As young people are facing high unemployment rates and possible climate disaster, it is important that they feel empowered and like they can make a difference and contribute towards a better and more sustainable community. This project aims to develop and introduce innovation into learning and teaching materials on the topic of social entrepreneurship, linking it to environmental and climate matters and to other valuable skills, while using gamification and making learning materials freely available in an online platform. This is a project about providing innovative, open and free learning and teaching resources.The goal is to introduce young people to entrepreneurship social entrepreneurship in general (with mentions of current policies in Europe regarding youth unemployment & social enterprises), while also increasing awareness on environmental and climate matters, teaching valuable skills. Such will be done through making materials available online (in a printable format), which use gamification practices, including a board game. In order to provide such an online platform populated by learning and teaching materials, not only will there be testing of the platform itself, but extensive testing of the materials as well. Workshops, trainings and other learning events will be conducted in the countries of the organisations involved to make sure that the materials developed are of high quality and effective with students regardless of their status, country, etc.Through the project it is expected that approximately 100 young people, (including some socio-economically marginalised) will have the opportunity to be directly involved in innovative learning and teaching related to improvement of various environmental and sustainability issues in relation to social entrepreneurship methodology. Apart from the young people, it is expected that more than 20 youth workers/non-formal educators will be directly involved in the project through participation in the workshops and testing of the developed innovative tool.The organisations involved in this project have been carrying out learning events in the past, but have been limited by their own location and subsequent reach to young people. To make these materials available online would mean to expand their reach and to possibly start affecting thousands of young people. To promote the rise of social entrepreneurship that aims to move us towards more sustainable communities and lifestyles.This project wants to promote learning about social entrepreneurship and more, but to do so in a way that is fun for young people and engages with them effectively.

"Already in 2008, the EU brought its climate package on the way. With the 20-20-20 targets, as relevant part of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the CO2 emissions shall be reduced by 20 per cent until 2020, the share of renewable energies increased by 20 per cent and the energy efficiency raised by 20 per cent. Apart from the increasing of the efficiency in all energy applications and in the energy transmission as well as the growing replacing of fossil energy sources with regenerative energy sources, the behaviour of the households and other consumer groups needs to change. The Power Saving Check that has been offered all over Germany since 2008 and in Hungary since 2015, consists of the mediation of knowledge for users in households with low income for their conscious dealing with energy in heating, cooking, lighting and the use of electronical devices, media and communication devices and sensitises them for a raised awareness in the purchase of those items in relation to their energy needs. This knowledge and skill mediation is done in form of a free consultation - the Power Saving Check. Through the change in the user behaviour and minor investments the electricity and water consumption of those households can be relevantly reduced. The consultation is assigned to the so-called Power Saving Checkers - unemployed, particularly long-term unemployed and unemployed young people - and requires an according qualification. An adequate adult education course was adapted within the project, transferred into Slovakia and Slovenia and in Slovakia it was also accredited by the Ministry of Education. Project results delivered are: 1. The Curriculum for the qualification as Power Saving Checker and the Handbook for Power Saving Checkers were further developed, transferred into Slovakia and Slovenia and in all partner countries adapted for the local specific needs and translated into partner languages. In Slovakia and Slovenia these represent a completely new educational offer. In Slovakia the Curriculum was successfully accredited by the Ministry of Education. 2. The Curriculum and Handbook were completed and further developed by the contents of ""Power Saving Check in Public buildings. These were successfully then implemented in Slovakia and Slovenia. In Germany and Hungary the Power Saving Checks in Public buildings were not possible due to the local legal regulations of public buildings maintenance. 3. Pilot Training enabled 10 experienced educators from partner organizations to further multiply the Power Saving Check qualification in their partner countries. These individual acted as trainers who subsequently trained the Power Saving Checkers in their countries, thus ensuring multiplication of the skills and competences. According training materials were jointly developed by partners. 4. Completed Curriculum and Handbook were than tested during the Test phases. Altogether 46 unemployed and young individuals and people working in public buildings were trained. Test phases were implemented in Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. 5. Qualified Power Saving Checkers implemented the Power Saving Checks in low-income households and public buildings in Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. Altogether 73 low-income households and 29 public buildings were implemented with free Power Saving Check. 6. The completed Curricula and Handbooks were transformed into e-Learning course accessible online at www.powersavingcheck-test.eu. It can be used for further education in all countries, and/or for development of skills and power saving techniques by any person interested. 7. The completed, tested and optimised Curricula for the qualification as Power Saving Checker were recognized and accredited by the Ministry of education in Slovakia. 8. Information on the project and its results were disseminated, the according target groups were reached. Implementation of the Power Saving Check will have a long lasting benefits for the recipients of free consultations. Firstly, by altering their behaviour, installing new technologies they achieve palpable saving of the costs which will have social and economic benefit. Additionally, CO2 emissions were saved and climate protection benefit plays role. Furthermore, trained Power Saving Checkers gained new skills, were motivated to work and helped to integrate in social as well as in labour market sphere."

REMARKABLE will support local leaders to deliver a step change in progress towards carbon neutrality by 2050 in 7 regions across Europe. REMARKABLE will establish, by 2024, a network of 320 Current and Emerging Climate Leaders who, through their actions and inspiration, will drive their municipalities, public authorities, communities and regions to transform their approaches from ones focused on energy efficiency/renewables to ones focused on the strategic goal of climate neutrality by 2050. REMARKABLE will build new leadership capacity in 120 actors from 7 countries in Europe though a Climate Leadership Programme (CLP). The CLP will be inspired by ethnographic research and will be designed with and for leaders across public authorities. The REMARKABLE CLP will also facilitate the creation of 60 Roadmaps for public authorities aiming at Climate Neutrality by 2050. These Roadmaps will allow our Climate Leaders to translate strategic aspirations and policy ambitions into concrete and disruptive far reaching measures stimulating €300m investment by 2030. A Climate and Energy Check Tool will be developed and tested along with a Climate Neutrality Roadmap Guide. The 7 Regional Energy Agencies involved in REMARKABLE will develop 14 new services to expand their roles as change agents in the Clean Energy Transition and Climate Neutrality challenges. Climate Neutrality Training, Climate One Stop Shops, Financing Solutions are targeted as potential services. REMARKABLE will exploit its outcomes and results through the creation of an EU Climate Leaders Circle, reaching up to 320 members by 2024 including 30 from 7 Observer Regions/Countries. An innovative Climate Neutrality Challenge will be organised for Young Climate Leaders. The REMARKABLE Circle will create synergies with existing networks and initiatives e.g. COMO, ManagEnergy to support and enhance their impacts with the ambition of mobilising 10,000 stakeholders by 2030 (2,000 by 2024)

PROSPECT+ will build on the existing H2020 project PROSPECT to enable capacity building in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement effective and efficient sustainable energy plans, including their proper monitoring and verification and also ensuring that such plans are using synergies from other local plans and that their effects are properly monitored. The learning will continue through the 5 learning modules (public buildings, private buildings, public lighting, transport, and cross-sectoral), with more attention given to improved decision-making of cities on how they choose projects for financing, as well as how to assess and ensure that their projects are finance-ready. The types of innovative financing and the modules will stay the same, but the methodology, the process, and the learning materials will be greatly improved. The ambition of PROSPECT+ is to ensure that over 200 EU cities in at least 20 EU MS improve their capacities when it comes to implementing projects from SECAPs and similar sustainable plans.