The European Commission invites EU country authorities, experts and stakeholders to exchange on the implementation of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) and to discover how LIFE projects are providing policy support and practical tools to facilitate national rollouts.
Following the 2024 EPBD recast, the SRI remains an optional scheme under EU law (Article 15) until the Commission submits a report by 30 June 2026 on the outcomes of national test phases. More details on the legal and technical framework are available online.
This high-level event will
- present the current state of play of SRI implementation across the EU
- showcase concrete Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) implementation support provided to EU countries by LIFE projects, including tools for SRI audits, test phase design and integration with Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)
- share national experiences from test phases in Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Italy
- discuss the costs and benefits of SRI for buildings, energy systems and competitiveness
- explore the way forward towards an SRI/EPC cluster, aligning building assessment tools with EU policy objectives
Target audience: representatives of national ministries and agencies responsible for EPBD transposition, the building and energy sectors, LIFE project partners, building auditors, industry stakeholders, and the research community.
This 4th SRI Joint Event is co-organised by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) and the LIFE projects easySRI, SmartSquare, SRI2MARKET, and tunES with participation from sister projects such as DATAWiSE, EPBD.wise, EVELIXIA, iEPB, SmarterEPC, openBEP4EU,OBSERVE.
The event is hybrid, with in-person attendance limited to 100 participants.
Book your seat, 1 week left to register, registration will end on Tuesday 21 October 2025, 23:59 (CEST)
Agenda
08:30 – 09:30 Welcome coffee registration
09:30 – 10:00 Opening session moderated by Pierre-Antoine Vernon, CINEA, European Commission
- Welcome and opening – Hans Rhein, CINEA, European Commission (10 min.)Policy context – Serena Pontoglio, DG Energy, European Commission (10 min.)Overview of SRI implementation and contribution of LIFE projects – Christina Protopapadaki, SRI Support Team (10 min.)
- SRI test phase: easySRI audit tool and SRI audits – Paraskevas Koukaras, CERTH (30 min.)
- How the national test phase benefited from the project – Greek public authority (5 min.)
- The project’s support was instrumental to the Spanish test phase – Guadalupe Gómez Ruiz, IDAE (5 min.)
11:50 – 12:50 Panel discussion moderated by Sophie Dourlens-Quaranta, SRI Support Team
- Costs & benefits: building energy costs, energy grid, EU competitiveness (60 min.)
- Bunthan Iea, DG Energy, European CommissionBonnie Brook, SRI Platform WG3 / CEN TC 247 / eu.bacParaskevas Koukaras, CERTH / easySRIParis A. Fokaides, Euphyia Tech / Frederick University / SmartSquareDimitris Athanasiou, IEECP / SRI2MARKET
14:00 – 15:10 Auditing schemes and EPC & SRI integration moderated by Andrei V. Litiu, EPB Center
- Integrated SRI auditing solution: SmartSquare auditing scheme and standardisation – Paris A. Fokaides, Euphyia Tech / Frederick University (30 min.)
- Cyprus testing phase linked to SmartSquare – Cypriot public authority (5 min.)
- How the project supported the SRI test phase in Italy – Luca La Notte, ENEA (5 min.)
o Panel discussion on integration with existing building auditing frameworks (60 min.)
- Bunthan Iea, DG Energy, European CommissionEU country representative TBCAndrei V. Litiu, EPB Center / iEPBAndré van Delft, Demo Consultants / SmarterEPCTatiana Novikova, empirica / tunES
o Conclusions and way forward on SRI and EPC implementation
- Pierre-Antoine Vernon, CINEA, European CommissionBunthan Iea, DG Energy, European Commission
