Report on workshops and the selected cases for ISABEL replication and expansion

During its “last-mile”, ISABEL aspires to achieve a replication of its community biogas concept and approach through a knowledge expansion to additional regions of Europe. This is realized through a two-step process. On the one hand, the project aimed to organize international events with a view to share its knowledge and identify the suitable European regions where its concept could be transferred. On the other hand, this process entails the provision of support to the identified regions.

The workshops’ main objective was to create awareness on Social Innovation and Community biogas concepts, methodologies and interventions, share experiences and lessons learned, and eventually trigger the up-take of the ISABEL approach and assets in other regions at national (i.e. within Germany, UK, Greece) and/or European level. Overall, through these events ISABEL sought to identify highly motivated stakeholders from regions different than the ones that have already been identified by ISABEL in the frame of the project and select the 3 most interesting and promising cases to be supported during the next months.

Overall, ISABEL was successful in reaching out to stakeholders from 7 different regions and 5 additional to ISABEL countries, and in sharing its experience and expertise with local stakeholders. Through these activities the project identified 3 additional and very promising cases where the ISABEL concept and approach will be transferred, initially through respective support activities offered by the regional partners until the end of the project.

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