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ROSH · About ROSH
ROSH – Retrofitting of Social Housing – is a European co-operation project for the development and marketing of integrated concepts for energy efficient and sustainable retrofitting of social housing.
In this project the term “social housing” is preferred, although different synonyms are used broadly (public housing, council housing, social public homes, habitation à loyer modéré and so forth). Our definition: Social housing is housing where the access is controlled by the existence of allocation rules favouring households that have difficulties in finding accommodation in the market. For ROSH, only multi-family houses or apartment buildings are in focus.
The instruments of ROSH are information, training and communication measures. Interested institutions are provided with helpful tools and materials to support their sustainable retrofitting activities. At the centre of ROSH are activities directed at those providing social housing and at the tenants. But the further relevant stakeholders of authorities (subsidy schemes), energy service companies (ESCOs) and planners are included as well.
ROSH aims at developing guidelines for sustainable retrofitting and financing schemes. Demonstration projects will be used to verify these concepts.
ROSH is funded by the European Commission’s Intelligent Energy Europe programme and will cover the period from January 2006 till June 2008. Twelve partners from six European countries are involved, the coordinator being target GmbH in Hanover, Germany.
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