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Since September 2023, the European BIRTUOSS project develops the Opengela model, created in a previous project (HIROSS4all, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme), and explores social, economic and environmental aspects. It also explores ways to scale up the rehabilitation of buildings to the urban regeneration of each neighbourhood.
In fact, in recent years this model, led by the Basque Government’s Department of Housing and Urban Agenda, has grown to be implemented in 25 neighbourhoods in 21 municipalities in the Basque Country and is enabling the improvement of up to 2,800 homes. And at the same time as the network of offices is being extended to municipalities throughout the autonomous community, BIRTUOSS is developing a ‘living lab’ in TorreUrizar, in Bilbao, as it is being used as a test bench to experiment with the advances of this European project.
This new video shows the current state of the works and the offices that attend to the different neighbourhoods. Over several weeks, recordings were made in TorreUrizar (Bilbao); Aramotz (Durango); Altza (San Sebastian); Trintxerpe (Pasaia); Basaundi Bailara (Lasarte-Oria); Peñucas (Abanto); Santa Teresa (Mondragón); Txonta (Eibar); Zaramaga (Vitoria-Gasteiz); Otxarkoaga (Bilbao) and Vista Alegre (Sestao).
The video has been premiered in Madrid by Ana Telleria, director of Neighbourhood Regeneration and Urban Agenda of the Basque Government, during the meeting of EU Peers, a European platform related to the Integrated Home Renovation Services (IHRS), which aims to significantly increase the rate of residential energy renovation by strengthening and expanding one-stop-shops.
Together with the Basque Government, the European project has a public-private consortium formed by the Basque Energy Agency (EVE), Bilbao Municipal Housing (VVMM), the clusters of Environment (Aclima), Construction (Build:Inn) and Knowledge and Technology (GAIA), the CAVIAR research group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), EDE Fundazioa, the cooperative Cíclica (specialist in decarbonisation strategies), as well as companies with expertise in financing (GNE Finance), communication (Gabineteseis) and European affairs (Zabala Innovation), as well as two European-level bodies such as Fedarene (European Federation of Energy and Environment Agencies and Regions) and the Spanish Sustainable Building Council (GBCe).
