Here we are with 1st newsleeter issue of LiCEA project. You can find inside 3 key questions & answers about project. Project´s background, target groups, project´s partnership and crucial activities are included as well.

1. The project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF
Life Cycle based Energy Audit
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July 2013

2. Introduction
.Dear readers,
you are holding first Newsletter of the LiCEA project. Following text is
devoted to all who is interested in Energy auditing, energy efficiency within production
procesess or wants just to catch new knowledge and experiences in given field.
We firmly hope you will enjoy Newsletter from the beginnig till the end.
Newsletter provide you throught project background, Lead Partner and 2 crucial
project activities.
We are in process of building the corporate design of the project, so there will
be available project official website, about which we will inform you by next issue.
LiCEA Project Partners
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3. Newsletter´s content
3 Key Questions & answers 4
Project background 5
Project objectives / goals 5
Target groups 6
Project process 7
Benefits 7
Project partnership 8
Lead Partner - Province of Mantova 9
Crucial activities 12
Establishment of the LiCEA Guidance 14
Follow-up creation of the LiCEA Tool 15
Contacts 16
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4. What project does?
Project LiCEA develops and simplifies model of energy audits for SMEs and
their clusters, based on Life Cycle analysis, to ensure energy savings and cost reduction
along the production chain.
Why it does it?
Application of LiCEA tool to SME will identify energy saving opportunities and
thus open possibilities for reductions of energy consumptions and by that reducing
production costs and emissions. Project deals with increasing sustainability and
competitiveness of SMEs and their districts.
Why is it important?
The envisaged energy and cost reduction in industrial production means
increasing the competitiveness of the European industry, in particular of the SMEs
based in clusters and local districts.
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5. Main objectives and goals
he goal of LiCEA is to The objective is to apply a
develop, create and simplified model of the energy audit in
Tapply SMART tools a life cycle perspective towards specific
that allow the discovery of industrial sectors and related SMEs.
numerous unexploited energy Through an energy audit of the state of
saving opportunities in regional the art and created SMART tool, the
industrial clusters along the supply
LiCEA project aims to indentify and
chain of SMEs
analyze an energy inputs in SMEs and
Accompanied with the
is able to provide measures for
organizational and technical support
reducing the amount of energy input
of energy and innovation agencies and
into the system without negatively
the political framework and policy
affecting the output.
knowledge of involved institutions, a
One of the foreseen long-
cross-sector breakthrough in energy
term tangible outputs of LiCEA
efficiency can be reached, which can´t
project is at least 5% energy
be possible in one company level reduction across SMEs in Central
without the support of an envisaged Europe.
project.
Project background
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6. Target groups
roject is focusing on formal and substantial connection with
selected industrial Public Bodies ensures the
Psector districts (selected possibility to share and export the results of
SMEs with non complicated production the project, with the main aim to insert
process such as hosiery, bakery, diary, them in the public energy program, to bring
mechanical, plastic and wood industry), them to the institutional level and to
where the application and testing of promote program´s implementation as a
simplified LiCEA tool is achievable in public utility and interest.
primary phase. The connection with
industrial districts and their service centers
is strategic and basic for the project
implementation: it ensures the
involvement of a consistent number of
SMEs in the project.
The local energy Agencies and
In the end we should see the final
Business Development Centers are
beneficiaries – inhabitants / involved
involved in LiCEA project as the target
SME´s customers. They can actually benefit
group as well. The long-term objective of
from more affordable prices of
LiCEA tool is to strengthen their position
products/services provided by SMEs where
and development process. Moreover the
the application of LiCEA tool will be
project enables to gain many new
successful.
experiences in Life Cycle based Energy
auditing.
Project results and outputs will
be disseminated to local Public
administrations as policy-makers. The
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7. Project process
Benefits of the project to:
SMEs:
źCreation of simplified energy audit tool accessible for SMEs
źExecution of energy audit for 40 SMEs in selected industrial sector
źIdentification of energy use in SMEs
Energy Agencies and Business Development Centers:
źMapping of the region in field of energy efficiency within SMEs
źAccess to the developed tool
źProviding training in the field of energy audit
Public administrations:
źIncreased awareness about energy savings in the region
źInvolvement into the field of energy audits
źCreated potential for improvement of regional policies
Local survey on energy analysis
1Integration of life cycle concept and simplification of energy audit scheme
2Development of LiCEA tool („to measure is to know“)
3Testing on small sample of companies and verification of the tool
4Training for using the tool
5Testing of the developed tool on different industrial sectors in different
6regions - 240 energy audits done.
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8. Project partnership
AGIRE Energy
Management Agency
PBN Pannon Business
Network Association
EAR Energy Agency
of the Regions
NAPE National Energy
Conservation Agency
AIEC Agency for Innovation
and European Cooperation
Province of Mantova
Lead Partner
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9. Province of Mantova - Lead partner of the project
h e P r o v i n c e o f Other significant field of its
Mantova is a local operation is development of
Tpublic authority, sustainable tourism providing
situated in the south-east area of employment, training programmes
Lombardy region. It promotes a and social security for its inhabitants.
balanced development of the Mainly rural and cultural tourism has
territory, protects environmental
shown a positive trend over last years.
and cultural resources and
Tourism and cultural heritage
integrated welfare systems and
department has a competence in
social opportunities as well. The
coordinating all policies and servicesoperating area consists from 70
related to the tourist activities (e.g.municipalities.
monitoring of touristic flows in theThe challenge consists in
province of Mantova.territorial planning, promotion,
P r o v i n c e o f M a n t o v avalorisation and equilibrated
coordinates 70 municipalities in theinfrastructural development. The
manner of planning the TCCPProvince of Mantova deals with
(Territory Coordination Provincialcompetitive environment for economy
Plan) for urbanization, economicand preservation of natural and
activities, public transports, watercultural assets as well.
(rivers, lakes) and green areas.
he 1000 years old The Province aims to enhance
history of art, culture RES (the renewable energy savings)
Ta n d p o l i t i c a l within territory. To promote the use of
independence of Mantova land, has RES, it has designed the „Piano
Energetico della Provincia dileft a strong imprint of unusual
Mantova” (Energetic Plan), whichfeatures: 2 cities of Mantova and
Sabbioneta were recognized as a defines objectives, tools and results of
World Heritage by UNESCO in 2008. planned activities.
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10. Province of Mantova - Lead partner of the project
o r e o v e r , t h e Mediterranean Coasts of Spain,
Province created France, Italy and North Africa.
Mwith help of IEE Within the Province of
funds AGIRE Ltd., the local Agency Mantova is promoted start-up of the
for Intelligent management of clusters (a socio-territorial entity
renewable energy. characterized by the presence of both
Responsibility for authorizing a community of people and a
public and private installation of RES population of firms in one naturally
plants in the territory belongs to the and historically bound region). In this
Province too. context it is fundamental to support
The Province of Mantova has a the transferability of energy
10 years experience in European efficiency actions and tools (energy
projects such as INTERREG, TEN-T,
audit + life cycle assessment) from one
DG MOVE etc. and is a member of
cluster to another one in the same
EFIP (European Federation of Inland
production, but also from one
Ports) and ARCOLATINO (association
industrial specialization to another
of local public authorities along the
one.
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11. Province of Mantova - Lead partner of the project
h e P r o v i n c e o f In both cases, the Province
Mantova will work in will work with the District Offices
T2 productive districts: (Centro servizi Calza for the Hoisiery
Hoisery District which counts with destrict and Centro Tecnologico Arti
e Mestieri for the mechanicalabout 400 enterprises, most of them
district), which have the role ofSMEs, situated in the northern part of
involving the SMEs in LICEA activities,the province, and the Technological
support the LICEA team in collectingDistrict, which counts with about 100
data performing audits and finallyenterprises working on the mechanic
disseminating the LICEA outputs andsector mostly related with the
results creating consensus among theagricultural field and situated in the
associated enterprises.southern part of the province.
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District Offices cooperating
with Lead Partner

12. trategic focus of this About the state of the art,
activity is production European directives and standards
So f a g u i d a n c e about energy audit and LCA for SMEs
document on energy audit for SMEs were analyzed, together with their
considering the state of the art and national transposition: the attention of
describing the guide lines to the international institutions about
improve it also considering LCA (the
these issues is increasing strongly
Life Cycle Assessment) approach.
during the last years, but laws,
During the first months the
instruments and tools are still not well
LiCEA partners focused their attention
defined as, for example, in the field of
on the WP3 Guidance LiCEA activities,
sustainable mobility and, most of all,
analyzing the state of the art about
energy saving in buildings.
industrial energy audit and life cycle
assessment, selecting their districts,
involving the first enterprises and
exchanging information and points of
view with similar projects developers.
Crucial activities
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13. bout the application LiCEA partners have checked
of the instruments, the regional industrial reality of their
Athe delay is even territories, focusing their attention on
higher. But energy auditing is SMEs, to select the most interesting
defined as a very strategic activity to local industrial districts for the first
reduce the energy consumption and application of the LiCEA tool during
the greenhouse gases emissions:
the project. On a side, contacts with
they are mandatory for big
SMEs have been taken, building a
i n d u s t r i e s , w h i l e n a t i o n a l
LiCEA stakeholders map that includes
governments have to find and apply
SMEs interested in the LiCEA tools o l u t i o n s t o p r o m o t e i t s
development and application, but alsoperformance also in not obliged
other actors as local institutions andsmall and medium enterprises.
associations, energy experts andDirectives and standards specify
technology suppliers. More than 200that a state of the art energy audit
has to consider a life cycle costs contacts have already been insert in
analysis of products. the map, but new updates will quickly
The LiCEA tool, which increase this number.
characteristics will be defined in the
WP3 Guidance document within the
end of summer 2013, aims to fill that
gap offering an operating solution.
Crucial activities
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14. Establishment of the LiCEA Guidance
he selected districts At the end of May in Sárvár,
f o r t h e L i C E A Hungary, PBN organized a seminar
T to exchange information about theapplication during the
state of the art in energy auditproject development are: baking,
between partners of differentdairy, hosiery, mechanical, plastic
projects: the LiCEA partners metand wood processing.
similar realities, Innospirit and Erasme
projects, exchanging visions, ideas and
plans with their developers. Needs for
simplification, involvement and
training for SMEs and their staff,
increasing their independence inThe LiCEA tool will be tested
energy auditing and reducing its costsfor the first time in the hosiery cluster
are the common approaches of theof Castel Goffredo, in the Province of
projects. But the LCA perspective is aMantova, in Italy, at the beginning of
specific aspect of the LiCEA project.2014. The LiCEA partners have also
analyzed in the state of the art in
energy auditing and LCA, the situation
of the selected local districts,
describing their size, kind of
production and processes and their
past experiences about energy
auditing, saving measures and LCA
analysis. Only few attempts have been
made till now and the partners have
tried to identify limitations and barriers
that have reduced the results of those
activities, to find solutions in the
definition of the new LiCEA tool.
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15. Follow-up creation of the LiCEA Tool
trategic focus is the Works on the LiCEA tool are in
creation of draft the phase of discussing preliminary
Sversions of the LiCEA outlines for the tool among the project
tool, a smart electronic instrument experts. Ideas and suggestions have
according to the LiCEA guidance been discussed extensively during the
document (viz article about) to project meeting last month in Sárvár.
guide and to perform the simplified
The final conclusions have not been
industrial energy audit considering
reached yet, as there are many factors
the LCA approach.
requiring broader analysis, before the
An analytic tool supporting
requirements for the LiCEA tool can be
Life Cycle based Energy Audit in SMEs
specifically formulated. The
will produce quantitative results in
requirements for the LiCEA tool will be
terms of untapped potential energy
set out in the Guidance Document for
savings. The tool has to be specifically
LiCEA.
a d j u s t e d f o r s i x
industry/manufacturing sectors
(mentioned above).
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16. Prague
Bratislava
Contact us
Province of Mantova - LEAD PARTNER
Via Principe Amedeo 30, 46100 Mantova, Italy
Contact person: Roberto Grassi, roberto.grassi@provincia.mantova.it
AGIRE
Piazza Sordello, 43, 46100 Mantova, Italy
Contact person: Massimiliano Musci, musci@agirenet.it
EAR
Hans-Kudlich-Straße 2, 3830 Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria
Contact person: Markus Hödl, energieagentur@wvnet.at
PBN
32-36 Zanati Rd., H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary
Contact person: Adrienn Németh, adrienn.nemeth@pbn.hu
NAPE
Swietokrzyska 20, 00-002 Warsaw, Poland
Contact person: Andrzej Rajkiewicz, arajkiewicz@nape.pl
AIEC
Jelačičova 8, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovakia
Contact person: Tina Igličar, tina.iglicar@aiec-ngo.eu
www.licea.eu
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