Proposal identification
number (to be inserted by the
Commission)
Call for proposals 2005
Call Identifier: IEEA 2005
Application Form for
Type 1 Actions
- COOPENER -
Part II
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Full title of the proposed action: |
Sustainable Urban Renewal: Energy Efficient Building
for Africa |
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Action acronym: |
SURE-AFRICA |
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Co-ordinator: (Organisation, Address) |
Prof. Doutor Manuel Correia Guedes IDMEC-IST Av. Rovisco
Pais 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal |
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Countries
addressed by proposed action: |
Portugal, United Kingdom, Sweden, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola. |
Part II: Detailed Description
of the Action
Table
of Contents Page
1..... Summary (max. 3000
characters)
2..... Objectives of the
Action (Award criterion 1)
3..... Expected Results and
Potential Impacts (Award criteria 1 and 3)
5..... Work Programme (Award
criteria 2 and 4)
6.3 List of Deliverables and Schedule
7..... Description of each
organisation (Selection criteria and award criterion 5)
8.1 Description of the organisations (max. ½ page per
organisation)
8.2 List of most relevant projects (max. 1 page per
organisation)
8.4 Declaration by the applicant
Please read me first:
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For each section, proposers should follow the
instructions given for Part II in the separate Guide for Proposers.
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The proposal short name (Acronym) should be
indicated in the header of every page of Part II and of all annexes.
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Pages should be clearly numbered.
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Please use a large font (at least 11).
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It is essential to reply to all of the questions. It is not sufficient
to simply refer to documents which may be enclosed.
- The information given must be sufficiently
detailed to enable the proposal to be evaluated on the basis of what has
been written.
1. Summary (max. 3000
characters)
The project aims at strengthening knowledge and its
application in practice, contributing to a sustainable development through the
vital area of energy efficiency in buildings and cities. and, ultimately, to
reduce poverty. The situation found in the participant countries is representative
of many other countries in Africa, with developing economies often scarred by
long-term armed conflicts. Building and urban renewal have an urgency that
requires a different approach to the incorporation of renewable technologies
from that in Europe. This is due to the scarcity of resources, the pressing
demand for social housing and refurbished or new public buildings such as
schools and hospitals, and the difficulties of implementing building and town
planning regulations (often deficient or even non-existant).
It is important to consider energy conservation
through passive building design as a proven equivalent to renewable energy
power generation. The project will adapt well-established knowledge in this
area to the economic and climatic context. It will also introduce the concept
of integrated urban energy planning, where, for example, the hot water needs of
a hospital or hotel may be provided by waste heat from a nearby power
generation plant. Emphasis will be on net demand reduction rather than generation;
this approach making less downstream demands for maintenance and replacement,
and being more compatible with traditional life-styles. In non-domestic
buildings, a high priority will be the avoidance of air-conditioning. In the
case of housing, it is important that basic comfort performance criteria are
met, since failure in this respect will prompt the occupants to purchase
package air-conditioners if and when reduced costs and improved finances allow.
The project will also draw from existing areas of
expertise in post conflict reconstruction, trying to resolve inevitable
conflicts between the short term need, and the longer term imperative of
sustainability. It will recognise, that in the area of housing in particular,
there is much self-build, and it is acknowledged that the support materials
must not only be accessible to the design professional but to the layman as
well.
The overall objective is to create a network of practical and scientific
knowledge between African and European Universities, in the field of
energy-efficient building and urban design.
A two-week training course and a one-week workshop will be held in each
of the African countries involved (Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique). Within this
programme different target groups (teachers, professionals, self-builders) will
be addressed at appropriate levels. All groups will be encouraged and equipped
to set up a cascade of training activity.
Academic and professional expertise from Europe (Portugal, UK and Sweden)
will be organised to give the lectures at all training courses and workshops,
and to contribute to documentary material. A website will be set up, in
cooperation with Academic Institutions in Africa, with information about tools,
case study exemplars and teaching material in the field of sustainable,
energy-efficient building and urban design. Best-practice manuals will also be
published as a final outcome of the project. Long term collaborative research
on energy efficient and sustainable construction will be developed during this
3-year project.
2. Objectives of the Action
(Award criterion 1)
The overall objective is to promote energy-efficiency in
building and urban design, in Sub-Saharan African countries, through
Afro-European cooperation between higher education institutions in Africa, UK,
Portugal and Sweden. It aims at working towards a more sustainable development,
and raising environmental and economic awareness, whilst recognising the
economic and climatic context.
The main objectives are:
1.
The creation an
Afro-European Collaborative Network for sustainable urban renewal to promote
the transfer of expertise from architects, engineers and urban designers in the
field of Sustainable Energy Use.
2.
To promote
knowledge exchange and technology transfer, both of passive design strategies
and renewable energy systems. There will be an emphasis on appropriatness,
recognising the scarcity of resources and skills. A special emphasis will be
placed on the design strategies that avoid the need (both immediate and
potential) for air-conditioning and artificial lighting.
3.
To develop an
integrated approach to reduction of energy demand and energy supply and develop
the potential for shared energy schemes that the urban context makes possible.
Urban microclimatic manipulation by vegetation and landscape design will be an
important urban design consideration, since it interacts with energy demand, as
well as carrying social benefits.
4.
Generate
documentary material for teaching. This will be in the form PowerPoint
presentations with extensive explainatory notes, allowing the teacher to edit
or add material of their own. Other forms of teaching support will include
case-study material, and documentation prepared specifically for the other
target groups (see below).
5.
Generate
documentary material for practice. The content of this will be based on the
teaching material but will be presented in the form of leaflets or brochures.
It will also contain essential data (e.g. efficiency figures for plant,
properties of locally obtainable materials) and references to other sources and
regulations where they exist.
6.
Generate material
for self-builders. This information will be simplified from the sources above
and will be delivered in the form of leaflets and posters. However, all methods
of delivery would be available if circumstances allowed.
7.
To disseminate
the information to the target groups. It is anticipated that the main workshops
would address the academics and qualified professionals. Another level of
dissemination would be needed for small builders and self-builders, these could
be carried out in local community centres and involve practical demonstrations.
In general these activities would be conducted by trainees from the main
workshops.
8.
To set up a
website where selected material drawn from 3,4 and 5 (above) would be made
available as PDFs. The website would also provide information on the
forthcoming workshops and the general progress of the project.
9.
To develop a Best
Practice Guide. This will draw from the material developed in 5,6 and 7, and be
primarily aimed at practitioners, but will clearly be useful to teachers as
well. The intention is to produce a core guide with the common technical
material, and to issue an appendix tailored to the participants countries. It
is not certain yet whether separate guides for housing and non-domestic
buildings will be produced. It is hoped that material from the Best Practice
Guide could act as a precursor to Regulations.
10.
Build up and
maintain links between African and European Universities, extendable to a wider
range of building professional societies, government decision-making bodies and
construction industries.
11.
To explore the
possibilities of developing links through students from the African participant
countries carrying out postgraduate study and research in the Universities of
the European Participants.
12.
Practical
understanding and methodology to guarantee use of best practise of energy
solutions in the process of land development in community areas as well in
sporadic constructions.
3. Expected Results and
Potential Impacts (Award criteria 1 and 3)
The results expected to be achieved with this project
will be:
- Development
of a website as a central resource for information and communication
- Delivery
of training courses and workshops
- Production
of publications: Best Practice Manuals (one for each African country
involved), communications in international and national conferences and
seminars, publications in relevant magazines and books. Free copies of the
publications will be distributed to academic and state institutions
involved in the project.
- Development
of long term Afro-European collaboration in joint academic and
institutional projects.
(a) Direct outcomes that you want to achieve by the end of the
duration of the action
1.
To deliver
workshop/training sessions to between 50 and 100 key actors in the academic and
professional fields.
2.
To enable the
academics attendees to incorporate material relating to sustainable urban
regeneration into the curriculum of courses in architecture, engineering and urban
design.
3.
To enable the
professional attendees to incorporate the principles of sustainability into
live projects.
4.
To increase the
body of literature on sustainable urban regeneration in the particular context
of Africa, available and appropriate to the target audiences.
5.
To produce the
Best Practice Manual(s) and distribute this free via academic and professional
institutions
(b) Potential impacts of the action – in case of a broader scale
of implementation as well as in the longer run after the end of your project/contract
1.
It will develop a lasting human resource of
expertise in sustainable urban renewal in both the academic and professional
sector.
2.
It will improve the quality of urban renewal,
not only bringing environmental benefit by reducing carbon emissions at a
global scale, but also creating a better quality environment at a local scale
thus benefiting the local inhabitants. This will be particularly the case in
housing where inappropriate design can cause negative impacts on health and
well-being.
3.
It will bring long term economic benefit in that
funding authorities will receive better value for money by applying passive
design principles and appropriate renewable energy applications. The
alternative of applying conventional western technologies often involves very
large capital loans and commitment to future maintenance costs and foreign
products and expertise.
4.
It will also bring long term economic benefit to
individuals particularly in the case of housing An energy efficient house will
reduce the households costs and dependence on electricity supply, the future of
which is becoming increasingly uncertain. Packaged air’conditoners are fast
becoming universally available, and occupants of badly designed houses that
fail to provide comfortable conditions, may be tempted to invest capital and
commit to continuing running cost.
5.
Due to both (3 ) and (4) above, this project
will make a significant contribution to the alleviation of poverty. The
uncertainty of the effects of global warming and the insecurity of future
conventional energy supply, makes this increasingly significant.
6.
The documentation generated by the project – in
particular the Best Practice Guide, could form the basis for Codes of Practice
and Regulation. The activity, through the publicity from conferences, and by
direct lobbying, will interest policy makers and politicians.
4. Target Groups and Key Actors
(Award criteria 1 and 5)
The target groups and key actors to be involved, can be
divided by the ones at the local level, as:
- Government
Agencies;
- Municipalities;
- Companies
and Industries related to the building business, been in this field a
various set of nature in the actions field:
- Engineering
and Design;
- Erection;
and
- Material
providers
- Research
centers and Universities (as key player in the long lasting effect – uses
and disseminators of the reference material);
- Local
Associations of Engineering, Urban Planners and Architectures;
In summary, the key actors
that are to be involved are in the fields of Housing Design and Urban development,
been them policy makers, enterprises managers, politicians, NGO, CBO, energy
companies, financial institutions, research institutions, industrial end users,
rural end users and finally equipment and services providers.
5. Contribution to
Energy/Development Related Policies as well as other EU policies and Community
Added Value (Award criteria 1 and 3)
This present project is close related to the millennium Development goals
as defined in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in South
Africa in 2002. In many of the main working lines defined by the goals, the
building is one of the key parameters that has the potential to redefine the
human relations with its environment, been not only in the erection phase, but
yet in the relation of its industries of materials and the impact in the
environment, up to the correct design and incorporation of suitable technology
to reduce the energy demands and environmental impacts of housing at local and
even regional level.
In that sense is
interesting to have a look on some of the Millennium Goals and its relation to
the Building:
1. Eradicate extreme
Poverty and hunger – It is clear that find a
suitable and environmentally friendly way to better supply housing and a more
sustainable urban area is an action that directly target this goal.
2. Achieve universe
primary education – In this sense, a better and
more sustainable urban building can play a major role in the redefining the
relation between Men and its environment, and so when addressing the urban renewal,
it is also an action that support the redesign the relation between the human
and its surroundings, in a seek for the building of a body of knowledge that
would encompass a more sustainable way to live.
3. Promote gender
equality and empowerment women – In this sense, better Urban
design, not only can promote the insertion of women, by providing place for
them the participate on the social life of their communities, but also when is
provide a more less energy intense building, less efforts are spend in the seek
of the household activities, and thus saving time for other productive
activities as well as from educational and social participation.
4. Reduce child
mortality - Diseases caused by unboiled water, and respiratory illness caused by the
effects of indoor air pollution from traditional fuels and stoves, directly
contribute to infant and child disease and mortality, and so a better design of
households can have a direct impact on this goal.
5. Improve maternal
health - Women are disproportionately affected by indoor air pollution and water –
and food-bore illness. Lack of electricity in health clinics, lack of
illumination for nigh time, some issues that can be incorporated in the design
of a more sustainable housing.
6. Combat HIV/AIDS
malaria, and other diseases – When cities and communities are well design and
does count with a urbanization plan, already incorporating the characteristics
and demand imposed by the environment, some threats to the so called tropical
disease are addressed, as better lighting, no environment for the proliferation
of insects disease transmitters, etc.
7. Ensure
environmental sustainability – It is in the goal
that the project does have the biggest potential impact, not only by offering a
more sustainable and environmentally fried way to live in the target regions,
but also by addressing a new form to provide the necessary materials and
incorporating new production lines within the material and erection sector in
the target countries. Energy consumption, not only after the build is erected,
but also in the fabrication of the materials, are key factors in building a
more sustainable relation with the environment, and a better urban design can
reduce also the after erection energy demands, having potential impacts on
reducing the many adverse effects on the local, regional and global environment
including indoor, local and regional air pollution, local particulates, land
degradation, acidification of land and water, and climate change. Cleaner and
more sustainable material production, design and erection techniques are needed
to address all of these effects and to contribute to environmental
sustainability.
8. Develop a global
partnership for Development - The World Summit for Sustainable Development
called for partnerships between public entities, development agencies, civil
society and the private sector to support sustainable development, including
the delivery of affordable, reliable and environmentally sustainable energy
services.
The
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide the context for much of the donor
activity in Africa. They address the
human needs that must be fulfilled in order to combat poverty – income,
nutrition, health, education, equality and environment - and provide a
framework and targets for measuring progress towards poverty reduction. Whilst energy is not an MDG per se, sustainable energy access and
use are a necessary condition for achieving the MDGs, and many donors now
realize that support for energy is crucial in order to reduce world poverty and
support economic development. Further,
if this is to be achieved in a sustainable way, renewable energy and energy
efficiency must also be priorities.
EUROPEAN UNION
EU Energy
Initiative for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
The
European Union officially launched the EU Energy Initiative which heralds a
fundamental shift in EU development policy to put energy front and centre of
the EU's development agenda. As part of the EU Energy Initiative, the EU has
officially launched its Energy Facility for the ACP, a €220 million facility
over the next five years, to coincide with its new efforts in energy in the ACP
countries, with a major focus on Africa.
COOPENER
Most
recently, funding in the area of energy and poverty in Africa has been
distributed through the COOPENER section of the Intelligent Energy for Europe
programme, which falls within the Directorate for Energy and Transport (DG
TREN). COOPENER prioritises activities
which are focused on the provision of energy services for poverty alleviation
and sustainable development of poor people in developing countries. Annex I of
this newsletter summarises the COOPENER projects which are currently active in
the SAHEL region and within which there are clear opportunities to share
knowledge, experience and findings.
WORLD BANK
The World
Bank’s strategy for supporting development is based on:
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Helping the poor directly by facilitating access to modern energy
services, reducing the cost and improving the quality of energy supplied to low
income households, and supporting the provision of energy needed for social
services and income generating activities. Renewable energy resources can help
provide modern energy services to households, enterprises, and social
facilities, such as health, education, water, and telecommunications. Energy efficiency can help reduce the cost
and the time involved in obtaining energy services.
·
Promoting good governance and private
sector development through
the creation of objective, transparent, and non-discriminatory regulatory
mechanisms; introducing and expanding competition; and strengthening the
capacity to finance businesses. This allows investors and entrepreneurs in
renewable energy and energy efficiency to increase their investments and make
such supplies more available.
·
Protecting the environment includes removing market and regulatory
barriers to renewable energy technologies, promoting fuel-switching,
strengthening environmental management capacity in many of the economy sectors,
and facilitating access to the carbon market by client countries. Renewable
energy resources and energy efficiency directly address environmental concerns
at the local, regional, and global levels.
Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) - This was established at the 2002 World
Summit on Sustainable Development by the World Bank Group, together with the
UNDP and other partners. It seeks to
expand modern energy services to underserved communities and households by
building a global network of organizations and groups. GVEP grew out of two
international Village Power conferences at the World Bank Group in 1998 and
2000, and is serving a growing knowledge management need.
Department
for International Development (DFID), UK – In general, DFID’s funding priorities are focused
on the Millennium Development Goals, with no funding stream aimed specifically
at energy at present. For priority
countries, DFID has developed Country Profiles describing the most urgent
priorities at which DFID’s funding is directed in that country. In the Sahel region, these typically cover
issues such as food aid, emergency health care, education and capacity building
in civil society.
6. Work Programme (Award
criteria 2 and 4)
6.1 Overview
At present, the situation found in the African countries
involved in the project is representative of many other countries in Africa,
with developing economies often scarred by long-term armed conflicts. Building
and urban sustainability have an urgency that requires a different approach
from that of Europe, namely in terms of the low living condition offered by the
erected construction, the need for refurbishment and social housing, the
difficulties of implementing building and town planning regulations (often
deficient or even non-existent). Within this frame, the project aims at
strengthening knowledge and its application in practice, contributing to a
sustainable development through the vital area of energy efficiency in
buildings and cities.
The 30 months project will involve the following
actions:
Action 1: Establish the Afro-European
Information Centre. The Centre will be composed of partners and associates, and
establish links with relevant professional and academic networks.
Action 2: Develop the Centre's website as a
central resource for information and communication, including a database of
appropriate tools, case study exemplars and teaching material.
Action 3 Design of the training course modules
and workshops, including identification of the specific needs and constraints
of each region. Preparation of material for distribution (and for the website).
Action 4: Preparation and delivery of training
courses, workshops and conferences (including event organisation,
dissemination, invited speakers, etc).
Action 5: Development of the best-practice
manuals (one for each country).
Action 6: Development of long term
Afro-European collaborative structures including distance learning materials
and joint research projects exploiting the project’s training and knowledge
exchange.
The project Work Programme will be divided into
four phases, as follows:
1. Phase 1 -
Collection and Analysis of Information
2. Phase 2 –
Preparation of the reference material
3. Phase 3 -
Training and Dissemination
4. Phase 4 -
Coordination and Evaluation of the Work
Figure 1 – The Project Phases
Each Phase is divided into specific work packages,
each on focused in specific actions/deliverables, as described bellow in Figure
2.
Figure
2 – The Project Work Packages
The project will be co-ordinated for the technical and administrative
aspects by IDMEC-IST, which assumes the responsibility for the project
management. Progress reports, cost statements and budgetary overviews will be
consolidated by the project co-ordinator. IDMEC-IST will be responsible for
providing the deliverables associated with each phase, for coordinate any
partner interaction within phases, call meetings involving engineers working on
individual phases in the relevant organisation, and review detailed work as
required.
Brief intermediary reports summarising
activities of each partner involved in the planned phase(s) and main results
will be provided regularly to the European Commission (EC). A final report will
be delivered to the EC at the end of the action period (30 months), compiling
the results achieved against the pre-defined objectives.
In order to ensure a real complementary and
comparability of the phases regular meetings will be organised during the
course of the action (every six months) in order to exchange information and
results, to confront the options of the participants, and to agree upon the
results and/or the modification to be executed. All partners will be called to
participate in all the events and in helping in the preparation of the reports.
In order to take those opportunities to produce better partners’ team
work and improving in better well knowing of each other, each regular Meeting
will be held by one of the partners, in its local facilities, as a good
opportunity to strength local partnership and taking opportunity to know better
the field of work that each one works. It is understood that those
opportunities, make an opportunity to introduce the local people involved in
the project in direct contact with the other institutions.
6.2 Work Packages
Please find bellow the list
of work packages involved in the present project proposal:
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Work Package 1 - Management and Coordination
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Work Package 2 – Local Assessment
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Work Package 3 – Framework for action
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Work Package 4 – Production of Reference Material
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Work Package 5 – Training Activities
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Work Package 6 – Communication
and Dissemination
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Work Package 7 - Common
Dissemination Activities
6.2.1 Work Package 1: Management and Coordination
(Award criterion 5)
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N° of work package: 1 |
Name of the work package:
Management and Coordination |
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Duration in months: 30 |
Leader of the work package:
IDMEC - IST |
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Total person-hours of work: 1.310 |
Total costs in EUR: 90.542 |
Description of the work
Overview:
The project management and
coordination aim at ensuring that project objectives are adequately achieved,
on time and within the costs estimated. This means coordinating all work
developed, overseeing the tasks and work packages, ensuring the development and
production of deliverables, and also reporting to the European Commission via
the contracted reports. The management also ensures that adequate levels of
communication are maintained and promotes scientific discussion among partners
and African subcontractors to achieve expected levels of scientific and
technical outputs.
The coordinator will carry
out the day-to-day management of the project, coordination between the project
partners, ensure the circulation of important documents, and promote meetings
and discussions. The coordinator should be informed by work package leaders of
the ongoing status of the work packages whenever requested. The coordinator
will be responsible for communications with the European Commission.
The coordinator will be
responsible for writing up all the reports, with the input of all the work
package leaders. The final report will have broader dissemination and will
circulate among partners prior to dissemination outside the consortium. The
coordinator will ensure the final report results from a consensus among all partners.
This work package will
include the following meetings, to be organised every six months:
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Objectives |
Local |
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Kick-off Meeting |
First Meeting |
Lisbon |
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1st Meeting |
Technical Meeting |
UK |
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2nd Meeting |
Technical Meeting |
Cape Verde |
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3rd Meeting |
Technical Meeting |
Sweden |
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4th Meeting |
Technical Meeting |
Angola |
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5th Meeting |
Final Meeting |
Mozambique |
A Representative of the
European Commission will be invited to participate in the 2nd and 4th Technical
Meetings, thus enabling them to also participate in the filed level Dialogs and
events, to be organised at the same period.
Tasks:
1. Kick off meeting and
coordination of the subsequent Technical meetings
2. Report of the project
progress report.
3. Communication between
partners of the Research Consortium.
4. Communication with the
European Commission
5. Management of the project
activities
6. Consolidation and issue of
the cost reports
Outcome of this work package:
·
Efficient implementation of project activities and achievement of project
objectives
·
Adequate levels of communication and promotion of scientific discussion
among parties involved in the project
·
Production of project progress and final reports
·
Organization of technical meetings
Deliverable(s) of this work package:
·
D1a: First Progress Report
·
D1b: Second Progress report
·
D1c: Third Progress Report
·
D1d: Fourth Progress Report
·
D1e: Final Report
Role and contribution (tasks) of each partner in this work package:
IDMEC-IST – Project
coordination, organisation of technical meetings, and reporting
UCAM – Support to project
coordination and organisation of technical meeting in UK
UL – Support to project
coordination and organisation of technical meeting in Sweden
Major other specific costs (tasks and foreseen
amount):
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Item |
Unit Value |
Quantity |
Total |
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Meeting costs |
450 |
6 |
2.700 |
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|
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Total |
2.700 |
Major subcontracts (tasks and foreseen amount, and name of organisation
where available):
UEM-FAPF – Support to project
coordination and organisation in Angola.
UNAN – Support to project
coordination and organisation of technical meeting in Mozambique
M-EIA – Support to project
coordination and organisation of technical meeting in Cape Verde.
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6.2.2 Work Package 2: Local
Assessment
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N° of work package: 2 |
Name of the work package:
Local Assessment |
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Duration in months: 08 |
Leader of the work package:
LU |
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Total person-hours of work: 2.134 |
Total costs in EUR: 50.691 |
Description of the work
Overview:
In order
to design, implement and evaluate a coherent set of actions target into the
project objectives – Sustainable Urban Renewal: Energy Efficient Building for
Africa – it is necessary to first understand the present situation and all the
relevant policy and regulations applicable to the issue, what would also
include a local market assessment as well the analysis of the common practice
that are now been developed in each of the target countries. . It will also
include a review of the practise of the land development process and the real
impact of current policies and regulations in specific land developments.
In this
sense, this Work Package 2, will be focused in the collection of related
documentation and assessment of the local framework where the project is to
have its major impacts, the areas of Energy practices, building procedures and
techniques and even more specifically the Urban Design for the three target
countries: Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. This local framework includes the
current practise in the process of land development, within the land allocation
and building permit schemes. The role of development drafts for the implementation
of the proposed techniques is also reviewed.
To
implement this WP, several sources of documentation will be used: the work of
the national institutions dealing with sustainable energy issues building and
urban design, national development plans and strategies (i.e. CILSS and
National documentation centres, World Bank documents, International Energy
Agency publications, United Nations Organisations publications, such as UNDP,
UNEP, FAO, WMO, as well as internet resources, among other). The documents
produced by the National Committees for Sustainable Development and CILSS
National Focal Points in each target country will be also used.
Tasks:
·
1. Survey and inventory of the major stakeholders
and key actors with a significant intervention on Sustainable Energy Building
and Urban Design for all the Target countries.
·
2. Survey and inventory of the local regulation
and national policy applied to the field of Energy Building and Urban Design
for all the Target countries, and how these are understood and applied in
specific land developments.
·
3. Survey and inventory of the main common
practices and marked scenarios in the field Energy Building and Urban Design
for all the Target countries.
Outcome of this work package:
This work
package is expected to collect the required information to identify and
classify the different elements related to Sustainable Energy Building and
Urban Design in each country. Based on
this gathering of information, would be possible to have a better understanding
of the proposal target areas and currend situation, as a base for the next
project phases.
Deliverable(s) of this work package:
·
D2: Inventory of stakeholder and key actors in
each target country – What would include main institutions, agencies,
municipalities, companies, research centers, universities, associations,
industries. Those actors would be classified by: policy makers, enterprises
managers, politicians, NGO, CBO, energy companies, financial institutions,
research institutions, industrial end users, rural end users and finally
equipment and services providers.
·
D3: Report on the main common practices and market
behavior in each target country. What would include the identification of most
recent project that would exemplify the most present procedures at filed level
in the areas of
Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design. This Deliverable would also
include an assessment of the recent changes and innovations that took place at
the local level in the target countries.
·
D4: Report on the main policy and regulation
related to the field of Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design for each target country. As
the project has to understand the main drivers, and for that the applicable
regulations are key parameters for a long lasting effect of the project
activities, for what they are to be assessed in the draw of a comprehensive
analysis of the situation.
Role and contribution (tasks) of each partner in
this work package:
IDMEC-IST
– Coordination of the work package and stakeholder and key actors
identification and classification
UCAM - Report
on the main common practices and market behavior in each target country
UL - Report
on the main policy and regulation related on the field of Sustainable Energy Building
and Urban Design and how this is implemented in the land development process.
The role of financial frameworks (including mortgage systems) and schemes for
joint facilities is also part of the UL participation.
Major other specific costs
(tasks and foreseen amount):
Major subcontracts (tasks and foreseen amount, and
name of organisation where available):
UEM-FAPF –
Collection of pertinent regional, national and local level information and
data.
UNAN –
Collection of pertinent regional, national and local level information and
data.
M-EIA –
Collection of pertinent regional, national and local level information and
data.
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6.2.2 Work Package 3: Framework for action
|
N° of work package: 3 |
Name of the work package:
Framework for Action |
|
Duration in months: 09 |
Leader of the work package:
UCAM |
|
Total person-hours of work: 968 |
Total costs in EUR: 46.634 |
Description of the work
Overview:
Once the
situation at local level in each country is profiled start the most critical
Phase of the project where the assessment of the most interesting, and
applicable, practices in the field of Sustainable Energy Building and Urban
Design would be. The analyses will also include how the land development
process is facing the demands of regulations and policies. The EU requirement
of energy declaration in land information systems will be analysed in the
African context.
In this
sense, this WP will analyse the current practices, regulations, policies,
common practices and recent trends in the local markets for each target
country, making an assessment of the main present scenario as well as the
current trends, n the light of the recent history of each target countries to
establish the working basis for the next project activities.
The WP
will analyse all documents produced in the previous WP for each of the
beneficiary countries that are related. It will be identified and listed the
barriers to transfer new and groundbreaking knowledge as well and procedures
and technical solutions to the target countries. The most adequate tools to
address these issues will be indicated. Although the analysis will be done
mainly at a national level for each target country, it will be made an effort
to present the same analysis at global level, giving so a valuable contribution
for policy making towards a future possibility of common policy and regulations
in the integration of the markets and systems.
Tasks:
1. Establishment of a Afro-European Excellence dialogue, so
the main key stakeholders are to get to a common sense on the main lines and
priorities to be developed at local level to enhance the best sustainable
practices to be implemented in the near future, medium term, and even long term
(as the change in the policy and regulation). This will be done in the base of
a dialogue, exchange of knowledge and ideas, within the realization of round
tables with the local stakeholders and the project partners. This task is to be
focused in establishing links with relevant professional, governmental and
academic networks.
2. Assessment of the national policy and regulation. For
each target country, will be performed a in death analysis of the national
policy and regulations related to the Sustainable Energy Building and Urban
Design identified in the previous WP, where the main drivers for the
enhancement of the sustainability are to be identified.
3. Assessment of the national market scenarios in the
field of Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design. For each target country,
this scenario is to be build and are to be identified the main possible
technological and capacity building actions possible to drive the current trend
to the most sustainable situation possible, in line with the national policy
and regulation applicable.
4. Assessment of the common practices that local level. As
the main drive of the changes are actually to be done at on site actions, is to
be assessed the main common practice at field level, and where and how more
sustainable methods of delivering the same goods and ser ices and be
implemented, as well as the draw of a local action plan to make possible the
change on the previously identified procedures. The local action plan will
include the specific process in which land developments and sporadic housing
investments are implemented
Outcome of this work package:
An
assessment of potential driving forces in each of the three main action levels
(or arenas if one prefer), the change the present situation to more sustainable
and desirable targets for each of the target countries. This would be done in
separate documents divided into areas addressing the main questions and issues
related to Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design
As part of
the WP, it is expect to have a better understanding not only of the directions
to where the present scenarios are to be modified, but also a list of the most
significant barriers associated with these proposed actions lines and to
present solutions and/or strategies to overcome those barriers
Deliverable(s) of this work package:
·
D5. Assessment of the national policy and regulation, and their impact on
local land developments and sporadic building works. What would include the
suggestion of action lines to change the present situation for each target
country.
·
D6. Assessment of the national market scenarios. In this deliverable the
available techniques, productions industries, available materials and
equipments at local level in each target country, where is to be indicated the
most interesting changes, technology transfer and scientific developments to be
implemented at local level to imprint a more sustainable path in the field of
Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design. . It will also include the
economic conditions for implementation of the techniques at national level, e
g, with economic incentives with mortgage systems based on the property as
legal-economic unit.
·
D7. Assessment of the common practices that local level. This deliverable
would indicate for each target country, not only the trends of the most used
techniques (partially done in the last WP), but would indicate what would be
the most desirable changes and incorporation in terms of new techniques, new
procedures to be incorporated at local level to have a more sustainable drove
common practice. The possible techniques to be identified must also be evaluated
in the light of appropriated technology concept, where the availability and the
power of implementing and develop the specific knowledge is build at local
level. This Deliverable would also indicate possible methodologies and
strategies to overcome the main identified barriers including legal and
economic conditions for implementation of the new techniques.
Role and contribution (tasks) of each partner in
this work package:
IDMEC-IST
– Support the WP coordinator in the identification and development of the
possible new technicques to be incorporated at the local level. Assess the
potential impacts and outcomes (benefits at local and national level), n the
introduction of such technologies
UCAM – WP
Coordination as well and analysis on the consistency on the possible models,
procedures an techniques to be incorporate at the local level procedures and
practices.
UL -
Support the project coordination in identification and design of a sustainable
model for implementation of the new techniques, with emphasis on the legal and
economic demands in land developments and building phase
Major other specific costs
(tasks and foreseen amount):
Major subcontracts (tasks and foreseen amount, and
name of organisation where available):
UEM-FAPF -
Support to WP coordination in specific parts of the analysis
UNAN -
Support to WP coordination in specific parts of the analysis
M-EIA -
Support to WP coordination in specific parts of the analysis
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6.2.2 Work Package 4: Production
of Reference Material
|
N° of work package: 4 |
Name of the work package:
Production of Reference material |
|
Duration in months: 22 |
Leader of the work package:
IDMEC-IST |
|
Total person-hours of work: 1.127 |
Total costs in EUR: 90.346 |
Description of the work
Overview:
If a long
lasting effect is to be achieved at local level, it is necessary to empower the
specific key actors and stakeholders with the necessary tools to develop their
local issues and potentialities in the light of the most sustainable path in
the field of Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design.
For this
is necessary to support the local players with structured material capable to
provide them the necessary knowledge and tolls so they can become the driving
forces into a more desirable future. This material would be done in a common
effort of all the partners of the research consortium, not only to be a
presentation of the possible technical solutions, but yet a guide – or a road
map if one fells like – in the build of a more sustainable environment in the
field of Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design.
For that
purpose, it is necessary to secure that the produced material not only achieve
the proposed goals, but that is produced in a way that the local payers are
capable to understand and assimilate the content presented. This is a key
aspect if the changes are to be developed at various levels of the society, it
is necessary to produce training and reference material, not only to the final
users, but actually to build a groups of trainers that would act as multipliers
at local level, capable to extend the good practice dissemination even when the
project is finished.
Tasks:
1. Preparation and delivery of reference and training
material, focused in the three main specific target groups, specialized
professionals (engineers, policy makers, decision makers, mayors, University
and Technical Centres teachers), Productive sector (material providers, brick
makers, building related industries) and final workers (where the material is
to be design to be focused in the change of the common practice, and must be
replicable at very low cost – i.e. replicable black and white brochures).
2. Evaluation by the research consortium on the produced
material and re-design if necessary of the material.
3.
Preparation and structuring of training course modules and workshops, including
identification of the specific needs and constraints of each region/target
country.
Outcome of this work package:
Preparation and delivery of reference and training
material, also to support local level courses, workshops and conferences.
Design of the training course modules and workshops,
design in accordance to the specific needs and constraints of each region.
Deliverable(s) of this work package:
·
D8a. Reference and training material. Suitable for the
understanding of each of the key target groups, and also adaptable to each of
the local priorities and needs – Focus Cape Verde.
·
D8b. Reference and training material. Suitable for the
understanding of each of the key target groups, and also adaptable to each of
the local priorities and needs – Focus Angola.
·
D8c. Reference and training material. Suitable for the
understanding of each of the key target groups, and also adaptable to each of
the local priorities and needs – Focus Mozambique.
·
D9. Development of the best-practice manuals (one for each country).
Role and contribution (tasks) of each partner in
this work package:
IDMEC-IST
– WP coordination as well as compilation of the material, editing, printing and
distribution of the reference and training material.
UCAM -
Support to project coordination in specific parts of the reference and training
material, and best-practice manuals.
UL –
Support to project coordination in specific parts of the reference and training
material, and best-practice manuals, specialised on the land development and
building permission process, and on the economic and legal conditions
Major other specific costs
(tasks and foreseen amount):
|
Item |
Unit Value |
Quantity |
Total |
|
Manual |
25 |
1.000 |
25.000 |
|
Training material |
|
|
10.000 |
|
Other publications |
|
|
15.000 |
|
|
|
Total |
50.000 |
Major subcontracts (tasks and foreseen amount, and
name of organisation where available):
UEM-FAPF -
Support to WP coordination in local level actions (distribution and
dissemination of the material), chec for material adequacy to the local
framework (accessible format, language, etc).
UNAN -
Support to WP coordination in local level actions (distribution and
dissemination of the material), chec for material adequacy to the local
framework (accessible format, language, etc).
M-EIA -
Support to WP coordination in local level actions (distribution and
dissemination of the material), chec for material adequacy to the local
framework (accessible format, language, etc).
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6.2.2 Work Package 5: Training
Activities
|
N° of work package: 5 |
Name of the work package:
Training Activities |
|
Duration in months: 06
–from 11 to 30 |
Leader of the work package:
UCAM |
|
Total person-hours of work: 3.786 |
Total costs in EUR: 151.439 |
Description of the work
Overview:
Once the
material is prepared, it is necessary to secure that is, first usable by the
local key personnel, in line with the local needs, and most of all, possible to
be a positive force in the change of the current paths of action towards a more
sustainable status, and even more, that the material and the first leave of
multipliers are ready and in place to extend the effect of the present project
beyond the time frame of this action.
To
accomplish this, is necessary to test the material, and this would be done
based on local level training workshops and courses, also in line with the
objective to strength the links between the Europe and African centres of
Excellence, paving the road for future cooperation and in death research in the
fields of Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design.
Tasks:
1. Local Training Workshop and Conference activities. These
activities at local level are to be target to the different key actors, as
described: specialized professionals (engineers, policy makers, mayors, local
decision makers, University and Technical Centres teachers), Productive sector
(material providers, brick makers, building related industries) and final
workers, where each one would be address in a consistent and suitable form
(media and language).
2. Evaluation of the produced material and suggestion of
changes and or adaptation if necessary.
3. Establishment of the bases for a virtual long term
Afro-European collaborative structure. This effort would include the joint
elaboration and use of distance learning materials and support of joint
research projects, i.e. through PhD student supervisions via internet and short
term visits in EU universities and research laboratories.
Outcome of this work package:
Training
activities at the various levels target in the project.
Evaluation
of the produced material in the previous WP.
Enhancement
of the relations between Europe and African institutions in the field of
Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design.
Deliverable(s) of this work package:
·
D10. Local Training Workshop and Conference
activities. Applied to the several different key target groups as well as in
line with the local needs and specificities.
·
D11. Evaluation of the produced material. This
analysis is to produce a consistent and would lead to suggestion of changes and
or adaptation if necessary. This evaluation is to be done at the end of the
training action at field level as well as by the steering committee composed by
the research consortium representative.
Role and contribution (tasks) of each partner in
this work package:
IDMEC-IST
-
UCAM –
Coordinate the WP, as well as consolidate the training material securing that
it does fulfil the local expectations, identified in the previous WP’s
UL –
Support to project coordination in specific parts of the deliveries, focussed
on the key groups on land development and building process
Major other specific costs
(tasks and foreseen amount):
|
Item |
Unit Value |
Quantity |
Total |
|
Rent of rooms |
600 |
3 |
1.800 |
|
Organization Staff |
750 |
3 |
2.250 |
|
Travel & Allow. |
18 |
3.845 |
69.210 |
|
|
|
Total |
73.260 |
Major subcontracts (tasks and foreseen amount, and
name of organisation where available):
UEM-FAPF -
Support to WP coordination in local level actions (organizing the seminars and
Workshops, assist the dissemination of the events and mobilization of the key
actors).
UNAN -
Support to WP coordination in local level actions (organizing the seminars and
Workshops, assist the dissemination of the events and mobilization of the key
actors).
M-EIA -
Support to WP coordination in local level actions (organizing the seminars and
Workshops, assist the dissemination of the events and mobilization of the key
actors).
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6.2.2 Work Package 6: Communication and
Dissemination
|
N° of work package: 6 |
Name of the work package:
Communication and Dissemination |
|
Duration in months: 10 –
from 09 to 30 |
Leader of the work package:
IDMEC-IST |
|
Total person-hours of work: 887 |
Total costs in EUR: 52.164 |
Description of the work
Overview:
A key
aspect of any activity is its visibility and to secure the access to its
reference material, for what this is a key WP in the successful implementation
of this project. It is to be kept in mind that one of the key elements is to
disseminate the knowledge produced in the framework of the research consortium,
as well as the produced material within the target groups.
Fro this
reason it is necessary to have more then one strategy, as the present project
does have more then one target groups, and per se that presents some specific
characteristics that have to be addressed.
It is
necessary to produce material readable at local level, easy to be spread beyond
the time frame of the project, for what some key strategies and specific action
lines are to be taken:
- To be present at scientific and academic
seminars and congress – targeting the academia and research community;
- To produce the reference best-practice
manuals (one for each country) target to the more specialised set of
professionals (i.e. engineers, urban planers and policy makers);
- Secure that a set of easy to replicate
material is made available at local level to support the action of the
trained multipliers. In this sense it is necessary to secure the proper
language (not only local, but also in the suitable form), and for example,
possible to be reproduced in a low cost available technology by local
stakeholders like NGO, Training Centres (i.e. Black and White Xerox copied
brochures).
- Training material, suitable to the
understood by the key target groups, and also adaptable to each of the
local priorities and needs.
- Secure that the
project activities be recorded at the local media vehicles, specially at
the occasion of the filed level actions.
Tasks:
1. Develop the project's website as a central resource for
information and communication, including a database of appropriate tools, case study
exemplars and teaching material
2. Send relevant material to be presented in high level
Academic/Policy Conferences and Seminars.
3. Make sure that relevant key players and stakeholders
have access and a solid material to disseminate and multiply the results of the
project activities.
Outcome of this work package:
Organize
and make available the produced material to each specific target group.
Deliverable(s) of this work package:
·
D12. Website for the project. Where all relevant
information is to be made available at the appropriated language and format.
·
D13. Disseminations actions at local level. For
this is necessary to make the projects activities available for the local
media, been newspaper, radio, etc.
Role and contribution (tasks) of each partner in
this work package:
IDMEC-IST
– WP coordination and production of the dissemination material.
UCAM –
Support to project coordination
UL –
Support to project coordination
Major other specific costs
(tasks and foreseen amount):
|
Item |
Unit Value |
Quantity |
Total |
|
Congress Fee |
600 |
6 |
3.600 |
|
Website Design |
1.000 |
1 |
1.000 |
|
Web hosting |
150 |
2 |
300 |
|
Travel & Allow. |
13.515 |
1 |
13.515 |
|
|
|
Total |
18.415 |
Major subcontracts (tasks and foreseen amount, and
name of organisation where available):
UEM-FAPF –
Support to project coordination
UNAN –
Support to project coordination
M-EIA –
Support to project coordination
6.2.z Work Package 7: Common Dissemination
Activities
|
N° of work package: 7 |
Name of the work package:
Common dissemination activities |
|
Duration in months: 30 |
Leader of the work package:
IDMEC-IST |
|
Total person-hours of work:
286 |
Total costs in EUR: 21.873 |
Description of work
The work package covers resources to contribute, upon request by the
European Commission (DG TREN, IEEA), to common dissemination activities shared
by the IEE projects in order to increase synergies amongst the projects and
visibility of the project results
·
Task 1: Contribution to the development of online
information systems under IEE management (e.g. project fact sheets, reports,
slides, electronic deliverables, images) in the quality and form specified
·
Task 2: Participation and/or contribution, to
information and dissemination events (contractors’ workshops, conferences,
briefing days, exhibitions, etc.) related to Intelligent Energy – Europe or
other relevant EU programmers
·
Task 3: Contribution to the preparation of common
presentation material related to IEE actions, like the “Intelligent Energy
News” newsletter and other printable or audiovisual media developed by the
European Commission and its contractor’s
Outcome of this work
package:
·
Delivering of contributions to the online
information systems and web-sites
·
Participation in information and dissemination
events, such as contractor’s workshops, conferences
·
Delivery of common presentation material and media
tools
Deliverable(s) of this work
package:
·
D14. Common Dissemination Activities. Those
actions are focused in attending the EC requests, been in nature:
o
Inputs to the European Commission’s online
information systems and web-site, (e.g. project fact sheets, reports, slides,
electronic deliverables, images and regular up-dates thereof) in the quality
and form specified
o
Project presentations and background material
presented at information and dissemination events including feedback analysis
thereof
o
Inputs to common presentation material related to IEE actions, such as
articles for newsletters, posters, interviews, visuals
Role and contribution
(tasks) of each partner in this work package:
IDMEC-IST
– Proceed with the Project dissemination activities as indicated by the EC.
UCAM –
Support to project coordination
UL –
Support to project coordination
Other specific costs (tasks
and foreseen amount):
|
Item |
Unit Value |
Quantity |
Total |
|
Presentation mat. |
150 |
6 |
900 |
|
Travel & Allow. |
13.973 |
1 |
13.973 |
|
|
|
Total |
14.873 |
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6.3 List of Deliverables and
Schedule
The major results of the
SED-AFRICA project will be presented through a set of 15 Deliverables, here
bellow summarized:
D1a: First Progress Report
D1b: Second Progress report
D1c: Third Progress Report
D1d: Fourth Progress Report
D1e: Final Report
D2: Inventory of stakeholder
and key actors in each target country
D3: Report on the main common
practices and market behaviour in each target country.
D4: Report on the main policy
and regulation for each target country.
D5. Assessment of the
national policy and regulation.
D6. Assessment of the
national market scenarios.
D7. Assessment of the common
practices that local level.
D8a. Reference and training
material – Focus Cape Verde.
D8b. Reference and training
material – Focus Angola.
D8c. Reference and training
material – Focus Mozambique.
D9. Development of the
best-practice manuals.
D10. Local Training Workshop
and Conference activities.
D11. Evaluation of the
produced material.
D12. Website for the project.
D13. Disseminations actions
at local level.
D14. Common Dissemination
Activities.
In parallel, a communication network will be built to
enable an open debate on the main problems identified in the area for the
promotion and support of activities focused in the improvement of the
endogenous capacity to address these problems in the Target Region.
When pursuing the project main goal, the following co-benefits
will be obtained:
·
Capacity building of the African partners
educational Centres.
·
Establishment of a communication platform, linking
the different key players.
·
Enhancing awareness among the issues of
Sustainable Energy Building and Urban Design, at local and regional levels.