Pedro Palma and João Pedro Goveia participated in the first meeting of the LIFE LOCATEE (Local Authorities to Tackle Energy poverty in private multi-apartment buildings) project, held on the 7-8 Novemberin Warsaw, Poland.

The first day of the LIFE LOCATEE project kick-off meeting was a research seminar. Sergio Tirado Herrero from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid gave a presentation entitled ‘Unlocking energy efficiency for energy poverty alleviation in multi-apartment buildings’. Afterwards, representatives from each consortium member had the opportunity to share the results of their previous research on energy poverty, building renovation, and energy efficiency carried out in other projects. João Pedro Gouveia and and Pedro Palma from NOVA discussed the challenges and opportunities of diagnosing energy poverty at local, national, and European levels, focusing on the work developed in the Energy Poverty Advisory Hub and recent research work.

On the second day, the LIFE LOCATEE consortium listened to a representative of the CINEA supervising the project. This was followed by a presentation by representatives of the municipalities engaged in the project, who explained the specificities of the cities they represent. Participants of the kick-off meeting also exchanged good practices in running LIFE projects and planned the next activities.