Mediterranean Development of Support Schemes for Solar Initiatives and Renewable Energies (http://www.med-desire.eu). Giuseppe Creanza, ARTI, Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation

1. The 5th Project Meeting
Meeting agenda and objectives
Management and coordination issues
Giuseppe Creanza - ARTI-Regione Puglia

2. Meeting objectives
• Sharing any issue related to WP2 communication activities
• Sharing ideas about WP3 “Capitalization of project results” and
WP7 “Awareness raising campaign” and planning the first actions
to be implemented
• Sharing the results of WP5 technical mission in Egypt and the
status of elaboration/planning of feasibility studies for
certification labs and of training for technicians and installers
• Sharing the progress of WP6 activities and planning next steps
• Assessing the progress of Interim Report preparation and any
other management and financial issue

3. STC meeting agenda

4. STC meeting agenda

5. Assessing project progress

6. Main criticalities
• Process of preparation of Interim Report is proceeding slowly:
most of the TODOs agreed in Beirut are still pending
Main achievements
• WP5 activities received a strong push after Beirut meeting
• WP6 consolidated 6.1.a report on benchmarking of financial
support mechanisms and started 6.1.b activities

7. Main challenges
• Improve forecasting of expenses and individuate needed
(major) budget changes
• Carefully plan and organize WP3 capitalization and WP7
awareness raising activities, in order to reach the stated quality
and numerical targets
• Start organizing WP5 and WP6 training activities (topics, target,
location, date) in order to avoid implementation delays and
reach the stated result indicators

8. Indications from ROM monitoring
• Organize a collective and structured discussion among partners
about the possible improvements and changes needed by the
project (activities, objectives, indicators, target groups...).
• Organize awareness raising activities as a progression of
different actions targeting specific target groups and topics.
• Try to draw the attention of decision makers on the project (e.g.
governmental levels dealing with the issues targeted by the
project).
• Improve the synergy with the other solar and energy efficiency
ENPI projects.

9. Main challenges
Indicator Target
Number of targets reached by WP3 and WP7 7 central institutions (50 people)
30 local institutions (200 people)
500 SMEs
10.000 people
Number of participants to dissemination
activities at local level (WP7)
1.000 people (min 30% public sector
& 40% private sector)
Increase in positive perception of solar
technologies benefits (WP7)
30% increase (2.500 contacts)
Number of business agreements between
project stakeholders (WP3)
3 agreements

10. Main challenges
Indicator Target
Number of capacity building seminars on certification (WP5) 3 seminars (30 people)
Number of training initiatives on solar technologies (WP5) 4 initiatives (40 people)
Number of web downloads of training material on
certification and technologies (WP5)
150 downloads
Number of financial and market stimulus instruments (WP6) 6 instruments
Number of training initiatives on financial instruments (WP6) 3 initiatives (30 people)
Number of training initiatives on solar ordinances (WP6) 3 initiatives (30 people)

11. Next meetings
Type of meeting Location and date Notes
SC#5, TSC#6 Alexandria – February 2015
TSC#7 Beirut – May 2015
SC#6, TSC#8, Capitalization#2 Alexandria – September 2015
TSC#9, Final Event Tunis – December 2015

12. Management and coordination issues
PMR#7 needs to be completed on time and with reliable data and
forecasts
Report Applicant MATTM ENEA AAE IAT CIEMAT ANME LCEC NREA
PMR #5 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
PMR #6 ✔ ✔ ✔  ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
✔ Done
✗ Not done
 Needs revision