The use of renewable energy and digital technologies in the building sector is heavily emphasized in the relevant EU Directives and Regulations. These technologies have an important role to play to help meet the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, to achieve a fully decarbonised building stock by 2050, as well as to address the energy crisis in Europe.

       Given that background, the NS4nZEBs project aims to tackle existing mismatches between the skills currently characterising the energy performance and the ones increasingly in demand and indispensable in the future, to increase the number of skilled building professionals in the fields of PVs, smart electrical systems, heat pumps and hydrogen technologies in buildings at all levels of the building design, operation and maintenance. This will lead to an increased application of new energy efficient and renewable energy technologies for the successful uptake of (nearly) Zero Energy Buildings, the upscaling of ambitious renovation interventions, the roll-out of efficient renewable-based heating and cooling, in particular heat pumps, thus contributing to phasing out EU dependence on fossil fuels imports.

       The consortium is a partnership of excellence, with experts (installers, engineers, architects, experts in IT, automation, education and communications) from 6 countries, namely Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Ukraine.