Overview of the project

Midelt is a mainly rural province located at an altitude of more than 1500 m, straddling the Middle and High Atlas mountains in Morocco, where winters are harsh and snowfalls frequent despite the Mediterranean climate. Buildings are very often not designed to ensure thermal comfort.

The study conducted on heating and thermal comfort conditions in schools in the province revealed the need to work on the energy performance of these public educational buildings (thermal insulation, bioclimatic techniques, etc.) to improve the learning environment of schoolchildren. 4°C is the lowest temperature recorded on winter mornings in some classrooms of Midelt schools. The state of these schools is a drain on the budgets of the institutions as well as the parents, who sometimes offer some resources to help purchase fuel to heat these thermal sieves.

This project promotes a territorial approach involving all the actors of the territory to conduct the following actions:

– Construction and energy retrofit: identification of at least 6 schools. Preliminary studies (audits of existing construction, thermal simulation, choice of materials, etc.), works and monitoring of results (monitoring of energy consumption and cost, and measurement of thermal comfort)

– Structuring of the sustainable buildings sector: support and training for building professionals, proposal of a financing strategy and alliances with technical and financial partners

– Awareness-raising and capacity building of territorial actors to integrate climate-energy issues into their actions. Support for the implementation of existing political and regulatory mechanisms in line with national guidelines (climate commitments, energy and education policies, etc.)

– Awareness and advocacy among the population and public authorities with the capacity-building of local associations

– Capitalization of lessons learned from the project with local stakeholders and promotion of actions at regional and national levels