26 Oct 21 Workshop Save the date Buildings at the heart of the EU’s new energy system Our EU-funded project syn.ikia showing the way at #EUSEW21 This policy session will shed light on the potential that buildings offer for a successful transformation of the energy system by 2030 by empowering citizens at all levels and enabling the scale-up of holistic energy renovations. The speakers will present inspiring initiatives and best practices that are already in place at neighbourhood (Syn.ikia’s Sustainable Plus Energy Neighbourhoods), city (the MAtchUP project in València) and community level (REScoop’s citizen-led renovation). The presentations will highlight ways to empower residents to play a role in the energy transition while responding to their needs, especially lower-income households. These solutions place buildings in a broader and more interlinked context by reducing their energy use, acting as storage and ensuring a balanced grid, integrating renewables, using smart energy management systems as well as offering people a comfortable environment where to live.
26 Oct 21 Conference Save the date Building renovation: Riding the wave 9:00-10:30 CET | Housing Europe shares its view on the review of the EPBD during the EU Sustainable Energy Week Tune in for this EU Sustainable Energy Week session to hear about the latest developments on the implementation of the Renovation Wave and the review of the EPBD. Housing Europe will take the opportunity to present the view of the public, cooperative and social housing sector in Europe on the upcoming directive, ahead of the adoption by the end of the year.
25 Oct 21 Workshop Save the date A Citizen-led Renovation Wave 16:00 - 17:30 CET | Housing Europe joints forces with fellow organisations at #EUSEW2021 Accelerating home renovations in Europe, and the targets laid out by the European Green Deal, will not succeed without adequately involving and supporting the 195 million households that live in those homes. This means empowering citizens to take action, provide adequate support, and strive for renovations that result in comfortable, healthy, safe, and affordable homes. This session showcases how citizens across Europe – both tenants and homeowners – are already participating in renovation projects and highlights what can be done at the European and Member State level to support this growing citizen-led renovation movement. This will be followed by a discussion with the speakers and the audience on how to ensure that the Renovation Wave delivers healthy, safe, affordable, and energy efficient homes for all. The session brings together contributions from social, public, and cooperative housing providers, regional actors, consumer and tenants perspectives, and energy communities.
13 Oct 21 Internal Meeting Save the date Housing Europe Working Committees Meetings 13-14 October 2021 | Online Meeting Housing Europe members and partners gather twice a year for the Working Committee meetings. Due to COVID-19 restrictive measures our Social Affairs, Urban Affairs, Observatory, Economics, Finance & Internal Market, and Energy, Construction & Standardisation committees will take place online.
11 Oct 21 Workshop Save the date Housing Solutions Platform Debate on the Collective Housing Transformation 11 October, 14:00 – 16:00 CEST Systematised emergency accommodation is a reactive, disorganised and segmented response to homelessness. As the main response to homelessness, generalised and institutionalised, it is an ineffective, inefficient and unsafe solution. Indeed, solving homelessness requires long-term affordable housing, sometimes integrated with support services. Where is long-term affordable housing going to come from? How can it be made available quickly and at-scale whilst ensuring adequacy?
6 Oct 21 Save the date Launch of the #Housing2030 study at the Palais des nations in Geneva UNECE Ministerial Meeting on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management The long-awaited Housing 2030 study that looks at land policy, decarbonisation of homes, sustainable finance and better governance while ensuring housing affordability will be officially launched on October, 6th during UNECE's Ministerial Meeting on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management.
5 Oct 21 Conference Save the date Housing Europe Leaders Summit RE-FRAMING HOUSING TOGETHER | 5th & 6th October 2021 | Palais des Nations, Geneva The challenges and problems are clear to our sector. However, ensuring policymakers and the public share our views and approaches require a strong and clear re-framing of the social and affordable housing sector, supported by strong evidence, at the heart of the new paradigm needed to building back better for people and the planet.
27 Sep 21 Conference Save the date Leading in certain times: Leadership Programme for Housing Executives 27 Sep - 1 Oct, 2021 From September 27th to October 1st, 2021, the Sciences Po University in Paris will host an exclusive course only for EFL and Housing Europe members. In this course, Housing Europe's Secretary-General, Sorcha Edwards and TU Delft's Professor for Housing Management, Vincent Gruis will host a round table, dedicated to the Future of Social Housing in Europe.
5 Jul 21 Workshop Save the date Social Housing & Rapid Digitalisation: Working Together (and Apart) EBZ/EFL Summer School for Young & Early Career Professionals | 05–12 July 2021, Online Social & affordable housing providers around Europe are dealing with rapidly changing conditions. Specifically, in the COVID-19 crisis, the digitalisation of many of their organisational functions & services has sped up. Housing Europe as one of the co-organisers has planned this programme & hoped that our patterns of living will soon normalise, the year 2021 has many of us asking if higher levels of remote working and digital service provision are becoming the new normal.
23 Jun 21 Conference Save the date Dynamics and Challenges of Housing International Housing Conference The present and future of housing, in a forum that aims to cross local, national and international public policies, fostering the integration of the main strategies of the sector.
22 Jun 21 Workshop Save the date Big data approaches for building policy and and management 1st MATRYCS Stakeholder Workshop | 22nd June 2021 | 9:30-11:00 CET Building sector accounts a significant percentage of total global energy-related CO2 emissions. Energy is consumed at different buildings’ lifecycle and can be analysed from different perspectives or scales. That means that competitive solutions should be found in the building sector to revolutionise energy efficiency and management in buildings.
18 Jun 21 Conference Save the date Ending Homelessness post-Covid 19: what social housing policies and partnerships? 18 June | 10:00 AM CET | Online Conference The pandemic has clearly demonstrated the importance of securing access to adequate and affordable homes. Not having a home or living in overcrowded housing were some of the strongest predictors of Covid19 infections. Homelessness increased rapidly over the last decade, and further increases in the number of people who experience homelessness and severe housing exclusion is likely in the aftermath of the pandemic.
17 Jun 21 Internal Meeting Save the date Housing Europe General Assembly 17th June 2021 | Online Conference The annual General Assembly of Housing Europe will take place online this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Elevating the sector as a force for social resilience and positive change locally but also towards European and International bodies has become more important than ever.
16 Jun 21 Conference Save the date Housing Europe Annual Conference & Social Housing Film Festival 16-17 June 2021 | Digital meet-up On 16th June, Housing Europe's Annual Conference 'New European Bauhaus #BuildingCommunities' will bring together online public, cooperative and social housing providers, European city mayors, architects and EU officials with the aim to define how we can harness design to go beyond social inclusion and create Next Generation Neighbourhoods. The conference will also kick off the two-day Social Housing Film Festival (16-17 June), a compilation of 18 thought-provoking films in different kind of genres that all have two things in common - the power of public, cooperative or social housing to improve people’s lives and a strong human element.
9 Jun 21 Workshop Save the date Boosting Energy Communities in the EU Online event – 9th June 2021; 10:00-11:30 (CEST) Housing Europe and The International Union of Property Owners (UIPI) invite you to join the first webinar of a series of three looking at the challenges and opportunities that exist in the EU to develop energy communities, in the scope of the Horizon2020 ‘NRG2peers‘ project on June 9th, 10h GMT+1.