More than 120 millions Europeans live in 35 million social housing dwellings. This represents around 18% of the total final energy consumption in the EU.
The improvement of energy performance in social housing can only be achieved through progressive retrofitting of the existing housing stock. Most European countries have experimented innovations in the legislation of social housing and in the professional practices of the social housing operators (SHO’s).  Nevertheless, there remain obstacles to an efficient management of energy in social housing. Professional unions of SHO's are willing to research the solutions existing in other EU countries and to work on the transfer and the development of new institutional frameworks for the management of energy in social housing.

The TACKOBST proposal, led by a consortium of  professional unions of SHOs' from 4 countries, aims at developing  proposals and methodologies which could help the main  stakeholders (State, local authorities, associations of occupiers, energy suppliers) to withdraw these obstacles and enable SHO’s to implement energy efficient retrofitting.
The results of the project will contribute to build competence and knowledge on energy efficient retrofitting among European social housing operators

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