On 29 January 2020, the European Commission’s new work programme was published. Under the first priority – ‘a European Green Deal’, the Commission announced its intention to launch a ‘renovation wave’ initiative in the buildings sector. According to the work programme, this initiative should be adopted in the third quarter of 2020. Currently, only around 1 % of buildings in the EU are renovated each year. A faster rate of renovation is necessary to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In this context of this initiative, INZEB is organizing on Thursday, May 28, 2020, at 13.00 CET an online discussion on the Renovation Wave and how Greece could benefit from this new initiative.

Agenda
Renovation Wave: What’s in for Greece?
Session 1: 13.00 – 14.00 CET (this session will be in English)

• 13.00 Welcome by Alice Corovessi, INZEB
• 13.05 Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign
• 13.15 Monica Frassoni, EU-ASE
• 13.25 Arianna Vitali Roscini, BPIE
• 13.35 Maria Spyraki MEP, EPP
• 13.45 Q&A Session
• 14.00 End of session 1

Session 2: 14.00 – 14.30 CET (this session will be in Greek)

This session will be dedicated to an open discussion with the event’s participants coming from various stakeholders groups. The focus will be on how the European Commission’s initiative “Renovation Wave” can support the increase of the rate of building renovations in Greece.

To support the discussion, the results of two research projects related to the renovation of buildings will be briefly presented.

iBRoad: Building Renovation Passports, Alexander Deliyannis, Sympraxis Team
Triple – A: Making investments more transparent and attractive, Dr. Haris Doukas, Assoc. Professor NTUA