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Martigny ENGAGEs for more energy independence!

Laura Guérin — 2014-10-14T13:55:55Z

The District of Martigny in Switzerland aims to highlight their public buildings as good examples of energy efficiency. To achieve this target, they use the Display® Campaign to evaluate the energy performance of these buildings and then display them to lead by example.
Citizens are also invited to show their energy-related involvement on ENGAGE posters and act in the fields of mobility, heating, building renovation.
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ENGAGE cities Mouscron and Frasnes-lez-Anvaing win Belgian RES Champions League

Laura Guérin — 2014-02-14T08:32:00Z

On the 11th of February, the winners of the 2013-2014 Belgian RES Champions League were revealed. The ENGAGE cities Mouscron and Frasnes-lez-Anvaing are winners in 2 of the 3 categories of the competition (> 25,000 inhabitants and between 8,000 et 25,000 inhabitants).
32 cities from Wallonia took part in the 2013-2014 RES Champions League organised by APERe, the Belgian Association for Renewable Energies. Mouscron has been rewarded for its ambitious Sustainable Energy Action Plan and (...)

Best ENGAGE posters displayed on a bus in Aachen

Laura Guérin — 2014-02-13T08:21:48Z

The city of Aachen (Germany), which is committed to lower CO2 emissions by 40% by 2020, combined the ENGAGE campaign with a competition of the most popular posters, via votes on the online poster gallery.
Winning posters have been published as "posters of the month" on the local campaign website ACtiv fürs Klima. The Aachen transport company supports ENGAGE and provides the bus.
At the beginning of ENGAGE in Aachen, the bus showed people and statements advertising the campaign. Since (...)

Award-winner campaign: "Bielsko-Biała protects the climate"

Laura Guérin — 2014-01-13T16:03:33Z

The European Public Sector Award (EPSA) is a European learning platform for performance improvement of the public sector. Since 2007, the EPSA awards recognise the best and most innovative performers in public administrations across Europe.
In 2013, the municipality of Bielsko-Biała (Poland) received an award in the Supra-local and Local administrative for its local ENGAGE campaign “Bielsko-Biała Protects the Climate”.
Bielsko Biala produced gathered than 300 local commitments for sustainable (...)

ENGAGE inspires new campaigns

Laura Guérin — 2013-11-13T13:26:54Z

“Think global, act local”, those terms have been the leitmotiv of the 11th German Week in the French region of Languedoc-Roussillon, held from the 27th November to the 5th October 2013. The main theme, eco-citizenship guided the event's programme and called for citizen involvement.
The initiative DeutschMobil, with the aim to promote German culture and language at schools, was also part of the event. Inspired by the European ENGAGE campaign, young people designed personal posters with slogans (...)

More than 6,000 ENGAGEments!

Laura Guérin — 2013-09-19T13:52:20Z

The ENGAGE campaign has just reached a new milestone!
More than 6,000 posters of citizens, stakeholders, public servants and elected representatives from 66 local authorities all over Europe are now displayed on the European ENGAGE gallery.
Discover the various and high quality campaigns from the following ENGAGE newcomers: Ouest Provence (FR)
http://www.citiesengage.eu/european... StädteRegion Aachen (DE)
http://www.citiesengage.eu/european... Bloemendaal (NL) (...)

"Good Energy" Festival in Bielsko-Biała

Laura Guérin — 2013-07-18T10:01:05Z

This year's 3rd edition of the “Beskid Good Energy” Festival, dedicated to energy conservation in everyday life, once again attracted thousands of Bielsko-Biała residents.
Local residents as well as visitors had a chance to enjoy a weeklong eco-design exhibition entitled "The Second Life of Things". “We want to show that recycling can be aesthetic and functional, and energy consumption while creating new objects should be minimised." - explained the festival's organisers. The temporary "Share (...)

The gecko is climate ambassador in Ouest Provence

Laura Guérin — 2013-07-15T07:46:13Z

The gecko is the emblem of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) of Ouest Provence (France) whose motto is GECCO2 (Management of Energy, Climate and CO2). This type of lizard is very common in the region but endangered is some other parts of the world due to climate change.
As simple actions matter and create group dynamics, Ouest Provence highlights individual initiatives from citizens, local businesses, shopkeepers and civil servants. During public events throughout the year, (...)

Bistriţa ENGAGE participants reduce their individual carbon footprint by 7%!

Laura Guérin — 2013-06-26T09:43:40Z

During the week 3 - 7 June 2013, Bistriţa Municipality organised a series of events dedicated to the World Environment Day, which this year had an overall theme Think.Eat.Save, encouraging the reduction of personal carbon footprint.
Thus, on the 6th of June at the meeting of the Local Energy Forum - created within the European project IMAGINE - the results of ENGAGE local campaign were presented.
ENGAGE has been launched in Bistrita on the 31st of March 2012 on the occasion of "Earth Hour (...)

ENGAGE nominated for the Sustainable Energy Europe Awards

Laura Guérin — 2013-06-17T08:31:05Z

ENGAGE has been nominated for the Sustainable Energy Europe Awards 2013, in the Communicating category.
Identified as a "simple idea with an innovative twist that makes tackling environmental issues fun", this European initiative has been selected as it creates awareness, changes the perception and brings about endorsement of energy efficiency via targeted and professionally carried out communication activities.
ENGAGE is one of the 25 actions shortlisted among the 224 projects submitted. (...)