Funding: STEER – INTELLIGENT ENERGY EUROPE (IEE)Grant Agreement IEE/10/290/SI2.589420Full title: ECOSTARS EuropeAcronym: ECOSTARSProject start date: June 2011 End date: May 2014 www.ecostars-europe.eu

Funding: STEER – INTELLIGENT ENERGY EUROPE (IEE)Grant Agreement IEE/10/290/SI2.589420Full title: ECOSTARS EuropeAcronym: ECOSTARSProject start date: June 2011 End date: May 2014 www.ecostars-europe.eu

Update on WP1 & WP3

(20 minutes)

Project Management Group 4 | Parma, Italy| Presented by: Mark Fell

04/06/2012

Seven of eight local schemes have now launched! ELTIS Project of the Month – December 2012 Since June, new UK schemes have also launched in

Falkirk, Nottingham, York City and Thurrock. Coordination taking place between UK schemes through

a UK Steering Group chaired by Barnsley ECOSTARS-ZERO IEE proposal being developed as follow

up to this project

ECOSTARS news

M18 Interim Technical Implementation Report and Interim Financial Statements submitted

Postal delays – send scanned copies of everything too!

Next stage of prefinancing to be released shortly following actions between TTR, BMBC and Edinburgh

WP1: Interim Report M18

EACI Reporting – Future Deadlines

2nd Progress Report (Dec 2012 to end Aug 2013) – Partners to provide information to TTR deadline – end Aug 2013

Final Technical Implementation Report and Final Financial Statements (June 2011 – end May 14) - Partners to provide information to TTR deadline – end June 2014

Budgets, expenditure and transfers Less than 15 months of the project left We need to make sure that we maximise our collective

budget claim so make sure you do spend your budget! CDV have offered 20% of their budget to other

partners (subject to EACI agreement) - €42k Raise budget change requests for any significant

changes within your budget or to offer to other partners

Budget changes need to happen whilst there is time to get spend the money!

Remember EACI rule on budget changes

WP1: Deliverables Due M20-M27Lead Partner

Del no.

Deliverable Deadline (original / actual)

WSP D2.2 Reference Group Reports 2 M24

TTR D3.1 Third training session for technical auditors

M21 (M22)

POLIS D4.4 Project Newsletter 4 M24

POLIS D4.8 a) European level press release 2 M26

Local schemes

D4.8 b) Local scheme press release 2 M26

Local schemes

D4.10 Local newsletters 4 M25

Local schemes

D5.1 & D5.2

Annual local scheme reports (including membership report)

M24

Local schemes have 15 months of EC grant funding left

Planning for June-2014 Is your scheme a political success? Will your scheme continue? How will it be funded? Back-up plans are important too!

Considering the future

Technical Auditor Refresher Training workshop tomorrow

Auditing the auditors – sample checks are underway Any questions or requests for additional

training?

WP3: Update

September 2013, Ostrava, Czech Republic (hosts: CDV) Focus areas:

– Sustainability of local schemes after May 2014– Transferability of ECOSTARS– Evaluation and successes– Budget status and transfers– Any other suggestions from partners– Planning end of project workshop

Next Meeting

No news

WP7: Update