Build a new Energy Renovation Strategy around the Mediterranean

The process of building up MEDBEES (Mediterranean Building Energy Efficiency Strategy) started with the diagnosis, identifying the main barriers and outlining a first scheme of more promising lines of intervention and measures. The MARIE pilot activities will allow this scheme to be tested: reviewing and refining the definition of barriers and measures.

During 2013 and 2014 the MEDBEES Intervention Programs will be defined and assessed in environmental, social and economic terms. These programs will cover:

• new regulatory requirements and institutional tools
• new financial mechanisms
• innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
• communication and training.

Consensus, commitment and coordination are essential aspects of the MEDBEES construction process, in this sense MEDBEES should involve the majority of representative public and private agents in this market.

The MEDBEES construction process is conceived as interactive, with continuous feedback in order to reach a consolidated and useful strategy. For this reason the data collection and analysis, the methodological development, the testing, the programs and the interactions will all be open to review and refinement right until the end of the project in December 2014.

After completion of the MARIE project, in the period 2014 to 2020, MEDBEES will be implemented and the MARIE results will be measured and evaluated.