EGS Project

In France, the local forums were organised by AREHN to discuss about energy saving and energy efficiency in school with different stakeholders. It aims at strengthen the capacities of the schools and their role in policy making, making their capabilities available for the local communities and involving stakeholders in and around the schools. The goal is to actively develop ideas to increase energy efficiency at the local community level related to the schools. The forum took place in the high school Les Fontenelles in Louviers.

Each forum was dedicated to a specific thematic (one thematic per forum) in order to define problems, objectives, priorities and actions during the same forum:

• 18/12/2009 = Energy and teaching actions
• 18/01/2010 = Energy and cooperation with local economic actors
• 23/02/2010 = Energy and daily life of the school

Different stakeholders (interested persons, environmental agency, local energy agency, parents, students, teachers, school administration and authorities) were involved in the forums and discussions about possible projects/actions have been launched.

Thanks to the strong implication of the high school Les Fontenelles and the participation of the staff school, the forums were successful.

A lot of stakeholders participated but it was especially hard to associate local authorities.

At least, different target groups at local level were involved and 10 actions were proposed. Each forum mobilizes more than 15 participants.