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AthensCoolShare cuts energy use, CO2 emissions, and heat impact with community support. It offers profiles, resource sharing, forums, and safety tips. A pilot in Athens and Nea Ionia focuses on vulnerable residents, with expansion across Attica.
- Alleviate the impact of extreme heat events in Athens in terms of protecting the vulnerable population
- Reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions and environmental burden during high temperature periods.
- Foster community resilience and interconnectedness
- Enhance social bonds among neighbors.
- Address heat-related risks and emergencies
- Facilitate the sharing of cooling resources and heat-resistant meals.
- Promote energy-saving practices in the community.
- Provide a platform for local businesses to offer heat-resistant products or services at discounts.
- Create a trusted and verified network for community support during extreme heat.
- Disseminate educational content on heat-related risks and best practices.
This innovation addresses heatwave problems.
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– Measures to enhance the city’s capacity in protecting its vulnerable population: The AthensCoolShare platform explicitly targetsvulnerable populations by connecting community members willing to share living spaces during extreme heat events. This helpsvulnerable – or not – individuals access cooler environments, reducing health risks associated with extreme temperatures.
– Toolsto facilitate the city’s decision-making capacity: The platform provides a digital tool with features such as user profile, heatcompatibility matching, and real-time availability updates. These tools assist the city understanding the needs and preferences ofits residents during extreme heat, facilitating informed decision making to address specific challenges faced by the community.
– Measures to assess or mitigate the impact on human health and/or economic sectors: AthensCoolShare incorporates safetymeasures such as users’ reviews, emergency contact sharing, and a panic button for urgent circumstances. These features directlycontribute to assessing and mitigating the impact on human health during extreme heat events. By fostering community resilienceand reducing energy consumption, the platform indirectly helps mitigate economic impacts by creating a more sustainable andresource-efficient community response to extreme heat. Additionally, the inclusion of educational content on heat-related risks andbest practices supports overall health and well-being, both during and beyond extreme heat events.
EDEM have worked on the development of a similar innovation, like development of platforms, social cohesion network, energy section and gender perpective such as: EUMENTORSTEM, Creation of a EUropean e-platform of MENTORing and coaching for promoting migrant women in STEM (2013-2014)Women declare their active role for the protection of the Environment – the Gender perspective on the Environment’ (2012-2014)TYNET 50+: How young technological women can do network with women 50+’ (2012-2014).ALTENER ‘Women and Renewable Energy Sources – RES DISSEMINATION’, (2001-2002).INDECS ‘Potentials of Interdisciplinary Degree Courses in Engineering, Information Technology, Natural and Socio-Economic Sciences in a Changing Society’, (2001-2002).The proposed CoolShare tool will be developed on the gained experience through the past projects, adapted to the Extreme Heat needs for Athens. We are confident that we can develop this Tool within two months, so that it is fully operational before the Summer period of 2024, when it will be tested. The team will collaborate with the City of Athens to integrate features already in place in the CoolShare platform, such as the helpline or others.
Even though the specific innovation has not been tested before as such, we consider important for its success the embracement by the citizens. To this effect there is need for a clear communication of the objectives of the platform to them, which will take place in parallel with the data collection phase, through door-to-door interviews (with the X households that will participate in the pilot phase). A well structured questionnaire will be developed by our team, with an introductory section explaining what is the aim and ambition of the AthensCoolShare Platform, demonstrating the advantages of the concept. Experience from both pilot cases will be served as a useful tool for development of safety criteria and optimization of platform in order to engage vulnerable people and develop social bond with sharing economy aspects.
AthensCoolShare cuts energy use, CO2 emissions, and heat impact with community support. It offers profiles, resource sharing, forums, and safety tips. A pilot in Athens and Nea Ionia focuses on vulnerable residents, with expansion across Attica.
- Alleviate the impact of extreme heat events in Athens in terms of protecting the vulnerable population
- Reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions and environmental burden during high temperature periods.
- Foster community resilience and interconnectedness
- Enhance social bonds among neighbors.
- Address heat-related risks and emergencies
- Facilitate the sharing of cooling resources and heat-resistant meals.
- Promote energy-saving practices in the community.
- Provide a platform for local businesses to offer heat-resistant products or services at discounts.
- Create a trusted and verified network for community support during extreme heat.
- Disseminate educational content on heat-related risks and best practices.
This innovation addresses heatwave problems.
The main components of the system have been tested separately, and an initial integration exercise has been conducted.
– Measures to enhance the city’s capacity in protecting its vulnerable population: The AthensCoolShare platform explicitly targetsvulnerable populations by connecting community members willing to share living spaces during extreme heat events. This helpsvulnerable – or not – individuals access cooler environments, reducing health risks associated with extreme temperatures.
– Toolsto facilitate the city’s decision-making capacity: The platform provides a digital tool with features such as user profile, heatcompatibility matching, and real-time availability updates. These tools assist the city understanding the needs and preferences ofits residents during extreme heat, facilitating informed decision making to address specific challenges faced by the community.
– Measures to assess or mitigate the impact on human health and/or economic sectors: AthensCoolShare incorporates safetymeasures such as users’ reviews, emergency contact sharing, and a panic button for urgent circumstances. These features directlycontribute to assessing and mitigating the impact on human health during extreme heat events. By fostering community resilienceand reducing energy consumption, the platform indirectly helps mitigate economic impacts by creating a more sustainable andresource-efficient community response to extreme heat. Additionally, the inclusion of educational content on heat-related risks andbest practices supports overall health and well-being, both during and beyond extreme heat events.
EDEM have worked on the development of a similar innovation, like development of platforms, social cohesion network, energy section and gender perpective such as: EUMENTORSTEM, Creation of a EUropean e-platform of MENTORing and coaching for promoting migrant women in STEM (2013-2014)Women declare their active role for the protection of the Environment – the Gender perspective on the Environment’ (2012-2014)TYNET 50+: How young technological women can do network with women 50+’ (2012-2014).ALTENER ‘Women and Renewable Energy Sources – RES DISSEMINATION’, (2001-2002).INDECS ‘Potentials of Interdisciplinary Degree Courses in Engineering, Information Technology, Natural and Socio-Economic Sciences in a Changing Society’, (2001-2002).The proposed CoolShare tool will be developed on the gained experience through the past projects, adapted to the Extreme Heat needs for Athens. We are confident that we can develop this Tool within two months, so that it is fully operational before the Summer period of 2024, when it will be tested. The team will collaborate with the City of Athens to integrate features already in place in the CoolShare platform, such as the helpline or others.
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