OCTOPUS

🐙 OCTOPUS will bring together six regions across Europe, each with unique energy planning contexts but a common mission: to set in motion a bottom-up movement where local stakeholders influence higher levels of governance to drive a large-scale implementation of sustainable energy actions.

To do so, OCTOPUS will create and reinforce six Enabling Organisational Networks (EONs), designed to connect local stakeholders with regional governance in six participating regions:
👏 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Isère, France (In France, two interlinked networks will operate: one at the regional level in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and another at the sub-regional level in Isère. These two EONs will work together to reinforce collaboration and governance within the region.)
👏 Basque Country, Spain
👏 Extremadura, Spain
👏 Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus
👏 Mazovian Voivodeship, Poland
👏 Ústí Region, Czech Republic

These EONs will play a pivotal role in accelerating the implementation of regional energy and climate plans, ensuring that investment programmes and policymaking are informed by local needs and realities.

Through a reinforced collaboration and empowered local voices, OCTOPUS creates a domino effect, enabling our pilot regions achieve their energy and climate objectives while inspiring others to follow.

Coordinated by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Energy Environment Agency.

Co-funded by the European Union under project ID 101167717.

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