Social Enterprises in Community
Renewable Energy
SECRE is an international project, which aims to build
a functional and collaborative scheme to preserve the
vitality of peripheries by using self-sustainable energy solutions.
SECRE in a nutshell
What is our mission?
To increase wellbeing in remote and sparsely populated areas by promoting renewable energy and self-sufficiency in energy production.
How do we do it?
We inspire individuals and communities by sharing our expertise in renewable energy production and social businesses. For your benefit we conduct research and benchmark best practices and build bridges between different stakeholders.
Why do we do it?
Fostering the economic and social development of rural areas will impact the development in the national scale.
Who benefits from it?
Renewable energy and self-sufficiency in energy production can enhance employment and social capital from both individual and community perspective. Development in the peripheral areas will reflect various forms of capital to the whole society.
Take Action: Join the
Secre Movement
The use of renewable and sustainable energy can create new businesses and help solving the local and global problems. There are various ways to enhance communities’ welfare in rural areas.
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www.commonpower.eu
Joensuu • Varkaus • Belfast • Coleraine • Galway
Rousay, Orkney Islands • Stornoway • Umeå • Sogndal • Ísafjörður
SECRE’s goal is to develop a service, consisting consultation, training and advisory components, for social enterprises in the renewable energy sector.
Target area
Northern Periphery, rural communities
Lead partner
Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
12 partner organizations from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Iceland
Duration
01.08.2011 – 31.03.2014
Budget
2.19 M€
Funded by Northern Periphery Programme