New GreenLight Tips and tricks for future coordinators

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New GreenLightTips and tricks for future
coordinators

• Juraj Krivosik
• SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center, Prague

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New GreenLight Project

• GreenLight is a voluntary European marketing
  programme motivating to adopt energy-efficient
  lighting measures
• Note SEVEn is both a co-ordinator and a
  co-beneficiary of several EIE projects knowing
  the issue from both sides.

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What should future coordinator pay attention to?

• Content of the project
• Appropriate consortium members
• Communication and promotion (with project
  partners, with EACI, public)
• Motivation to partners

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The content must be CRYSTAL CLEAR

• Preferably already at the time of writing up the
  proposal
• Need to understand the content of the project in
  detail
• In order to avoid discussions on what to do after
  the beginning or during the project

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Consortium

• Should be suitable and competent regarding the
  given project
• Therefore, try to choose partners, who
• are interested in the topic
• proved their organizational skills
• are reliable

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Regular communication with partners

• Questions should be answered swiftly
• Tasks to be defined clearly to avoid confusion
• Send out reminders on upcoming deadlines
• Regularly and
• well in advance (very important!)

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The role of the co-ordinator

• 1) To ensure that his/her country is the best in
  the consortium
• 2) To connect and motivate all project partners

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Project meetings

• IMPORTANT WAY TO IMPROVE COOPERATION AND
  INITIATIVES
• For this, the following is needed
• Clear definition of tasks
• Clear set up of schedule and deadlines
• Tasks understood by all partners

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Common excuses

• External cause Small country
• Internal cause Out of office for two weeks
• BUT Proper communication and advance
  notification on upcoming events/deliverables/deadl
  ines from the side of coordinator!

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Communication with EACI

• Regular, continuous, but also meaningful and to
  the point
• Be specific and concrete
• Inform on problems/difficulties (do not try to
  hide these)
• But also on success stories (do not hide these
  either)

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Motivating project partners

• Be positive attention to the realized savings
• In the spirit of the contract (do know the
  conditions and EACI rules!)

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Promotion

• Different types of promotion to different types
  of target groups
• Coverage in media (all types)
• Target group of the project (special events,
  specialized journals)
• In seminars and deliverables
• it is advisable to get interested parties on
  board
• Possible cooperation, co-financing
• Promotion to broader public

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Reward
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Thank you for your attention.

• Contact
• SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center
• Juraj Krivosik
• E-Mail juraj.krivosik_at_svn.cz
• Web www.svn.cz
• www.eu-greenlight.org