Roundtables enhancing smart investments in sustainable renovation of buildings

Introduction

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.

Objectives

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 through the establishment of three national roundtables building on the activities of the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums.

1. Action Plans: Develop action plans for sustainable renovation.
2. National Roundtables: Establish three national roundtables.
3. Open Dialogue: Provide a platform for open dialogue involving key financial, private, and public experts.

Key Activities

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.

• Deliverables: Three national policy briefs and a cross-border recommendation package will also be delivered.

Assessment and Review

Assessing the implementation of the Long-term building renovation strategies and documents and reviewing 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.

Knowledge Sharing

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 rollout of smart financing possibilities.

Added Value

The added value of RENOINVEST is that the consortium provides specific technical knowledge by involving key actors representing legislative advisory organisations, research institutes, large engineering companies, SMEs, and financial experts in three Central European countries fostering sustainable investments.