A dense curriculum for town hall teams: legal, technical, financial, EU funds, citizen engagement. Romanian trainers + EU guests (REScoop, FEDARENE). 25-30 participants per edition, an intensive hybrid format.
The bootcamp is designed for the people who carry the project forward after the mayor signs - the technical director, the EU funds officer, the town hall's lawyer, the local councillor holding the environment / energy portfolio.
Understands how to size PV + storage + EMS. Can assess an integrator's offer without asking for a second opinion.
Applies to PTJ (Programul Tranziție Justă, Romania's Just Transition Programme, funded by the EU Just Transition Fund), the Modernisation Fund and LIFE on their own. Knows the scoring grids and the classic mistakes that fail at evaluation.
Understands Romania's current legal framework and the legal models in the STUP Standard. Can draft the community's statutes.
Has the technical and financial arguments to defend the project in the council, in front of the opposition and the press.
An NGO or association leader starting a community at the level of a block of flats, a neighbourhood or a village.
An engineer at a company that wants to move into the community segment - not just residential.
Five modules packed into two days. Each module = theory + a Romanian case study + a hands-on workshop. Not lectures.
Romania's current legal framework (Government Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 163/2022, OUG 59/2025, ANRE (Romania's energy regulator) Orders 9/2026 and 50/2026), REC vs CEC definitions, the 5 STUP legal models, the community's statutes, the general assembly. Workshop: we draft the statutes of a fictional community in 30 minutes.
Sizing to the real consumption profile. Choosing the inverter. The battery - when yes, when no. Smart metering. EMS and the allocation coefficient. Case study: Cooperativa de Energie + a Valea Jiului pilot.
A 10-year operating plan, tariff scenarios, reserve fund, revenue model per member. Workshop: we design the cash flow of a 50-member community.
PNRR (Romania's Recovery and Resilience Plan) C6, the Modernisation Fund, PTJ (EUR 170 million earmarked), the LIFE Programme, the Innovation Fund. How to read a call. How to write for the evaluator's grid. The mistakes that sink a good application.
How to win over 50 neighbours in a homeowners' association. The UX of monthly communication. Transparent consumption data. Resolving conflicts between members. Case studies from the European network (the Sapiens model - Spain) and Romanian examples.
A short test + a real case brought by each participant. We issue a STUP Academy certificate - recognised by ARSC and its EU partners.
The trainers are people who have already done the work - and have the scars to prove it. Nobody teaches theory they haven't applied in practice.
Lawyers specialising in energy + legal advisers who drafted the statutes of the first cooperatives.
Teams from integrators who have built real community installations - not just residential ones.
Managers from Cooperativa de Energie + guests from Sapiens (Spain) and REScoop (Belgium).
Consultants who have written winning applications for PNRR, the Modernisation Fund, LIFE.
People who started a community from scratch - the real story, mistakes included.
The European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and the Environment brings the EU institutional perspective.
For a single representative of the town hall or NGO.
Recommended - the team that implements together learns together.
For town halls that are ARSC members, depending on their annual tier.
The waiting list sets the order of priority. We'll let you know 60 days before the first edition and you'll have 14 days to confirm your place.
For a custom bootcamp (a single town, a single town hall, 5+ people) - write to [email protected].
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