Welcome to the Leadership for Energy Action and Planning (LEAP) project website. The LEAP project has been established to facilitate a network of pan-European municipalities to plan and deliver local sustainable energy solutions in line with the Covenant of Mayors. A partnership of ten organisations from seven European Union (EU) countries have come together to improve their capacity as key actors in speeding up the local uptake of sustainable energy measures and the move towards a low-carbon local economy. This is essential in order to achieve the EU's challenging energy and climate targets for 2020.
The partners include the Town and Country Planning Association, Southampton City Council and Cornwall Council in the UK; the Cities of Hannover and Hagen in Germany; the Municipalities of Kaunas District.
The LEAP project will improve local energy leadership primarily through an extensive programme of activity centred around the exchange of experience and capacity-building between 'learning' and 'experienced' LEAP partners. Click on the 'About' tab for more details.
The LEAP project was initiated in May 2011 and will run until November 2013. LEAP is co-financed by the European Union's Intelligent Energy - Europe programme, which is managed by the Executive Agency for Competiveness and Innovation.
This website will keep you up to date with all project activities and outcomes, including seminars, case studies, reports, publications and training materials.
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LEAP activities will result in several publications including partner Sustainable Energy Action Plans, high level policy statements, guidance material, workshop materials, training materials, presentations and reports. These will be made available on this website and can be found by clicking on the 'Publications' tab.
LEAP aims to build the technical and institutional capacities of all partner authorities in sustainable energy leadership and management. It will do this through a direct exchange of experience and expertise during mentoring visits, work shadowing placements, a bespoke training week in the City of Hannover, and through seminars and webinars. For more information click on the 'Training' tab.
The LEAP project partners are collaborating with other IEE projects focusing on peer-to-peer approaches in order to share relevant experience and outcomes as the projects progress. The projects include CONURBANT, ERENET and CASCADE, and more details can be found by clicking on their respective logo. Links to their project websites can also be found by clicking on the 'Links' page.
