Opengela’s General Assembly This European Project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme will continue for a further eight months, until January 2023. Therefore, the pilot neighbourhoods of Otxarkoaga (Bilbao) and Txonta (Eibar) will be able to finish the refurbishment of
The pilot projects in the neighbourhoods of Otxarkoaga and Txonta have received heads of organisations interested in implementing similar initiatives in two regions of Croatia, two in Spain, three counties in Ireland, and also two in Poland and Greece. The
In 2021, the progress of the two one-stop shops of the Opengela project is already visible: more than 700 people are participating in the programme, with a reduction of more than 50% in the CO2 emissions of the intervened buildings.
Shared self-consumption will enable the sharing of surplus energy generated by the solar panels of the F Shopping Centre and one of the five blocks of buildings being refurbished in Txotena Street. The initiative of Bilbao Municipal Housing together with
Representatives of Bilbao Municipal Housing and Debegesa during their intervention. A course of the Basque Institute of Public Administration (IVAP), aimed at civil servants and profesional, presents the cases of integral refurbishment in Otxarkoaga (Bilbao) and Txonta (Eibar), as well
REGISTER On 15th March 2022, Opengela and the Covenant of Mayors – Europe invite other IHRS from around Europe to show how they set up their One-Stop-Shop and their particularities. Urban regeneration is one of the key sectors for an
Interview Jon Bilbao, Councillor for Housing and President of the Bilbao Municipal Housing Association. The city of Bilbao is promoting one of the two pilot experiences of the Opengela project. The Otxarkoaga neighbourhood has set up an office to help
The three municipalities will benefit from the funds of the Berpiztu programme, through which the Department of Territorial Planning, Housing and Transport will allocate 17 million euros to strengthen urban regeneration actions in neighbourhoods in the Basque Country between 2021
Five entities from Croatia, Spain and Romania have been selected to bring the Opengela model to their respective regions. The Replication call launched last October by FEDARENE, the European Federation of Energy and Environment Agencies and Regions, has resulted in
This forum, organised by the Basque Government and UN-Habitat at the end of November, stressed the need to recover cities, focusing on social and environmental aspects. The Euskal Hiria congress held its twentieth edition this year. It is a classic
