Impressions from the PLEEC partner meeting in Turku

Read here a short report about these enriching days in Finland..

The PLEEC partner meeting took place from 25 to 28 march 2014 - starting on Tuesday afternoon with the Executive Board Meeting of all Work Package leaders.

The whole PLEEC partner consortium came together on Wednesday morning in Logomo – an event venue transformed from an old railway workshop.

The morning session of this day was open for the public and included inspiring speeches about PLEEC project, energy efficient cities, smart people and the way towards an energy efficient future. U.S. Ambassador to Finland H.E. Bruce Oreck put the importance of PLEEC project in a nutshell: "It´s all about the cities" - energy efficiency has to be realized in the cities in order to guarantee an energy efficient future.

The wednesday afternoon was dedicated to internal PLEEC sessions: In three workshops, each treating one separate Work Package, we gathered and discussed energy efficiency projects and ideas from the technological, structural and behavioral point of view. In these workshops we generated important substance for the project progress.  

Besides the theoretical work thursday morning offered the opportunity to have a glance into what happens in practice: We visited an energy efficient shopping centre, a biogas plant as well as an old factory which was renovated to an energy efficient office building. 

Recovered with some fresh air, we continued exchanging ideas and knowledge during the workshops in the afternoon. 

Finally, the last evening concluded with a reception at the Turku City Hall where we could go on with our discussions in informal atmosphere. 

The last day was dedicated to wrapping up and drawing conclusiongs on what was elaborated the days before. After a final joint lunch it was time to say goodbye and all partners headed back to their home countries.

We are very satisfied with the course and the results of this meeting and we are looking forward to the next partner meeting in another great member city of our project. At this point we would also like to say thanks to our great organizers in Turku for hosting us these days – it was a pleasure!

All the presentations of the meeting in Turku can be downloaded at: http://pleecproject.eu/news/30-pleec-partner-meeting-turku-2014.html