Green Deal ARV: creating Climate Positive Circular Communities in Europe
ARV is an Innovation Action that has received funding under the Green Deal Call LC-GD-4-1-2020 - Building andrenovating in an energy and resource efficient way. Running until December 2025, it aims to boost the building renovation rate and enable rapid and wide-scale deployment of Climate Positive Circular Communities around Europe.
The ARV project intends to demonstrate and validate attractive, resilient and affordable solutions that significantly speed up deep energy renovations in four different climate zones in Europe and the deployment of energy and climate measures in the construction and energy industries.
Its goal is Climate Positive Circular Communities (CPCCs), meaning an urban area which aims to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and enable energy flexibility, and promotes the circular economy and social sustainability. This concept focuses strongly on the interaction of and integration between new and regenerated buildings, users and energy systems, facilitated by ICT to provide attractive, resilient and affordable solutions for individuals.
The ARV project has a specific approach, using a combination of three conceptual pillars (circularity, simplicity and integration), six demonstration projects (in Czechia, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain) and nine thematic focus areas (including a replicable planning framework for efficient design and successful implementation of CPCCs).
- The overall aim of the ARV project is to boost the building renovation rate and to enable rapid and wide-scale deployment of CPCCs around Europe. It will facilitate fast market uptake and cost-efficient replication of the CPCC concept, and thus significantly contribute to the full decarbonisation of Europe by 2050.
- The publications related to the project are available in a library.
- ARV has produced the encyclopenergy, a contributor-based repository of worldwide financing solutions, business models and policy and regulatory frameworks which enable, empower and scale up energy efficiency in the real-estate industry. It aims to provide a free knowledge network of enablers to support the scaling of decarbonisation pathways for the global built environment.