The aim of the international project FeedSchools (Financing Environment and Energy Efficiency development in Schools) was to provide cities and municipalities in the countries of the Central European region with appropriate technical and financial solutions to help them renovate school buildings to the standard of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB). The project’s approach was to both create a widely applicable support tool and a web-based database of innovative best practices for renovation to the nZEB standard, and to carry out a total of 48 energy audits of school buildings, proposing renovation plans to achieve the nZEB standard.

In the Czech Republic, the project involved six schools in Ostrava and one each in Louny and Jablonec nad Nisou. For each of the schools, a standard energy audit was prepared according to the requirements of the Czech legislation and extended with a variant of achieving the parameters of a near-zero energy building.

Educational activities were also an important part of the project. As one of the final outputs, an e-learning course on energy performance of buildings and financing of energy measures was launched (available on the educational platform of the project’s lead partner, ENEA: http://formazione.enea.it/el_feedschools). In addition, training sessions on behavioural change were held in individual schools, attended by their pupils and teachers.