Deliverable D2.9 - Final e-SAFE engagement protocol

In e-SAFE project, Deliverable D2.9 “Final e-SAFE Engagement Protocol” focuses on the urban scale, and belongs to the Task 2.8 - Urban engagement with local platforms, being developed based on the previous Deliverable D2.3 “Preliminary e-SAFE Engagement Protocol”. At the EU scale, the EU stakeholder Forum has been set up, comprising so far 181 members and the Advisory Board with experts. The EU stakeholders are informed about the progress of the project, and the experts provide regular feedback. The EU stakeholder Forum and other EU stakeholders are engaged in providing inputs and feedback regarding EU and national policies, incentives and business models through online surveys, webinars, clustering events, workshops, and other project activities.The protocol aims to provide guidelines for stakeholders’ engagement at the urban scale, using the lessons learned during the implementation of the pilot projects in Catania, Timisoara and Bucharest and engaging with the Local Platforms created. This final version of the stakeholder engagement protocol has the goal to scale up energy and seismic renovation of buildings, using the e-SAFE system, by engaging with local stakeholders in cities located in seismic-prone areas across Europe.Deliverable D2.9 is based both on a theoretical part (literature review) and an applied part (activities carried out with the local platforms in Catania, Timisoara and Bucharest). The literature review provided an array of possible stakeholders’ engagement methods, which were presented to the stakeholders of Catania Local Platform (CLP) during the Workshop in October 2021 and later to the local platforms in Timisoara and Bucharest. The elaboration of these guidelines represented an iterative process, first based on the theoretical part, then on the lessons learnt from CLP, and finally, informed by lessons learnt from the upcoming two Local Platforms in Timisoara and Bucharest.