Projects
GAIA - Green Awareness in Action
Project details
- REFERENCE:
- 696029
- Start Date:
- 01/02/2016
- Finalization Date:
- 31/01/2019
Abstract
GAIA (Green Awareness In Action) is a three year long, EU-funded H2020 project made up of nine partners. This project aims to promote positive behavioural changes within communities regarding energy consumption/awareness.GAIA will create an innovative ICT ecosystem (including web-based, mobile, social and sensing elements) tailored specifically for school environments, taking into account both the users (faculty, staff, students and eventually parents through their children) and buildings (schools, universities, homes) that will motivate and support citizens’ behavioral change to achieve greater energy efficiency. GAIA’s consortium includes a mix of private and public school entities, universities and administrative buildings in the educational domain to conduct a well-designed set of trials. It also covers a wide range of important fields, aiding a structured research approach. GAIA includes partners from 5 European countries, aiming for the implementation and testing of a pan-European approach, a mix that will guarantee a better match of the constructed solutions to the actual differences in lifestyle and behaviours related to the different cultures, as well as different requirements dictated by the variance in the physical environment.
Main Objectives
The main objectives of the GAIA project are:
- Engage theEducationalCommunity Development of a Culture for Energy-Efficient Living
- Utilization of Energy-Consumption Data to Improve Efficiency of Buildings
- Educate towards Collective Use of Resources
- Competitions Across Communities
- Operation at all Levels of Education and Real-Life Validation
Target Groups
The target group of the GAIA project:
- Teachers
- Students
- Parents
- Communities
Outcomes
The project outcomes:
- 6900 students and educators reached directly during the project, and an order of magnitude, with even more after the end of the project through established dissemination networks
- sets of educational material and handbooks will be produced, available in Italian, Greek, Swedish and English
- reductions of over 15% on the energy that can be influenced by the end-users
Partners
- Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI), Greece
- Söderhamns Kommun
- Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT)
- Eurodocs AB
- Ελληνογερμανική Αγωγή
- Synelixis Solutions Ltd
- Ovos Media Consulting Gmbh
- Over Technologies
- SPARKWorks Ltd
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