SHINE focuses on district renovations with a bottom-up approach. Since the start of the SHINE project a lot has been done. In order to set up a participation process in districts to lower the threshold for district renovations a support base has been created. Therefore partners have organised inspiring study trips and a lot of meetings with stakeholders (515). So far a volunteer network of 147 energy experts have been established to guide the families of the district in saving energy. So far 1577 residents have received energy advice. Furthermore 206 smart meters and 395 monitoring systems were installed to help the families reduce energy and 777 energy kits with energy savers were handed out. At the end of SHINE the project can disseminate a method with different kind of tools with an instruction of which tools work the best in which kind of district.

The SHINE project has also been busy with developing a method to guide renovations in a district approach. Therefore 414 energy audits and self-scans were carried out and based on these group purchases of energy saving measures and renewable energy were provided. As well during the design phase, as during the renovation 158 owners were guided with assistant meetings by professional experts in order to guide them to renovate as close as possible to Nearly-Zero-Energy level.

Except for the local residents, the local building professionals are a second important target group in the SHINE project. In order to accelerate the quick uptake of building innovations by local building professionals the SHINE partners has been working on a joint method to identify the needs of this target group. Based on a few analyses so far 22 local and 2 cross-border networking moments have been organised. These will help us to develop a method to identify the needs of the local building professionals.

Furthermore the SHINE partners have been implementing energy efficient district renovations of their own housing stock. So far 470 dwellings have been renovated.