W4RES

Women hold great potential as agents of change, facilitating the uptake of renewable energy in the EU, helping us progress faster towards our climate and energy targets for 2030 and ultimately, propelling the clean energy transition. W4RES aims at scaling-up the involvement of women in the market deployment and uptake of Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC) solutions via replicable support measures tested and validated across 8 countries. To this end W4RES will monitor, evaluate and report all of our results, while at the same time employing them to fuel and coordinate multi-stakeholder debates, good practice exchanges and efforts at local, national and international level towards breaking down barriers and driving the gender-smart and inclusive market uptake of RES in heating and cooling.

More specifically, the partners will:

• Assess regional specificities and frameworks at local, national and EU level to reveal factors that can hinder or enable the wider uptake of RHC in our target markets along with their gender dimension
• Co-create, develop and fine-tune viable solutions for scaling-up the involvement of women in introducing, deploying and supporting the uptake of renewable energy in the heating and cooling market.
• Deploy, test, co-evaluate and validate W4RES’ solutions, supporting RHC market uptake in diverse regional contexts, framework conditions and local heating and cooling markets across Europe.
• Engage in multi-stakeholder cooperation, exchange knowledge and elaborate policy guidelines and recommendations for more informed policy, market support and financial frameworks.
• Raise awareness and communicate the project and its results, while also planning and acting towards fostering their widespread adoption and sustainable exploitation in the long term.