MODEL awards
29.01.2008: MODEL is awarded by the European Commissionner,
Mr Andris Piebalgs during the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2008
A Model Awards Competition was organized in order to highlight and award the achievements of the best MODEL pilot cities. In 2008 and 2009 two editions of the contest took place and all municipalities from New Member States, particularly the 43 MODEL pilot cities were invited to participate.
MODEL Awards Competition 2009
On the 25th of February a new independent jury of the MODEL Awards gathered in Brussels for the traditional difficult job of analysing and evaluating the 21 excellent applications that were submitted in the framework of this second edition of the MODEL Award competition.
The evaluation criteria addressed the three most important issues of the MODEL common framework methodology:
Setting up and quality of the Energy Management Unit
Development and implementation of ambitious Municipal Energy Programmes / Action Plans / Investment Programmes
Organisation and quality of Municipal Intelligent Energy Days
As a result the jury decided to award the following three cities:
1st prize for the city of Dobrich in Bulgaria
2nd prize for the city of Brasov in Romania
3rd prize for the city of Velenje in Slovenia
Furthermore, the jury also decided to award a special mention to the municipality of Cankova in Slovenia in recognition of the overall quality of its commitments and achievements to tackle energy issues from the point of view of a rather small rural authority.
The Deputy Mayor of Gabrovo in Bulgaria, Mr Dobrin Savchev, who was the President of the Jury 2009 has handed over the prizes during the Award Ceremony which was part of the European Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels on 24th March 2010.
The first prize consisted in 5,000 customized thermometers to be used during the City of Dobrich’s next Municipal Intelligent Energy Day while all other awarded cities received a certificate.
Below you may download the presentation of the candidates and winners:
Presentation of all 21 candidates (.pdf1 & .pdf 2)
Presentation of the jury, evaluation criteria and winners (.pdf in English)
MODEL Awards Competition 2008
In 2008 the first edition of the MODEL Awards Competition has been organised and the competition was open in 2 categories:
the best Energy Manager/Unit,
the best Municipal Intelligent Energy Days.
On the 20th of January 2009 the independent jury of the MODEL Awards Competition gathered in Brussels for an actually quite difficult job consisting in the analysis and evaluation of 30 excellent applications that were submitted in two categories by 22 MODEL pilot cities.
As a result the jury has decided to award:
Two cities in the category of the "Best Energy Management Unit"
(9 applications received):
1st prize for the City of Koprivnice (CZ)
2nd prize for the city of Velenje (SI)
Four cities in the category of the "Best Municipal Intelligent Energy Days" (21 applications received):
1st prize for the city of Lom (BG)
2nd prize for the city of Brasov (RO)
3rd prize for the city Baia Mare (RO)
4th prize for the city of Valka (LV)
Furthermore, the jury has also decided to create a special award category for the "Best Pilot City 2008" in order to reward the city of Gabrovo (BG) and thus highlight its overall excellent work achieved so far in both categories where Gabrovo appeared to have the highest rank.
Michael Cooke who is the President of the Jury and also Councillor of Leicester City Council has handed over the prizes during the Award Ceremony which was part of the European Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels on 9th February 2009.
The first prize in each of the 3 categories consists in an invitation for two persons to attend both the Corporate Open Days that are organised in and by Kirklees on 2nd June 2009 and a study visit to Leicester on 3rd June while the other awarded cities received a certificate.
Below you may download the presentation of the winners as well as a letter sent by Mr Tomislav Donchev, the Mayor of Gabrovo awarded as best MODEL pilot city 2008.
Presentation of all candidates - Download pdf file (6 314 Kb)
Presentation of the winners - Download pdf file (4 610 Kb)
Letter from Gabrovo - Download jpg file (365 Kb)
For more detailed information about the awarded pilot cities you may contact the MODEL National Coordinators or the MODEL European Coordinator
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