<< Objectives >>The main objective is to raise awareness about green skills and professions of the future that revolve around sustainability and target the sector of tourism, eventually boosting green economy. It benefits youth entering workforce by informing them, municipal employees by training them on how to approach the topic and organize capacity building events, and creates lasting synergies between stakeholders on national level by matching NGOs and local authorities, as well as transnational synergies.<< Implementation >>The activities will cover every aspect of the project: networking with local authorities, Universities, NGOs and industry; exchange of good practices, capacity building, co-creation between participants and mentoring, policy making, research, desk analysis and dissemination. Each partner and especially the newcomers will plan and organize the activities that better match their expertise and get additionally involved in other activities with the purpose of improving their own skillset.<< Results >>-One training program on environmental protection and link to tourism-One training program on capacity building and change management at workplace targeting green skills-A learning platform to host materials, methodology-Policy recommendations, case studies, audiovisual materials-A website to host the above-Annual progress reports and a final report-A complete online training program prior to the co-creation workshops promoting blended learning-High quality dissemination materials

STEP-IN will develop a global methodology for the effective analysis and tackling of energy poverty. STEP-IN has identified three highly challenging locations with diverse characteristics across Europe including: a mountainous region in Greece, a rural area in Hungary and an urban area in the UK with low quality housing. Within each of these areas there are a range of vulnerable consumers (e.g. low income households, elderly people, single-parent households). At each of these locations a living lab will be set up which will bring together local experts and stakeholders with energy poor consumers. These labs will consist of a range of approaches including energy cafes, advisor visits and ICT systems. The ICT tools provided by STEP-IN will support consumers, advisors and local stakeholder organisations to make effective decisions. To ensure the success of the living labs STEP-IN has partnered with key local stakeholders and schemes at the chosen locations. The emphasis will be on improving the participants' quality of life through maintaining or improving comfort levels while at the same time encouraging more efficient energy usage. The energy advice provided will seek to minimize rebound effects and environmental impacts. All labs will be assessed using metrics such as energy consumption & mix, types of behavior change and levels of comfort. This will ensure that the participants benefit, while at the same time the labs’ impact can be assessed and that the global methodology is validated and can be up-scaled. This will ensure that the approaches are relevant and out with the project. The project has over 35 letters of support from organisations including regulators, MEPs, charities, energy providers, housing organisations, local authorities and Government Ministries who will take part in a stakeholder network. This will lead to the results being disseminated at local, national and EU level.