The EU's Sustainable Energy Award winning EnergyNeighbourhoods program - which was launched in 2011 with the support of the European Union, and then since 2013 with the support of the E.ON Hungária Group - has been encouraging people who want to save energy and green their households for the tenth time.
In the complex competition that lasts for several months, participants can reduce their energy consumption and thus their carbon footprint by organizing themselves into small communities and by changing their behavior without financial investment.
The first two training sessions to help prepare for the competition were held in Budapest in October and November for volunteer climate coordinators leading the communities. The first coordinator training took place on 16 October, where our main topics were community organizing, exploring motivations, the importance of the climate crisis and the role of small communities. The second training session was scheduled for 20 November and focused on motivating and supporting the coordinators, learning about energy saving practices and how to use the EnergyNeighbourhoods website's energy saving calculator.