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Nastia FlegarThe Research and Educational Centre Mansion Rakičan is a public regional organization from Rakičan (2km from the city centre of Murska Sobota), cofounded by the municipality Murska Sobota, Slovenia. We are active in the field of research, education, tourism, intergenerational cooperation and lifelong learning.
We are situated in a mansion, which dates back to the 15th century. Now the mansion belongs to the Municipality of Murska Sobota. The administrator of the whole building is the Research and educational centre Mansion Rakičan, which offers a diverse range of services of great importance for the environment where it is located.
Since the partial renovation in the year 1990, the mansion has at its disposal 6 fully equipped class rooms and one multimedia room, which are used for numerous formal and informal educational programs, international conferences, seminars and different events. The academic program “Agroindustrial Management and Rural Development” is carried out at Rakičan mansion, which serves as an external unit of the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences of the University of Maribor.
The renovation in 1990 has furnished the mansion with accommodation capacities, which include 15 rooms with bathrooms and 45 beds.
The educational and accommodation capacities, as well as the office of the Research and educational centre Mansion Rakičan, are used during the whole year; therefore all of the accommodation rooms as well as the rest of the infrastructure is heated the whole year around. Our main heating sources are gas and electricity. As all other old buildings, our mansion is very ineffective and inefficient regarding room and water heating and the power consumption is very high. Since we are located in the rural part of Slovenia and surrounded with beautiful nature, we are looking for environmental friendly solutions, which could reduce the energy consumption.
We have many experiences in organizing international conferences, for example “Ecology for better tomorrow; Nutrition, exercise and health and Challenges and Problems of modern society”. So we could organize a conference on the subject of alternative options for sustainable energy resources where the options for such solutions that include buildings that are under protection could be presented and discussed. We could also provide a pilot study, so our case could be a good example how to preserve old historical buildings and at the same time implement a modern approach to sustainable energy and environmental friendly policies.INZA Institute for risk management and scientific research work, is the famous leader company for public and private partnerships in the field of civil protection. We continuosly serve in the 40-years period of hundreds of different regional clients in the field of fire protection, work safety and environmental protection.
INZA is a partner of EFECTIS GROUP- the biggest European family house ofcertification and testing laboratories in the field of fire protection, as well as Egolf (European Group of Organisations for Fire Testing, Inspection and Certification) – Europe’s largest group of organizations in the field of thermodynamic tests, testing and certification, also SECURITAS AG worldwide biggest company for private security services.
INZA is implementing an integrated certification according to the standards: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 23001, IS0 26000, ISO 31000 AND ISO 51,000th INZA testing laboratory is the only accredited laboratory in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond, in the field of fire protection, undertaken by the European standard EN ISO / IEC 17025: 2006 by the Institute for Accreditation of Bosnia and Herzegovina member of MLA and EA.
INZA is organized into three main sectors:
1. Engineering – Design, planning and supervising
2. Consulting, Education and international projects
3. Testing laboratories – certification,
whose joint action provides services in the field of fire protection, work safety, environmental protection, energy efficiency, testing and certification.INZA also provides services in the field of business consulting and training. INZA is highly-qualified institution to perform the most complex tasks in the field of fire protection and explosion.
The Institute employs INZA referenced PhDs, masters and multidisciplinary engineers in the field of PDO, Occupational Safety and LP, who are
also members of the technical committees for fire protection, and environment, safety of constructions in the fire, the BAS Institute for Standards, and certified court expert in the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and HerzegovinaINZA today, in addition to Bosnia and Herzegovina, operates in the countries of the region: Serbia, Montenegro and in the year 2016, plans to expand its operations in Macedonia and Albania.
We are also chairman of the NGO “ALPS” (Association for Risk Management).In the MED We are looking for partners in development project in wide area of civil protection.
Our contact point is info@inza.ba and inza@inza.ba,
Contact person: Edin Garaplija, board member for international cooperation.
Loreta BarbettiDear Eldin,
I’m writing you on behalf of Osimo Municipality which is interested in becoming partner of your project idea.The Municipality of Osimo is located on the middle East of Italy (Marche region), near the Adriatic Sea coast, with a population of over 30.000 inhabitants.
The municipality is now strongly engaged in the improvement of its policies, in order to make them more environmentally sustainable, in fields like public transport and public buildings. The 18th June 2015 it officially became member of the Covenant of Mayors.Do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail (l.barbetti@t33.it) if Osimo City should be a desiderable partner for you.
Regards
Loreta Barbetti
Dear Eldin,
I’m writing you on behalf of the Municipality of Serres, Greece, which is interested in becoming partner of your project idea.
Serres is the capital of the prefecture of Serres with a rich historic and cultural background. Geographically is located in Northern Greece and is the second largest city of the Region of Central Macedonia (76,430 inhabitants according to 2011 census) as well as the largest regional urban center of Central Macedonia. The city of Serres constitutes the focal point of development in the region. The Municipality of Serres acts as a pole of development of the wider region as well as a cross-border cooperation center, capitalizing on its location, population size, growth potential and transnational initiatives.
Energy efficiency in public buildings is a major issue in the region, which the Municipality is located in and also there are a lot bulidings and areas of cultural heritage, which need to be restored in order to promote tourism.
If you believe that we could contribute to this project I look forward to hearing back from you soon at:
lizeta@kverros.grBest Regards,
Michalaki Lizeta
Yiannis CharalambousDear Nastia,
I am writing to you in order to position our interest to participate in your’s Energy efficiency and Restauration of old towns Project Proposal, with our company OMAS Cyprus Ltd, an Innovation, Technology and Management Consulting company, located in Nicosia, Cyprus.OMAS is has participated and developed expertise in the area of “Sustainable Renovation”, we can therefore apply our’s network experiences for the Design and implementation of an Innovative Sustainable Renovation Project for historical sites.
I remain at your disposal for any further info and/or clarification you may need.
Best Regards
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Yiannis Charalambous
Managing Partner
OMAS CYPRUS LTD
T: +357 22 011 149 | F: +357 22 768 405 | Mbl: +357 99 636 505 |
e-mail : Yiannis.Charalambous@omascyprus.com, http://www.omascyprus.com , Skype Name:ych.itmc
ATO SELEDear Eldin
the Ambito Territoriale Ottimale (ATO) SELE is a ‘Covenant Coordinators’, a public administrations which provide strategic guidance, financial and technical support to municipalities signing up to the Covenant of Mayors but lacking necessary skills and/or resources to fulfil their requirements.ATO has established a working group with Department of Environment Science and Technology (DiSTABiF) of the Seconda Università di Napoli (SUN) and other local enterprise, including SME Norman Research: in this context, 10 JOINT SEAPs (SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACTION PLAN) were executed with the involvement of about 90 municipalities for a population of over 406,000 inhabitants and a territorial area of about 3,000 metre quadric localized to the southern area of Italy, in the Convergence regions-Campania Region to the south of the Salerno province. All these JOINT SEAPs has already received the approval of the JRC, the European Union SEAP revision official.
In this context, ATO SELE has an on-going program of operations on the properties of the company and municipalities that are ATO compliant with regard to the following actions:
– Operations to modernize and maintain the public lighting network.
– Energy Redevelopment of public buildings through operations on the heat management systems.
– Energy Redevelopment of public buildings through operations on the electrical systems.
– Energy Redevelopment of public buildings through operations on the building envelopes.
– Energy saving and optimizing the water systems.
– Policies to encourage the use of technologies with a low energy / environmental impact: pilot project “Efficient historic villages”.
– Installation of photovoltaic systems on public buildings
– Installation of solar heating systems on public buildings and sports structures.
– Sustainable mobility: Electric Mobility Network.
– Development of a software platform to monitor actions.
– Implementation of an Energy Management System.It has been estimated that after the proposed operations have been implemented, there would be a total energy saving of 2.959.492 MWh. The overall reduction of greenhouse gasses is estimated to be 286,382 tons of CO2.
Moreover, ATO SELE has established an energy service company (ESCO Cilento, Vallo Diano Sele srl) with and the Ambito Territoriale Ottimale (ATO) SELE in order to realize the investment program.If we could take part and contribute to your Project with ours ideas and methods, please contact us at: info@normanresearch.it
Maria Pilar PerezDear Eldin,
I write on behalf of the Energy Agency of la Ribera.We are a public administration in the Region of Valencia (Spain) and we have 45 municipalities. We have a lot of historic buildings. We have been involved recently in a MED project about energy retrofit in public buildings (Republic-MED) where a methodology to perform energy retrofit has been develop. We are very interested in participating in the Consortium. My contact mail is pilar@aer-ribera.com.
Looking forward to hearing from you
M. Pilar Perez
Dear Eldin,
my name is Chatzilamprou Ismini and I would like to inform you that the Region of Thessaly in Greece, would be very interested in your project idea. The region has many public buildings in its municipalities that could and should be reused in an energy efficient way.
If you are interested in a cooperation, or for any further information, please contact us at: topoismini@gmail.com.
Best regards,
Ismini
José António FalcãoDear Mr. Begic,
We would like to indicate our interest to study the possibility of becoming a Portuguese partner of your consortium.
Established 1984, the “Departamento do Património Histórico e Artístico da Diocese de Beja” [DPHA] (Department of Historical and Artistic heritage, Diocesis of Beja) is a pioneer ONG, operating with national, regional and local authorities, in safeguarding the religious heritage. In particular, it is in charge of the cultural heritage of the Beja region, in the South of Portugal, between the Atlantic ocean and the Spanish border. The Diocese of Beja keeps over 200.000 inventoried works of art in churches, monasteries, convents and museums and over 500 buildings.
Among the many areas of work of his team, 12 professional and 214 volunteers, are: inventory of religious cultural goods; ensuring equity for communities and social inclusion; creation of a core of technical advice; churches restoration and re-opening; support for cultural itineraries.
The experience of Beja is particularly relevant in inventories, conservation, publications and development of local communities. The DPHA chose to enlarge its range of activities on heritage and biodiversity in order to involve a wider public. In addition, organizes since 2003 the Festival Terras sem Sombra (FTSS), which aims to become accessible the monuments of Alentejo. This is due to a partnership between the DPHA as well the “dynamic forces” of Alentejo.
The FTSS has an itinerant character and focuses its action on the developing of new audiences and the connection to local communities. Its high international level of the programme is composed by, beyond concerts, master classes, conferences, guides tours and some pedagogic artistic actions. The dialog between the past and the contemporary creation, as well as the opening to young composers and interpreters, the order for works, the intersections among the arts, the rescue of the musicological heritage, are, together, structural elements of the project.
This is the background in which the FTSS shows the relevance of the environmental and cultural value of this territory, presenting one of the best index of preservation in Europe. Each concert is accompanied by a volunteering pilot-action in order to save its biodiversity. The principles of inclusion and sustainability are an integral part of the rules of the FTSS. The concerts and other activities provide open access within the constraints imposed by the preservation of the monuments and the place visited as well.
The “Festival Terras sem Sombra” desires to persuade the whole community to join efforts to obtain a well-balanced and sustained development for Southern Europe.
The International Prize “Terras sem Sombra”, created by the Festival in 2011, is awarded annually to three personalities or institutions that stood out, globally, in the areas of music, cultural heritage and biodiversity preservation.
Best regards,José António Falcão
Department of Historical and Artistic Heritage, Diocesis of Beja
L. dos Prazeres, 4
PT 7800-420 Beja
Phone: + 00351 284 320 918
dphadb@sapo.pt
http://www.festivalterrassemsombra.pt
Ars Civilis FoundationDear Eldin,
The Ars Civilis Foundation (Murcia, Spain) is really interested in participating in your project idea of the MED Program and have the possibility to collaborate with you and the other partners.
Our foundation has experience in energy eficiency, especially in historical heritage; last year we co-organized the Congress for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings in Madrid.
One of the main points of cultural heritage preservation is a new form of governance that requires incorporating as active actors: all the institutions, neighbors, associations and SMEs who allows creating long-run projects and actions with an important protagonism of the civil society. Civil society has to be the main protagonist and of the historical heritage preservation.
We use to collaborate for the creation of standards and criteria for the cultural heritage conservation and diffusion that could be very useful for sustainable tourism management. We think that we could share and bring a lot of other useful knowledge and experiences, considering that the heritage preservation and the tourism are entirely interdependent.Yours sincerely,
Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Ars Civilis Foundation
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