Webinar: Citizen-led renovation – Barriers, Opportunities and Recommendations

Join us on 26 September 2025 (10:00–11:30 CET) for an interactive webinar that explores the key barriers and opportunities for citizen-led renovation (CLR) and discusses recommendations to scale up this community-driven approach. The workshop will explore barriers faced by CLR communities – from technical and financial to social and regulatory – and discuss recommendations to overcome them.

The program will combine insights from the CLR project and pilot experiences with case studies from Carbon Coop Community and RenoCOOP, followed by an open discussion and Q&A. This interactive exchange aims to gather input from diverse stakeholders and feed directly into the guidance document we are preparing to support and upscale CLR initiatives across Europe.

Agenda:

Welcome and Agenda (5min)

Speaker: Clemens Mayer (Joanneum Research)

Citizen-led renovation – Project introduction and overview of pilots (10min)

Speaker: Jan Bormans (Think-E)

Barriers, Opportunities and Recommendations for Citizen-led renovation (15min)

Speaker: Clemens Mayer (Joanneum Research)

Experiences from Case Studies – Carbon Coop Community (15min)

Speaker: Aldous Everard (Carbon Coop)

Experiences from Case Studies – RenoCOOP project (15min)

Speaker: Korneel Vangansbeke (Energent)

Panel Discussion and Q&A (30min)