CONTEXT: Europe wants to lead the clean energy transition, committed to cut CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030. The new regulatory framework includes an energy efficiency target for the EU for 2030 of 32.5% with an upwards revision clause by 2023. A successful clean energy transition requires citizens to take ownership, to benefit from new technologies and to participate actively in the market. In addition, a transition should ensure that vulnerable consumers are protected from energy poverty, a situation that According to the Energy Poverty Observatory, affects more than 50 million households in the EUThe EC wants to help consumers to embrace this transition by helping them with everyday operations like billing and changing suppliers. The EU supports MS to reduce consumers’ energy costs, monitor and report when energy poverty cases are detected. There is a large range of solutions to help consumers to reduce their energy demand, the energy billing, the carbon emissions and thus energy povertyOBJECTIVES: In this context, a group or partners propose to create the Training for Energy Consumers Empowerment (TRECE). This training addresses energy poverty through actively involving citizens and social agents in the design and development of its solutions, as well as by tailoring information to user characteristics, ensuring acceptability, uptake and active participation. The objectives of the project are: - Create a training program to for social agents and public authorities, to be addressed to a vulnerable sector such people in energy poverty situation. - Provide these entities several tools to detect energy poverty cases in the population, such the analysis of consumption patterns- Reduce the energy poverty of the population by improving the understanding of their energy consumption and presenting them with solutions, all thanks to the training that will be given to the intermediate agents who will be able to facilitate these changes in habits.- Change the energy consumers behaviour to increase the energy efficiency of their houses- Empower the final private consumers towards the decision to improve their energy efficiency and to foster the purchase of Renewable Energies via the different energy suppliers - Reduce energy consumption and thus CO2 emissions- Create an attractive training based on a MOOC that social agents and public authorities can easily disseminate through the target groups, taking a approach of training for trainersPARTICIPANTSThe project will be carried out by 5 entities from 5 EU member states- SGS- Spain (Applicant), a multinational group and energy efficiency expert, with long expertise in the development of training programs for VET. - Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving- Greece: Is the official Greek government consultant on matters of RES/RUE/ES national policy, strategy and planning. - ENERO- Romania- An independent non-profit technical consultancy and research centre active in the energy field, whose activity focuses on renewables and energy efficiency promotion- Sofia Energy Agency- Bulgaria: a non-governmental organisation and non-profit legal entity established in 2001 to assists local and national authorities in developing a sustainable energy policy - Local Energy Agency of Gorenjska- Slovenia: founded as a public institution by the City Municipality of Kranj in 2009, they offer consultation with municipalities and companies on energy management and use of Renewable Energy Sources ACTIVITIES and METHODOLOGYConsortium will build this training program through 3 main activities:1- A first assesment of energy consumers and trainers needs’, which will lead to an strategy for the training development2- The development of the training programme: which facilitates the empowerment of energy consumers and behavioural change.3- The development of a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) for several social agents such NGOs and municipalities to tackle energy povertyFirstly, the partners will define strategies for approaching and engaging the groups that will interact with TRECE training program (social agents, public bodies, and the final beneficiaries (people susceptible of suffering energy poverty, ), with special attention to these groups motivations and barriers to participateThe consortium will develop a training program embedded in a MOOC. The training materials that will be designed in order to be compatible with the most common e-learning environments and to be uploaded on MOOC and OER repositories.RESULTS, IMPACT and LONG TERM BENEFITSThe TRECE project will bring several benefits to society:-New tools for social agents, NGOs, municipalities and energy agencies to detect and tackle energy poverty-Creation of a training program to address energy consumers’ needs-Reduction of the energy bill of these consumers-Detect the main points of energy losses-Improvement of the learning methods through innovative training matter