ESMES 
project faces the issues of growing energy demand, fossil fuel dependence and increasing CO2 emissions in the Mediterranean area. The project addresses the common challenge of fostering renewable energies and reducing energy use, with the common perspective of: adapting to Med climate conditions and finding innovative, effective ways of optimizing renovation investments. In particular, buildings have high energy consumption, causing 36% of CO2 emissions in the region and high economic costs. The intervention will involve public schools that a significant part of the building stock with a low/often unknown energy performance.
ESMES will focus on the optimization of energy consumption in schools through innovative, monitoring-based renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) pilot actions and will improve the capacity of 5 public institutions in order to implement innovative energy rehabilitations.
The project will be implemented in five Mediterranean countries, involving six organizations: ICU, leader of project, the German Jordanian University, the Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation, the National Agency for Energy Management of Tunisia, the Ribera Consortium of Valencia and the Alcamo Municipality in Italy.
ESMES is part of the ENI CBC Med Programme, the largest multilateral initiative for cross-border cooperation (CBC) in the Mediterranean area. The Programme has a budget of €209 million, is funded by the European Union under the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) and managed by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Italy).
ESMES total budget is 3,333,332.37 Euro and it is financed, for an amount of € 2,999,999.13 Euro (90%), by the European Union.
ESMES website: http://www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/esmes
