Saves 2 Saves 2

Across Europe, Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings (SAVES 2) supports students to minimise their carbon footprint in their university and private accommodation, raising awareness about energy efficiency and smart metering and instigating good sustainability habits which last beyond the time they spend in education. SAVES 2 builds on the success of our EU Intelligent Energy Europe-funded SAVES project (2014-2017), which expanded the Student Switch Off (SSO) campaign to Cyprus, Sweden, Lithuania and Greece. The SSO campaign is an inter-dormitory energy-saving competition that focuses on a predefined set of activities, encouraging students to save energy in their university dormitories. The dormitory that saves the most energy on each campus is announced as the winner and rewarded for their efforts. Energy savings are determined by comparing pre-intervention electricity consumption with post-intervention electricity consumption in each dormitory. The initiative aims to reach 38,000 students living in dormitories across Europe every academic year between 2017-2020.