Public buildings take part in the save@work campaign, which aims at reducing the buildings' overall energy consumption by changing the employees' everyday practices and behaviour. To be able to measure the impact of the campaign, we conduct surveys both at the beginning and at the end of the year-long competition. The so-called pre-campaign survey was filled in by around 20 % of all employees within the participating buildings of the nine EU countries involved in the project.

Save@work is a European Union funded (H2020) initiative which helps public buildings reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions in nine countries. GreenDependent Institute is one of the partners in the international consortium coordinating the energy saving efforts of civil servants. Altogether there are 18 buildings participating in the friendly competition in Hungary with almost 1900 employees from all around the country. The competition officially started on 1 March, so GreenDependent held the Starting Event on 11 February in Budapest, where we invited the Energy Teams – groups of the most enthusiastic employees in each building – and leaders of the participating institutions.