Energy Cities is coordinating the MODEL project which is one of the major outcomes of the BISE process launched in 2004 in order to help local authorities from 17 countries (New EU Member States, Western Balkans, Ukraine) to reduce the energy gap with their fellow municipalities of the EU-15.
MODEL aims at helping local authorities to become models for both the citizens and the other European municipalities. Its main objective is to improve the practical capacities of local authorities and/or local energy agencies from 10 New Member States and Croatia to better deal with intelligent energy issues at both individual (municipalities) and collective (national networks or embryos of networks) levels.