Home renovation is a journey that many homeowners dread to take. Nevertheless, Europe’s energy crisis urges us to take action immediately. Opengela, like other One-Stop-Shop programmes, has proved to its population that renovation can be for anyone and everyone, thus
Opengela is an urban regeneration project promoted by the Basque Government with the support of the European Union, based on the creation of neighborhood offices. The neighborhood offices accompany and advise the neighborhood throughout the process of rehabilitating their buildings,
During the Opengela Replication Workshop that took place on September 27th, 2022. Participants could exchange with project partners and representatives of cities and regions who came to Bilbao in the frame of the Opengela replication programme. This programme aims to
Opengela is exporting! Join the Opengela Replication Workshop to learn about the Basque One-Stop-Shop model and get inspired by the replication cities and regions that adapted this model to their needs. Opengela is exporting! The Opengela home renovation service has
Refurbished building in Txonta (Eibar) The Spanish Government is providing the Basque Country with 16.7 million euros to reinforce urban regeneration in Otxarkoaga, Txonta, as well as in Aramotz (Durango) and Basaundi Bailara (Lasarte-Oria). The European aid will make it
The deputy councillor Miguel de los Toyos and the councillor Jon Bilbao accompany the officials of the Cuban organisation on their visit to the Otxarkoaga neighbourhood and its Opengela office. The Deputy Minister for Territorial Planning and Urban Agenda of
Date: Thursday 2nd of June 2022 from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm CEST This online seminar brings together ambitious regions and already running renovation and one-stop-shop EU funded projects, to offer a complete outlook for the sector: from up-skilling, policy, implementation, examples, to future
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.
