Deadline: 23-Sep-2025
The European Commission has launched the Energy Renovation Solutions Programme – Making buildings’ renovation faster, deeper, affordable, smarter, service- and data-driven
Objectives
- This topic contributes to the goals of the EU Renovation Wave strategy and aims to help implement current and future building policies, notably in view of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) but also considering aspects of the New European Bauhaus initiative.
- This topic addresses several areas that are key for the achievement of the ambitious EU targets for the decarbonisation of buildings. It aims to develop and deploy approaches that bring actors, markets, frameworks and innovative solutions together to increase the attractiveness and cost-effectiveness of building performance upgrades and to reduce the administrative, logistic and financial burden that still goes along with buildings’ retrofitting.
- The topic also aims to address the need for qualitative data to make building policy and information instruments more reliable and meaningful, to increase the public acceptance/demand and support robust verification and financing of building renovation and up-grade.
Scope
- Proposals are expected to focus on one of the two scopes (A or B) established below:
- Scope A: Fostering energy renovations and competitiveness
- Under Scope A, actions should address one of the following areas/aspects:
- Increase renovation rates and deliver progress towards achieving a fully decarbonised, zero emission building stock by 2050, as defined in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
- Proposals should focus on removing market barriers, stimulating demand and scaling up energy renovations.
- Proposals should deploy strategies and business models for renovation that can be replicated across multiple buildings, increasing current renovation rates, and on aggregating demand to facilitate more cost effective, affordable, simple and efficient renovations. Proposals should support the large-scale roll out of solutions, models and approaches that lead to high quality renovations with energy performance guarantees, driving market confidence and stimulating investments. Proposals should take into account all actors in the renovation value chain as relevant (e.g. demand, building owners and investors, occupants, public and decision-making authorities, financial institutions, construction sector representatives, etc.).
- Improve capacity and productivity of companies in the construction sector to deliver the ambition towards a decarbonised building stock.
- Proposals should support actors and companies in the supply chain of the construction sector, notably SMEs, to deliver energy renovations faster, with high quality and reduced costs. This may require the integration of new products, materials and processes with respect to current companies’ practice. Proposals should support companies move towards more industrialised processes and optimised ways of working, standardising projects and solutions (including modular and prefabricated solutions where relevant) and facilitating the uptake of digital solutions, including to increase labour productivity in the sector.
- Increase renovation rates and deliver progress towards achieving a fully decarbonised, zero emission building stock by 2050, as defined in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
- Under Scope A, actions should address one of the following areas/aspects:
- Scope B: Building instruments, data and services
- Actions are expected to improve the availability, quality and accuracy of buildings data, in particular in view of enhancing the reliability and consistency of key policy instruments and information tools, such as Energy Performance Certificates (EPC), Renovation Passports (RP) and the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI). Actions may moreover help explore and foster the use of buildings data, and in particular energy consumption data, for the development and financing of services that enhance the energy performance and comfort of buildings and the efficiency of the system.
- Actions should address for example one or more of the following areas/aspects:
- Develop, implement and roll-out approaches that improve the availability, quality and consistency of data for Energy Performance Certificates, including by using new or different assessment methods and different integrated data sources, towards improving the accuracy and reliability of EPCs, their indicators and recommendations.
- Improve the reliability and usefulness of Energy Performance Certificates and Renovation Passports and increase the transparency of building performance and renovation needs towards enhancing the market value of energy performance and comfort and to guard against energy poverty; this includes for example actions that help link the rating of EPCs and the improvement of the rating to the value of a building in view of potential investments; this also includes methods to facilitate comparisons of energy costs, indoor environmental quality and other relevant parameters.
- Support the roll-out of Renovation Passports (RP) for buildings as introduced by the revised EPBD to provide building owners planning a staged renovation with a clear strategy for the best timing, sequencing and scope of their interventions. This could include actions to improve the practical market implementation aspects as well as measures to create demand and promote the use of RPs.
- Scope A: Fostering energy renovations and competitiveness
Funding Information
- The estimated available call budget is EUR 91 400 000.
- LIFE-2025-CET-BETTERRENO: EUR 6 000 000
Expected Impact
- Proposals submitted under this topic should present the concrete results which will be delivered by the activities and demonstrate how these results will contribute to the topic-specific impacts. This demonstration should include a detailed analysis of the starting point and a set of well-substantiated assumptions and establish clear causality links between the results and the expected impact. Proposals should quantify their results and impacts using the indicators provided for the topic, when they are relevant for the proposed activities. They should also propose indicators which are specific to the proposed activities. Proposals are not expected to address all the listed impacts and indicators. The results and impacts should be quantified for the end of the project and for 5 years after the end of the project.
- For Scope A:
- Proposals submitted under Scope A should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following impacts, depending on the area addressed:
- Increased demand for energy renovation and increased energy renovation rates.
- Implementation of demand aggregation strategies.
- Viable business models for renovations with reduced costs and time, replicable at large scale.
- Improved capacity of companies in the supply side of renovation works to deliver high quality renovations with guarantees reducing costs and time.
- Proposals submitted under Scope A should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following impacts, depending on the area addressed:
- For Scope B
- Proposals submitted under Scope B should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following impacts:
- Improved reliability and consistency of Energy Performance Certificates; increased up-take of EPCs in the market, including stronger consideration in the valorisation of buildings and buildings portfolios.
- Improved availability, quality and accuracy of buildings and energy performancerelated data; improved use of buildings performance data by financial institutions, service providers and building owners/operators, e.g. to deploy innovative financing schemes and/ or dedicated financial products.
- Better quality and cost-effectiveness of inspections and of the assessment procedures carried out for the Energy Performance Certificate, Building Renovation Passport and Smart Readiness Indicator.
- Up-take of improved methodologies to measure and monetise primary benefits and co-benefits of energy renovation services, such as environmental and health externalities.
- Proposals submitted under Scope B should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following impacts:
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
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