Update Webinar on data collection via the smartphone app CAPSA.   This webinar is part of a series that shares the progress on the development of smartphone based data collection on the physical properties of buildings with EFL members. In the past months most of the ideas of the alpha testers have been implemented and the app had reached beta stage testing. Several buildings have been entered and the team is working on the next step of data deduction from the primary data entered. Following the idea of the h2020 application BRAVE the team has also been in contact with stakeholders from the finance sector and the EU taxonomy to build links to green bonds and upcoming reporting requirements.   York Ostermeyer will walk through the changes and implementations of the ideas of EFL members and alpha users as well as show some examples of buildings digitized via the app.   Robert Hall, associate director ESG, Impact and Innovation at Federated Hermes, will share his experiences with the approach and where he sees the potential for building owners and investors.

Social and affordable housing providers around Europe are dealing with rapidly changing conditions. Pressures to increase efficiency have them working in new ways, propelled by the rapid pace of prop-tech innovation. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the digitalisation of many of their organisational functions and services has sped up. Multiple aspects of housing professionals’ work and daily lives have been brought online, rapidly altering communications with colleagues, partners and tenants. Amidst hopes that our patterns of living will soon normalise, the year 2021 has many of us asking if higher levels of remote working and digital service provision are becoming the new normal. The ways in which we learn from our peers are also evolving, with virtual and hybrid models of staff exchanges and professional training being embraced as we wait to resume travel.

This 2021 edition of the Summer School for Young and Early-Career Housing Professionals will be delivered
through an interactive online platform in sessions designed to fit around other work or activities. It will bring our students into discussion with leading experts to learn about emerging practices in digitalising housing and community services to meet the needs of diverse communities, and to empower their residents to help each other. Students will work together to learn how organizational practices are changing around Europe, and to critically evaluate digital and smart home innovations by identifying the risks they pose – as well as the benefits they offer – for housing providers, tenants and communities.
Our highly interactive programme will combine lectures and discussions with small team collaborations, enabling students to learn from their international peers and establish networks despite lockdowns. Teams will research, discuss and then present recommendations for challenges relating to digital inclusion, community capacity building, smart home technology, new income streams for social housing, and remote working. With EFL and EBZ Business School’s assistance, their findings and recommendations will be collated into an international report.

The participation fee is 500,00 € per person; if employed by a company that is a member of EFL European Federation for Living, a reduced fee of 350,00 €.

Take a look at the draft programme here.