{"id":131,"date":"2016-01-29T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enero.ro\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:49:53","slug":"start2act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/?page_id=131","title":{"rendered":"START2ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Engaging European Start-ups and Young SMEs for Action for Sustainable Energy (acronym <a href=\"http:\/\/www.start2act.eu\">START2ACT<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">START2ACT aims to reduce residential energy consumption in the EU via changing the behaviour of consumers in their\u00a0everyday lives by approaching them at their workplace. With a focus on European start-ups and young SMEs, the project\u00a0aims at triggering action by young entrepreneurs and their emerging enterprises as well as by the owners and staff of young\u00a0SMEs to introduce energy efficiency measures within their daily routines.<\/p>\n<p>A key area of intervention to increase energy efficiency through behavioural change is office equipment, the fastest growing\u00a0energy user in the business world, consuming 15% of the total electricity used in offices, which is expected to rise to 30% by\u00a02020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">START2ACT aims to trigger the use and uptake of the many available tools and solutions offering a great potential for\u00a0energy and money savings, yet not adequately used due to lack of understanding of how to use them in practice and due to\u00a0insufficient engagement of people towards changing behaviour in everyday life. START2ACT aims also to trigger sustainable\u00a0procurement of office equipment, including the selection and furnishings of premises (HVAC, lighting, etc.), and goods and\u00a0services. In so doing, START2ACT will sow the seeds of a sustainable energy culture in start-ups and young SMEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engaging European Start-ups and Young SMEs for Action for Sustainable Energy (acronym START2ACT) START2ACT aims to reduce residential energy consumption in the EU via changing the behaviour of consumers in their\u00a0everyday lives by approaching them at their workplace. With a focus on European start-ups and young SMEs, the project\u00a0aims at triggering action by young entrepreneurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/252"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enero.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}