Europe is undergoing a green and digital transformation. While these shifts hold great potential, they also risk deepening existing housing inequalities if not designed and implemented inclusively.
This webinar is organised by a network of EU-funded sister projects that explore the intersecting dimensions of housing inequality – from access and affordability of housing to energy poverty and the social inclusion of migrants and marginalised communities.
The goal of the webinar is to exchange insights and share innovative practices, and foster synergies across projects committed to ensuring that the transition to climate neutrality is truly inclusive, leaving no one behind. The projects have planned to discuss housing inequality pathways, good practices and practical guidelines for migrant inclusion in the energy sector, social housing retrofits and housing access and energy rights for newcomers in Greece, and more.
Objectives
- Enhance clustering and collaboration efforts among EU-funded sister projects by exchanging emerging insights on housing inequality in Europe
- Exchange knowledge on the diverse dimensions of housing inequalities and present innovative solutions and locally emerging practices
- Advocacy and awareness raising among the target audiences, sensitisation of the audience on the housing inequalities, engaging a broader audience in the discussion
Format
The online webinar will be divided in two parts: after a short dive into each project, in-depth presentations of pilots, demos or findings will follow, concluding with a Q&A session at the end.
Participating projects
HouseInc – PREFIGURE – POWGEN – ReHousIn – SUPERSHINE – ProLight
Target audience
The webinar is aimed at but not limited to housing and inequality experts, urban planners and practitioners, civil society and advocacy groups working on the issues of housing and inequality, representatives of governments of various levels and housing providers.
Agenda
5’ Intro of the collaboration and webinar rules (Marine Perrio, IEECP)
20’ Focus on the projects
- HouseInc, Sabine Preuß, Fraunhofer ISI: Overview of the project and HouseInc’s definition of housing inequalities based on the conceptual framework and literature review.
- SUPERSHINE, Riccardo Coletta and Flaminia Rocca, APRE- Empowering communities: mitigating housing inequalities tackling energy poverty.
- ProLight, Teodoris Gkiourkas, CluBe (tbc) – Affordable housing and better quality of life – Demonstration of a smart neighbourhood approach.
- ReHousIn, Éva Gerőházi, project coordinator from Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI).
- POWGEN, Nona Galvany (Ecoserveis) / Lara Rot (ABD) / Francesco Camonita (CRPM) – Promoting the inclusion of migrant people into the renewable energy and energy rehabilitation sectors.
- Prefigure, Costanza Danovi, ICONS – Prototypes of Change for Inclusive, Affordable and Sustainable Housing.
50’ Insights and innovative practices
- HouseInc, Sabine Preuß, ISI – Systemic discrimination and housing quality: Mixed-method insights from HouseInc’s case studies in Germany and Italy.
- PREFIGURE, Haris Tsavdaroglou (UvA) – The newcomers’ right to housing and energy in refugee camps in Thessaloniki.
- POWGEN, Nona Galvany (Ecoserveis) / Lara Rot (ABD) / Francesco Camonita (CRPM) – Enhancing Inclusion and Addressing Energy Poverty and Green Transition – Focus on 15 good practices for employability in renewable sectors.
- ReHousIn, Jennifer Duyne Barenstein (ETH Zurich) – Housing inequality consequences of green policies in different European contexts.
- SUPERSHINE, Riccardo Coletta and Flaminia Rocca, APRE – From Pilots to Replication: technical, financial, and inclusive solutions for sustainable social housing.
- Prolight, Valentina Hira, Teodoris Gkiourkas, CluBe – A social housing renovation and its successful replication in Kozani, Greece.
15’ Q&A
