Date of publication: 24 July 2025

Ana Stojilovska, Senior Research Fellow at our Institute, won a new project titled Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions (LIGHT) funded by the European Climate Foundation. The project aims to empower trusted local actors to co-create structural solutions for affordable, low-carbon housing through shared learning and practices in Hungary.

Specific objectives include: 

1) Deepen the collaboration with trusted local actors representing or working closely with vulnerable groups to energy vulnerability and the energy transition, especially Roma, single parents, and migrants, to better understand their needs regarding housing and heating decarbonization.

2) Support the trusted local actors to co-develop together with vulnerable groups low-cost, low-carbon solutions and practices to deal with housing and energy vulnerability.

3) Collect the co-created local community knowledge of dealing with pressing energy and housing vulnerability challenges to facilitate EED and EPBD implementation, to be reflected in relevant EU or national debates on housing or decarbonization.

The project will be 11 months long, and implemented in cohesion with other ongoing projects on energy poverty, such as WISE and Hungary in the energy crisis.