eTEACHER Newsletter 5

eTEACHER newsletter 5

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Welcome to the 5th edition of the eTEACHER project newsletter!

Dear reader,

The past months have been difficult and challenging and I hope that you and your beloved ones stay healthy! Despite the difficulties experienced, we didn’t stay idle, of course! Over the last months we focused on finalizing, monitoring and testing our tools in the 12 pilots’ buildings.

We’re happy to announce that the eTEACHER app is up and running, and it’s been testing by the wide variety of project users in the demo sites, including teachers, students, doctors, nurses, office staff, dwellers. I invite you to watch our video to learn how it works, it’s available in English, Spanish and Romanian.

With the app running, we launched an engagement campaign to involve users in the testing phase of our energy app.

We also had the chance to participate in the online edition of the Sustainable Places2020 conference. Together with three H2020 energy projects, we held a webinar to investigate how ICT change people’s attitude towards energy efficiency. Thanks to the joint work done for the conference, the four projects released a scientific publication to show the potential of behavioural change in saving energy, the methodologies, challenges and results achieved.

Based on the findings and the work done in the 12 pilot buildings, two more publications were released by eTEACHER partners: one report aims to investigate the potential on comfort enhancement and energy saving through behavioural change of energy users in real European buildings; the second paper focuses on the role of ICT in behavioural sciences, to empower and engage European building users for energy efficiency.

Let me thank you once again for your interest in our project and invite you to follow our social networks and to take a closer look at the latest news from the world of eTEACHER.

Enjoy your reading!

Dr. Gloria Calleja-Rodríguezo
eTEACHER coordinator

Videos

eTEACHER App: what is it?

What's the eTEACHER app? How can I use it? What's behind the app and how does it really work? The video shows the main functionalities of the eTEACHER app to help users saving energy at home, office and school. The second part of the video is dedicated to the IT brain of the app!

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Empowering Energy Education

42% of the total energy used is in households, offices and commercial buildings. However, usually users are not sufficiently consulted, trained or supported regarding energy efficiency. The scope of eTEACHER is to close the gap with a combined strategy: behavioural sciences and technical skills.

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Watch our video gallery

Join our YouTube channel for the full collection of eTEACHER videos. They can tell you more about our project and, especially, about our energy app. Most of them are available in 3 languages: English, Spanish and Romanian.

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Interview

Hints and recommendations regarding Digital Tools for Sustainable and Efficient Energy Behavioural Change

One of the daily challenges of life is, “How do I get people – including myself – to do what I want?”. It’s something the app industry has tried to tackle, and it was also one of the questions at the core of eTEACHER. Interview with the Project Coordinator: Dr. Gloria Calleja-Rodríguez from CEMOSA.

Scientific publications

Comfort Enhancement and Energy Saving through Behavioral Change of Energy Users

This scientific paper analyses several European buildings such as schools, office buildings, healthcare centres and residential buildings to quantify the potential on comfort enhancement and energy saving through behavioral change of building users towards energy efficiency.

Behavioral Change towards Energy Efficiency by Utilizing ICT Tools

Scientific paper co-written by 4 EU-funded projects to show how ICT solutions cen change users' behaviour through triggering mechanisms, informative feedback, gamification, and automation services

Empowering and Engaging European building users for energy efficiency

eTEACHER paper presents findings on how ICT-based interventions can empower building energy end-users to reduce energy consumption.

News

A different way to teach energy saving at home, work and school

eTEACHER is the app that teaches a different way to save energy, in your everyday places. It’s designed and developed 100% on users’ feedback to provide all functionalities you want in one single app.

ICT and behavioural change: an open challenge towards energy efficiency

Can ICT change people’s attitude towards energy efficiency? The answer is certainly yes. This issue was at the core of the last joint workshop held by four energy projects, during the Sustainable Places conference.

Energy transition: the state-of-the-art of clean energy competitiveness

Last October, the EU Commission released the Clean Energy Transition – Technologies and Innovations Report (CETTIR the in-depth analysis to the first annual Competitiveness Progress Report (CPR) based on the results of the Low Carbon Energy Observatory. eTEACHER was mentioned among the EU-funded projects using ICT to improve citizens behaviour towards energy efficiency.

How ICT and social sciences can empower energy education

The eTEACHER video is the results of almost three years of work from 12 partners all over Europe and the combination of different skills and knowledge. Our mascot will show you the work done, the results achieved and those expected in the future.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 768738. The information reflects only the author’s view and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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