Report on the 3-day event

In the last months of the project, when tools and plans have been produced, tested, fine-tuned and implemented, a final 3-day event will take place (month 35), composed by a 1-day replication workshop and a 2-day mutual-learning event. It will be organized in Trieste (IT) on the premises of the project coordinator at an international level and with guests and participants belonging to institutions and organizations from all over Europe. The replication workshop will involve 12 organizations intending to take on the SIMPLA model and replicate its approach in their territories, creating new NFPs. The replicating organisations, to be selected through a public procedure, will be asked to sign a declaration of committment to officialise their engagement and will be provided with guidelines, inputs and suggestions by SIMPLA experts and local authorities. The second day will witness the participation of the 12 replicating organisations, the 16 project partners and the 24 best-performing local authorities having benefitted from capacity building and coaching activities in world café activities and role-playing sessions. The whole day will represent a unique opportunity of European-level mutual learning on hot themes related to integrated, multi-sector sustainable energy planning for cities. Representatives of public institutions and private organizations coming from different countries will share knowledge, experiences, issues and success stories to investigate recent developments with a perspective on the sustainable future of their countries. On the third day, a conference open to the public will be organized to showcase the best outputs produced by the project, its most successful coaching actions’ results, the turn-key solutions implemented by previous inspiring projects SIMPLA harks back to, and R&D solutions relevant to the SIMPLA approach. Besides taking stock of the project results, prospective developments will also be showed and discussed. The report will sumarize the event, the main conclusions and will include a full list of participants.