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The pilot action “Awards for inclusive energy communities – Recognising outstanding efforts to mainstream inclusivity in energy communities” encourages collaboration, knowledge exchange, and learning among energy communities. ACCTING recognizes and celebrates inclusive and innovative approaches that inspire others to adopt similar practices and principles. The objective is also to showcase and amplify the successes of best-practice energy communities, gaining media attention and serving as role models for other initiatives in the field. The fund will contribute to the growth and development of inclusive energy communities, driving the transition to a more sustainable and equitable energy future.

The pilot action “Next time better and more inclusive” – Engaging local communities to ensure improved disaster responses aims to facilitate participants in co-creating a scenario for managing a disaster using a bottom-up approach that involves all stakeholders, including citizens. The goal is to inform and induce behavioral change among actors from local communities as well as authorities. This pilot project will be implemented in a region that has recently experienced a sudden disaster. The objective is to reduce the risk of similar disasters in the future and improve disaster preparedness.

ACCTING is launching a call to local authorities, non-profit organisations and collective representation bodies working in the areas of energy, mobility, food, disaster management or biodiversity, to implement a pilot project with potential to reduce or prevent inequalities and negative impacts of the Green Deal on poorer, marginalised and vulnerable groups.

The plus in gender+ is an invitation to be curious about the complex ways in which gender dynamically interacts with “race,” class, sexuality, (dis)ability, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship status (among others), in shaping human lives and inequalities in contemporary society.

Rapid urbanisation is one of the greatest challenges affecting global development efforts toward sustainable development goals. Such goals include agri-food systems that are locally available, healthy, safe, as well as physically and economic accessible to all urban dwellers with the least environmental impact.

Bottom-up usually refers to citizen-led activities where citizens collaborate and themselves keep control of the aims, the means, and the actual implementation of their activities.

Circular economy refers to a system that encourages the reuse, recycling and refurbishment of products and materials such that there is minimum use of primary resources. The aim is to establish environmentally friendly production and consumption behaviour by minimising waste generation.

Transport poverty refers to the ways in which socioeconomic conditions affect everyday mobility and people’s access to transport. If someone is transport poor, it means that a person lacks mobility recourses to access work, education, health, and social networks.