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Sharing energy progress
Since its creation, the mission
of the Rexel Foundation focuses
on three pillars:
supporting community projects carried
out by NGOs, associations and partners
to improve access for disadvantaged
populations to energy efficiency; promoting innovative solutions and
models through an innovation and social
entrepreneurship platform that focuses
on energy efficiency; and developing knowledge and awareness
about energy efficiency by constituting a basis of shared knowledge through
studies, conferences, workshops and
applied research programs.
Promoting the inclusion of the people living in fuel poverty in Roubaix, France
More recently, in 2018, the Rexel
Foundation added a fourth pillar by
deciding to act as a solutions operator
to fight fuel poverty in Roubaix, through an unprecedented collaborative
approach which puts forward the voices
of vulnerable people. Since then,
associations and local communities,
partners and collaborators meet
regularly with inhabitants of the city
living in fuel poverty. Collaborative
workshops associating inhabitants, local
actors and experts make it possible
to reflect collectively to find solutions to get out of this situation.This initiative
was presented to fuel poverty experts
on November 28, 2019 during the 5th
Innovation Day of the Rexel Foundation,
bringing together more than 100 people.
This approach has been summarized in a
booklet and the methodology has been
documented. These documents are
available on the Rexel Foundation s
website, in open source, to strengthen
the social impact of the project and
allow it to be applied elsewhere.
Solutions have emerged from different
collaborative workshops and are
currently being implemented by the
collective. The inhabitants are still at the
heart of the system; they largely
contribute to the definition of solutions and are involved in their achievement.