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Green Home
Published on 29 January 2021
Italy
Calabria
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About this good practice
Green HoMe support the networking of competencies and develop value chain innovation and specialized services for sustainable construction, with a projection on external markets and the goal of creating a sustainable Mediterranean home brand. Green HoMe, Pole of Innovation for Sustainable Building, is supported by the Calabria Region thanks to POR Calabria 2014-2020 Axis I - Promotion of Research and Innovation - Specific objective 1.1 - Action 1.1.4, with the aim of developing concrete opportunities for research and innovation cooperation between national and European operators and networks. According to its statute, Green HoMe scarl is a non-profit consortium company acting as a "specialized intermediary" in the area of innovation for sustainable building, carrying out scientific and technological research, dissemination and exploitation of regional scientific and entrepreneurial resources, including scientific research infrastructures, activities for technology transfer and for the attraction and strengthening of innovative production. The shareholders do not have any preferential access to the research capacities of the consortium company, nor to the results produced by it.
Expert opinion
The good practice illustrates the role of an intermediary organisation, Green HoMe, to promote sustainable constructions in Calabria and Mediterranean countries. The intermediary organisation, which is a not-for-profit consortium that involves regional universities, private construction companies, and the public sector, aims to promote networking, knowledge diffusion, European research projects, entrepreneurial activities, technology foresight, and technology transfer in sustainable construction. The good practice highlights the importance of intermediary organisations that involve triple-helix partners to promote scientific and technological diffusion in a specialised sector in a region. Regions that aim to foster the creation of such intermediary organisations in sustainable construction could learn and be inspired from this good practice.
Works at
Interreg Europe Policy Learning Platform
Resources needed
3 years budget: 2.153.000 € funded by Calabria Region.
The Innovation Pole has a team of 4 human resources, 2 experts in the management and 2 in the technical staff.
The Innovation Pole has a team of 4 human resources, 2 experts in the management and 2 in the technical staff.
Evidence of success
In one year of activities Green HoMe achieved some results:
+80 microservices (11 technology checkup, Seminars, events, news, studies);
Structured services (3 innovation services, >20 project proposals (EU, regional);
Training (10 webinars,5 courses (73 participants - 30 free, 43 paying);
Transnational activities (Participation to 3 events and networks).
+80 microservices (11 technology checkup, Seminars, events, news, studies);
Structured services (3 innovation services, >20 project proposals (EU, regional);
Training (10 webinars,5 courses (73 participants - 30 free, 43 paying);
Transnational activities (Participation to 3 events and networks).
Potential for learning or transfer
Green HoMe selected 5 specific value chains with the aim of leveraging the potential of the Calabria region to develop globally competitive solutions, in line with the priorities identified by the regional innovation strategy.
Greenhome can be transferred in other regions where the building sector is characterized by highly energy-intensive, structurally and technologically obsolete, qualitatively degraded buildings. The current market need is therefore aimed at building redevelopment and improving the energy efficiency of existing structures.
Greenhome can be transferred in other regions where the building sector is characterized by highly energy-intensive, structurally and technologically obsolete, qualitatively degraded buildings. The current market need is therefore aimed at building redevelopment and improving the energy efficiency of existing structures.
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Organisation
Calabria region
Italy
Calabria