Sustainable Energy Information Centres – disseminating the experience from Georgia and Moldova (workshop)

Objective

Enhancing awareness on sustainable energy (SE) is one of the key aspects of the INOGATE work. Over the last years the team worked intensively on the development and implementation of Sustainable Energy Information Centres (SEIC) in Georgia and Moldova. The SEICs will be focal points for disseminating information on Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy Sources (RES), and will be instrumental in raising awareness of different target groups such as the general public, children, youth, industry (in particular Small and Medium Enterprises), policy makers and other stakeholders.

The work, which was in Georgia in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy of Georgia (MoE) and the Tbilisi City Hall (TCH) and in Moldova in cooperation with the Energy Efficiency Agency of Moldova (AEE), will be culminated with the inauguration of the Centres in the second half of April 2016.

 A two-days regional workshop (14-15 April 2016) is being organized by the ITS team in Chisinau, Moldova with participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine with the aim of disseminating the concept and the experience gained with the SEICs in Georgia and Moldova to all Eastern Partnership countries.

The overall objective of the workshop is to assist the decision makers in the beneficiary countries, who are currently not involved in concrete SEIC projects, to get first-hand experience from Georgia and Moldova and to explain the rationale for establishing a SEIC and to share lessons learned.