EasyPro’s Third General Assembly Meeting in Cork
12th February 2026
On 4th February 2026, the EasyPro consortium met at the Tyndall Institute in Cork, Ireland, for the third General Assembly meeting. At the meeting, the EasyPro partners shared updates on their respective work packages at 18 months into the project. They also planned the next steps in making Irish universities carbon neutral via the project’s Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) facilitation service. The below blogpost by Dr Sean Travers from Carr Communications outlines the event.
The third General Assembly meeting began with a welcome and project management update from EasyPro’s coordinator, Dr Luciano De Tommasi from International Energy Research (IERC). Luciano provided updates on the procurement of EasyPro’s EPC projects at the pilot universities and highlighted the project milestones achieved. The latter included the expansion of EasyPro’s stakeholder group, which reviews the project’s results, offers feedback and shares insights in order to maximise the project’s impact.
This was followed by presentations from work package leaders. Daniel Ring from Lawler Sustainability presented updates on the design of the EasyPro solution, highlighting the project’s innovative EPC template that includes clauses that set decarbonisation targets to be achieved during the EPC. Daniel also presented an update on the project bundles and building energy assessments. IERC then discussed the project’s newest work package, that is, the financial modelling of EasyPro’s projects and investor relations. IERC explained how they are carrying out investor matchmaking between funds and projects, and how they will close financial agreements for the EasyPro project bundles. The morning session closed with planning Codema Dublin’s upcoming capacity building workshops, which will train Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and stakeholders on the EPC framework, as well as the project’s mini competitions for ESCOs that will use a Competitive Dialogue procurement procedure.
In the afternoon session, presentations from work package leaders continued. IERC discussed the sustainability, replication and exploitation of results. Among the topics of discussion included EasyPro’s plans to develop a sustainable business model to allow the replication and multiplication of the EasyPro solution in the long term. The consortium also discussed extending the EasyPro facilitation service to other higher education organisations including Educational and Training Boards, as well as the wider public sector, including local authorities and government department buildings. Dr Sean Travers from Carr Communications then shared updates on the dissemination and communication of EasyPro. Sean outlined upcoming events and social media campaigns to promote the project’s EPC facilitation service, as well as EasyPro’s engagement with Irish universities and synergies with other LIFE and EU supported actions. She also highlighted how EasyPro was one of three projects mentioned by CINEA in their news blogpost on the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) Energy Fair 2025, which speaks to the project’s goal, its clear messaging and eye-catching dissemination material.
The day closed with a summary of the current project pipeline and plans for the next steps of EasyPro’s EPC implementation. The consortium looks forward to helping Irish universities meet their 2030 Climate Action Targets and demonstrating that a standardised EPC process can be successfully implemented in the higher education sector and beyond.
