Good practice:

Joint SEAP Vallesina Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan for 11 municipalities in Marche Reg

Around 60% of Italian towns are rural small towns, with lack of staff capacity, low economic resources, aged stable population and with lack of innovation – sharing common challenges with all municipalities members of the Joint SEAP Vallesina - Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan for a group of 11 municipalities from Marche Region. The joint SEAP approach fosters institutional cooperation and joint approaches among local authorities operating in the same territorial area. Comprehensive and cross-cutting SEAP offers flexibility for the signatories. Need of timely, active, transparent and inclusive stakeholder involvement for SEAP implementation. Reaching objectives of the practice Achieving more effective results in terms of energy and climate change mitigation promoting a joint approach than an isolated one, as in some circumstances opportunities for high-impact actions can be more easily identified within the administrative boundaries of an aggregation of neighbouring local authorities Main stakeholders and beneficiaries Municipalities and all relevant stakeholders involved in SEAP development and implementation (i.e. regional agencies, local business, NGO, etc.) This GP is in charge of Sviluppo Marche (SVIM) in collaboration with Consorzio Intercomunale Servizi CIS Srl (in-house providing services company and Joint SEAP technical coordinator)

Human resources used to develop the Joint SEAP: 0,75 FTE (full-time equivalent) for each year of development of the action: Feb 17 – Mar 19. The resources required to implement it is defined in the SEAP for each specific action that are ongoing and upgrading on climate adaption strategy and actions.

Public lighting in 8 municipalities (1.010,00 tCO2/a reduction): replacement of 6000 lighting fixture with LED bulbs; providing solar/photovoltaic street lights; information panels; Wi-Fi cameras; weather sensors/devices; electric vehicle charging station.
Development of the inter-municipal cycle-line at the district level.
CIS Srl, with the Polytechnic University of Ancona is testing an innovative methodology for energy audit and energy efficiency for public buildings

Challenges for creating and sharing common vision, strategies and measures between several (n.11) local governments, each one pursuing their local needs and interests.

Transfer already done within the Interreg Policy Learning Platform (2019), addressed to: 9 German-speaking municipalities of Belgium, Government of the German-speaking community.
Transfer between the EU Covenant of Mayors community (Regione Marche and Sviluppo Marche Srl are CoM Territorial Coordinators) during workshops, events and learning activities (i.e. SVIM has been selected for the EU Covenant of Mayors peer-learning programme 2021).