Date: March 2025

Authors: Giulia Pizzini, Giulia Viero (IEECP), Danai Sofia Exintaveloni, Sophia Theodoropoulou (UPRC)

Contributors: All PROSPECT+ partners

Short Description: Over its four-year lifetime, the H2020 funded project PROSPECT+ supported over 200 local and regional authorities across Europe and beyond by delivering and implementing a structured peer-to-peer capacity-building programme aimed at strengthening their ability to implement sustainable energy actions included in their SECAPs using innovative financing. This report highlights the programme’s impact, lessons learned, and participants’ feedback, along with an overview of the tools, resources, and policy work developed to enable finance-ready local action.

Date: November 2024

Short Description: This handbook is your comprehensive guide to building financial readiness within sustainable energy projects, whether you are working for a local authority, an energy agency, or someone interested in navigating the complexities of project financing. It is designed to support the development of project proposals that meet the stringent requirements of financial institutions, empowering you to take meaningful steps toward securing funding for your initiatives. Thereby, you will also learn how to make use of the Finance Readiness Tool, that has been developed by the PROSPECT+ team and why it might be of relevance for your project.

Date: March 2023

Authors: Blandine Pidoux, Jana Cicmanova (Energy Cities)

Short Description: This document aims to provide useful guidelines to applicants so that cities and regions get all the information needed about the PROSPECT+ capacity-building programme. It answers questions on the PROSPECT+ application process: eligibility, selection and matching criteria, and provides further information on the modalities of participation for mentors and mentees, as well as the expected commitment.

Date: July 2022

Authors: Jen Heemann (IEECP)

Short Description: This document provides an overview of the following: (1) A comprehensive outline of the Capacity Building Programme (CBP), including description of the methods, participants roles, and steps, which will be used to inform the website’s FAQ session and as supporting text for booklets; (2) The template for the Action Plan, the main document to be used by the participants of the CBP, which includes brief explanation of each step and spaces to be filled in by the participants in order to document their projects and progress throughout the CBP.

Date: June 2022

Authors: OÖ Energiesparverband (ESV)

Short Description: The objective of the Guidance notes for the PROSPECT+ mentors is that each mentor is aware of his/her role and steps of the CBP and to contribute to the quality of the programme delivery.

Date: February 2022

Authors: Sylwia Slomiak (Eurocities)

Short Description: The aim of the Guidance notes for the PROSPECT+ facilitators is to summarise the role of the facilitators and the tools designed to ensure equally high quality of the work by all PROSPECT+ mentors and mentees.

Date: February 2022

Authors: Danai Sofia Exintaveloni (UPRC)

Short Description: This document presents the monitoring framework that will be used in PROSPECT+ to ensure the successful implementation of the capacity building programme (CBP). The monitoring guidelines present the important indicators that will be measured, the monitoring activities and tools developed, the responsible parties for the monitoring of the indicators and the metric reporting and the frequency of reporting of the monitoring outcomes.

Date: March 2025

Authors: Sophia Theodoropoulou, Danai Sofia Exintaveloni (UPRC)

Short Description: This report presents the final monitoring and evaluation results of the Capacity Building Programme (CBP) implemented under the H2020 PROSPECT+ project. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the programme’s performance across its four learning cycles, involving 290 public authorities from 27 European countries. The report details the peer-learning methodologies used, participant engagement strategies, thematic focus areas, and innovative financing schemes promoted. It combines qualitative and quantitative data to assess effectiveness, impact, and efficiency, and offers key takeaways, lessons learned, and recommendations for future capacity-building initiatives targeting local energy and climate action.

Date: May 2025

Authors: Giulia Viero (IEECP)

Contributors: Danai Sofia Exintaveloni (UPRC), Sophia Theodoropoulou (UPRC), Giulia Pizzini (IEECP)

Short Description:This report presents the inventory of sustainable energy measures from all PROSPECT+ participants, plus the robust verification methodology to outline the project's achieved impacts. The capacity building programme (CBP) continues to play a pivotal role in empowering cities and regions to fulfil their potential as key actors for Europe's clean energy transition, influencing 1120 actions from SECAPs and other local plans.

Date: December 2024

Authors: Giulia Viero (IEECP)

Contributors: Giulia Pizzini (IEECP), Sylwia Slomiak (EUROCITIES), Danai Exintaveloni (UPRC), Sophia Theodoropoulou (UPRC)

Short Description: This report presents the results of the feedback from PROSPECT+ participants, especially (internal/external) mentors and facilitators, to explore the perceived added value, challenges, and overall impact as well as replication potential of the capacity building programme (CBP). It also showcases examples derived from participant experiences of successfully implemented groups.

Date: March 2025

Authors: Danai Sofia Exintaveloni (UPRC)

Contributors: Sophia Theodoropoulou, Dimitra Tzani, Alexandros Flamos (UPRC)

Short Description: This report presents the findings of a comprehensive SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for the implementation of sustainable energy projects, carried out within the scope of the PROSPECT+ project. It brings together a mix of evidence from academic and grey literature complemented by empirical data gathered from 193 local/regional public officers, who engaged in the PROSPECT+ CBP across its four learning cycles.

Date: August 2023

Authors: Sophia Theodoropoulou (UPRC)

Short Description: This document serves as the Guidebook for Recommendation-Decision Matrix tool that was developed during the H2020 PROSPECT project and was updated in the context of the H2020 PROSPECT+ project. The tool is designed to support local and regional governments on their first decision-making steps against a wide array of innovative schemes for financing their climate and sustainability actions across 5 different sectors, public buildings, private buildings, public lighting, transportation, and cross-sectoral.

Date: January 2025

Authors: Jonathan Koenning, Carolin Anders, Carolina Borges (adelphi)

Short Description: The main purpose of this report is to present and explain the project finance readiness tool, which was initiated within the scope of Work Package 5 - Sustainable local energy planning and decision making of the PROSPECT+ project. The financial readiness tool was designed and implemented by adelphi. Furthermore, the report points out the underlying needs for the tool and the associated raison d'être. Thus, it presents the fundamental motivations that made the creation of the tool necessary in the first place as well as a detailed explanation of its functioning and the methodology behind it.

Date: January 2022

Authors: Danai Sofia Exintaveloni, Alexandros Flamos (UPRC)

Short Description: This document presents the PROSPECT+ Communication Toolkit which serves as a collection of materials (e.g., logo, templates, postcards, website, etc.) developed to establish the project’s identity and to raise awareness about the scope and activities of the project.

Date: March 2025

Authors: Sophia Theodoropoulou, Danai Sofia Exintaveloni (UPRC)

Short Description: As part of its communication strategy, the PROSPECT+ project created a set of short-format visual tools to raise awareness of its Capacity Building Programme (CBP) and foster engagement. Deliverable D7.6 presents a series of animated GIFs and postcards highlighting the mentors’ professional expertise and mentorship offers, alongside testimonials from mentees who completed the programme across its four learning cycles. These materials played a key role in the four major outreach campaigns, proving especially effective on social media in showcasing the value and impact of the PROSPECT+ CBP.