AURORA D4.1 Report on Civic Local Roadmaps

The Grant Agreement describes that depending on the needs by the participants for improving the community habits,
the energy communities will prepare a roadmap on the local authority actions requested to facilitate citizens’
behavioural changes and encourage a more sustainable energy local environment. Such roadmaps may be informed
by a wide range of community and public engagement activities, including where applicable, thermo-photography
contests or events, and carbon-sequestration games.
Since the start of the project, effective engagement has taken place in the five areas with both student and municipality
based communities. None-sustainable situations in the local environment have been monitored and reported and
information and data gained about priorities for action. This deliverable describes the comprehensive work carried out
by AURORA partners and a separate roadmap has either been produced or will shortly be produced for each of the
areas. The purpose of these roadmaps / sustainability plans / energy action plans / priorities / strategies is to help local
authorities (within universities and local districts) to progress actions within their local decarbonisation plans.
Each roadmap will be unique and tailored to each area and will potentially be a call to action for our energy communities’
recommendations to be taken into account and be acted upon. It may be that a roadmap asks for ideas to be
incorporated into local authority plans and strategies, invest resources in something or support something. By
presenting these roadmaps there could potentially be stronger and closer working relationships between the energy
communities and the local authorities, and increased progress could be made in reaching net zero / becoming carbon
neutral by 2030 or 2050 (dependant on local commitments).