policies, action plans,

creation of new funds, etc.)

- Elaboration of the questionnaire by the WP coordinator

- Partners fill in the questionnaire, describing the chosen mechanisms

and the next steps to be followed in order to implement them

- Synthesis and elaboration of the monitoring report

- Integration of the chosen actions into local (e.g. Local Plan for

Housing) and regional policies (e.g. ERDF Operational Program) by

each partner.

Indicative time frame December 2013 – March 2014 (end of the project)



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� Capitalisation workshops

Description

Organisation of capitalisation events and workshops with other MED

(classic and strategic) projects, with projects implemented in the

framework of CONCERTO and IEE programs, with networks (Convenant

of the Mayors, CECODHAS, ICLEI, CGLU-Med, etc.) and with

Euromediterranean projects that could be implemented within ENPI,

UfM or any other cooperation process (i.e. BEI convention) in order to

take into account Southern Mediterranean EE LIH context. These

workshops will be composed of two sessions: the first one will aim at

sharing experiences and recommendations, the second one will allow

the co-elaboration of a common strategic approach of Med LIH thanks to

the SWOT method or any similar one. Their outputs will also be used to

prepare the two international conferences.

Specific objectives The workshops will serve to draw up common conclusions that will

constitute strong inputs to adjust the operational program contents

(common issues, common objectives).


involved All the decision-makers working on EE projects in LIH, policymakers in

the EE domain, representatives of cooperation programs ...

Responsible Mediterranean Institute

Steps

- Identification of key actors in different programs, projects,

institutions…

- Definition of objectives for each workshop2

- Elaboration of workshops methodologies

- Organization of the workshops

- Elaboration of minutes and redaction of a global synthesis

Indicative time frame Jan. 2012, May 2012, Jan. 2013, Sept. 2013

2 Proposals on Capitalization Workshops’ focuses: financing mechanisms, mobilization of political

actors, multilevel coordination of policies, governance …



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� Development of a macroregional operational program on EE in LIH in the Mediterranean

area

Description

Consensus building process that includes the organisation of meetings in

order to inform and grow awareness among the European Commission,

Member States and Mediterranean regions, to convince them of the

interest of building an operational program on energy efficiency in

Mediterranean housing. Elaboration of a contribution to this operational

program on the basis of large consultations at different levels and in

parallel with ongoing discussions concerning the contents of the next

programming period. This contribution, together with the results of the

consensus building process, will be presented during the closing

international conference.

Specific objectives

Integration of the project results into the structural funds mainstream

via the elaboration of an operational program on energy efficiency in

Mediterranean housing; this OP could be implemented in a macro-

regional perspective.


involved

MED program representatives, Member States representatives,

European Commission representatives, representatives of regional

councils, all the institutions and organizations that deal with EE in the

Med area

Responsible Mediterranean Institute

Steps

- Constitution of a working group at macroregional scale, integrating

MED Program representatives, project representatives, Euro-

Mediterranean institutions representatives, etc.

- Establishment of a calendar of meetings and a methodology

- Round of discussions on the macro regional approach, the priorities

in terms of EE, the MED specificities, feedbacks on existing

experiences, innovative financings

- Elaboration of a consensual proposal

- Discussions and amendments

- Approbation by the working group representatives’ organizations

- Validation by ELIH-MED partners

- Official sending to MED Member States

Indicative frame work 1st

meeting of BEEMED platform in Barcelona on 19th

October 2011

Mainly in 2013 and 2014



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7. Next steps

- Validation of the capitalisation strategy by the steering committee in Cyprus (September 2011)

- Organization of a first capitalisation workshop in January 2012

- Creation of the ELIH-MED working group on guidelines (1st phase)

- Creation of a working group on the macroregional operational program



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ANNEX 1: List of ELIH-MED associated partners

Institution Country Name of the Signatory

Charge

Generalitat Valenciana Spain Jesus Rodriguez Ortiz

General director of housing and urban projects.

European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers

Belgium Jef Tavernier General Secretary

Comité de Liaison Energies renouvelables

France Raphaël Claustre Manager

Consortium CEV Italy Gianfranco Fornasiero

President

European Federation of social, cooperative and public housing

Belgium Claire Roumet General Secretary

Instituto para la Diversificacion y Ahorro de la Energía

Spain Enrique Jimenez Larrea

General Director

Sardinia Region Italy Ugo Capellacci President

ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability

Germany Maryke Van Staden

Coordinator CCP Campaign

ICIC – Servizi di Certificazione per la Ediliza

Italy Gaetano Bruno Director

Confederazione Nazionale dell'Artigianato e della Piccola e Media Impresa.

Italy Tommaso Campanile

Responsible department Competitiveness Environment

CETENMA Centro Tecnologico de la Energia y del medio Ambiente

Spain Gemma Castejón

Director

ALEM: Agencia Local de la Energia y Cambio Climatico de Murcia

Spain Maria Cruz FERREIRA-COSTA

Director

ARGEM – Agencia de Gestión de Energía de la Región de Murcia Spain José Pablo

Delgado Marín

Technical Department Coordinator.



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ANNEX 2: List of MED projects that deal with energy and governance

• 2InSClusters

• CATMED

• EASY FINANCE

• ENERMED

• Enerscapes

• IC-MED

• INSMED

• IRHMED

• MARIE

• MED TECHNOPOLIS

• MED-IPPC-Net

• MEDEEA,

• MEDGOVERNANCE

• Proforbiomed

• SCORE

• Teenergy Schools

• ZERO CO2

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