ENVE works in fields related to the European Green Deal, which include the environment biodiversity, circular economy, zero pollution, climate change, energy, and space policies.
The Showroom for Energy and Environment is a municipal centre dedicated to education and information on sustainable energy and waste, working for schools, professionals and citizens with the objective to address the city towards energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy sources and the reduction and correct management of waste.
The Energy and Environment Showroom is an exhibition space of over 250m 2 on efficient energy technologies and a centre for information and dissemination aimed at schools, citizens and operators in the sector.
Opened in 2003 in the framework of the implementation of the "Urban CO 2 reduction" Municipal Energy Plan of 1999 and developed as part of the 2007 Municipal Energy Programme, with funding from the Ministry of the Environment and the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna Region, it has been visited by over 15 000 students and several hundred citizens.
The showroom works under the framework and in collaboration with the multi-centre for the education to sustainability of the Municipality of Bologna, which is part of the network of centres for sustainability of the Region Emilia-Romagna. The multi-centre focuses on various environmental issues, in particular on nature, quality of life in the cities and sustainable lifestyles; actions dealing with nature are implemented by the Foundation Villa Ghigi – that has a long tradition in developing actions for citizens and schools – while actions dealing with quality of life in the city and sustainable lifestyles are directly implemented by the Showroom.
