Cosme Reno – New cooperation models for SMEs to scale up deep energy efficient renovations

The project Cosme Reno is focused on promoting and advancing energy renovation efforts, particularly in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. Its primary goals include accelerating the pace and effectiveness of energy renovations, ensuring higher-quality retrofit projects, minimizing the performance gap, and implementing industrialized solutions.

Cosme Reno encompasses activities in several countries, namely France (FR), Netherlands (NL), Italy (IT), Lithuania (LT), Belgium (BE), and Germany (DE). Its aims at bridging and building on existing initiatives, including the ones of the EU transnational open-source movement “EnergieSprong” that aims at supporting price decrease of deep energy retrofit solutions, using prefab elements.

The specific objectives of Cosme Reno are as follows:

Develop better cooperation tools and create a SME tooling academy: This objective aims to enhance collaboration among SMEs involved in energy renovation projects. It involves the development of improved tools and resources to facilitate cooperation and knowledge sharing.
Activate shared investment and partnership capacities for SMEs involved in deep energy retrofit: This objective focuses on promoting shared investment and partnership opportunities for SMEs participating in deep energy retrofit projects.
Leverage new financing and warranty tools for deep energy retrofits: COSME Reno aims to explore and utilize innovative financing and warranty mechanisms specifically designed for deep energy retrofit projects.