When DEESME2050 partners engaged 80 representatives of the furniture sector in their trainings on the Multiple Benefits approach to energy management, some learnings did not come as a great surprise: not only most of the participants (66%) declared a strong willingness to use the Multiple Benefits methodology, also 70% believed that significant savings could be achieved through it.
However, there was a great knowledge gap urging to be addressed. Among the diverse group of stakeholders (which included business owners, managers, and technical and financial specialists), more than half (61%) were unfamiliar with the concept of Multiple Benefits and 93% had never implemented it, despite the potential to generate benefits beyond energy savings.
The DEESME2050 training was designed to address this knowledge gap, combining educational sessions with practical audits to promote the transformation of knowledge into practical implementation. The results of the sessions – including learnings from participant surveys – can be explored in the project’s latest deliverable, available in the project webpage.
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