More than 30 people have attended on 23rd October 2012 the workshop entitled"Renewables, sustainability in urban planning and intelligent energy for European local authorities. The PATRES experience"that took place in Brussels in the premises of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Liaison office in Brussels in Rue du Commerce 49.

This event was part of the PATRES project -Public Administration Training and coaching on Renewable Energy Systems  funded by the European Commission under the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme and coordinated by AREA Science Park (Trieste), a project that will end on April 2013.

The workshop was opened by Ms Maria Laguna from EACI, (European Commission's Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation) who presented the perspectives of EU Funding from the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme in the future Horizon 20 20 planning. Afterwards the project coordinator, Mr. Fabio Tomasi, pointed out the main expected results that Patres project is close to reach in the 6 countries involved with a particular focus on the current state of the art in Croatia and Italy. Among the speakers, Mr. Frédéric Boyer for the Covenant of Mayors, Ms. Elisabetta Cucchi for the EIB (European Investment Bank), as well as two representatives of other EU-funded projects dealing with energy and environmental sustainability policies, Up-RES and Ecoheat4Cities.

During the final debate it was discussed the main barriers that hinder the achievement by the public authorities of the 2020 challenges in the field of energy, the gap between the innovative regulations that are moving towards the promotion of RES and energy efficiency and the lack of funding or loans available for small-size investments.

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