SEMANCO Project stakeholder diissemination events

This document summ arizes the work done in Task 7 .5 Project Stakeholder Dissemination Events. The purpose of this task was to hold three stakeholder events allowing for both the
dissemination and summative evaluation of the final results of the SEMANCO project.

To this end, three stakeholder workshops were held in the three stakeholder areas. In summary:

- The NEA ran a workshop containing stakeholders from the Newcastle case study area,
- FORUM ran a workshop containing stakeholders from the Manresa case study area,
- RAMBOLL ran a workshop containing stakeholde rs from the Copenhagen case study area.

The basic plan of each event was similar: t he events featured a combination of some invited keynote speakers in the area of energy efficiency with presentation s about SEMANCO and opportunities for the participants to discuss these ideas with each other.

The combined overall attendance for the three events has reached around 130 people. Each event featured a mix of attendees from companies, representatives of local authorities, universities and charities. This made the events highly valuable in terms of both disseminating the results of the SEMANCO project the events added many new members to the SEMANCO dissemination network and gain ing feedback regarding the utility of its final output. 

This feedback was gathered during the events through the use of a unified questionnaire which was localised in an appropriate manner for each event and was completed after the event by the participants. This allowed the results gathered in the different wo rkshops to be
compared and combined.

In total around 60 questionnaire results were gathered , with the overall conclusion that, while not all of the attendees would use SEMANCO themselves, there was strong agreement that the tools produced by the SEMANCO p roject had con siderable potential utility for local authorities. T hese results are presented in detail within the current document. Finally the events provided a platform the capture of videos of interviews with stakeholders and of them using the SEMANCO t ools, which will form a crucial contribution to the work on the web platform which will be created to publicise the SEMANCO platform.

In summary the events both p rovided a very useful evaluation of the outputs of the SEMANCO project by relevant stakeholde rs, and contributed to the dissemination of these results. They thus constitute a solid basis for any future exploitation activities.