Eco-Citizenship: International Meeting in Palermo

Tuesday 19 January 2016

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Everything is ready for the international meeting of STEP BY STEP. 9 partners from different EU countries will meet in Palermo to discuss about eco-citizenship, energy savings and on the progress of the project in the partners’ city.

In fact, STEP BY STEP is a project funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, which aims to improve citizens’ habits and consumers behaviours in terms of energy savings and environmental awareness.

STEP BY STEP is an innovative project (based on the webplatform gd6d.eu) which has promoted eco-friendly behaviours in the cities where is under implementation: Gent (Belgium), L’Alcudia (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) and Cefalù (PA, Italy). Infact:

  • 96 % of people agreed to be recontacted and so to give a feedback about the actions they have decided to try
  • 85 % agreed to try at least 1 very concrete action of eco-citizenship

Finally, a conference will be held on Wednesday 20th January 2016, starting from 4.30 p.m., at the Municipality of Cefalù. This event will give the opportunity to better understand the project, listening also the experience from partners’organisations which will attend the conference.

For further information research@cesie.org.


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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649733. This communication reflects only the author’s view and the EASME is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.