18 February 2021 – Peter
By Federico Savini, University of Amsterdam, co-initiator of de Nieuwe Meent, a new housing cooperative in Amsterdam Crowdfunding is fast becoming an essential practice for many start-up cooperatives. Other than in countries with a well-established coo …
3 February 2021 – Lily Maxwell
The European Federation for Living (EFL), a European wide network of over 70 housing actors from 19 European countries, has just launched its first ever EFL Design Challenge: Affordable Community Living in Smart City Kalasatama. This Design Challenge o …
2 February 2021 – Peter
We’re delighted to announce the official launch of the EFL Academy: EFL’s new online learning environment, offering exclusive courses on housing-related topics for our members and associates. First course ‘Excellence in Working Online’ Our first course …
14 December 2020 – Peter
Thirty-five million buildings will be renovated by 2030. That is what the European Commission aims to achieve with the Renovation Wave. At the same time, this is the objective and contribution to reduce CO2 emissions in the building sector. And: to kee …
10 December 2020 – Peter
The international exhibition Project Together! on the future of living in the city is coming to Delft, the Netherlands. The Delft municipality, TU Delft, architectural firm Inbo and developer cepezedprojects organise the exhibition together at Arsenaal …
8 December 2020 – Peter
The year 2020 brought with it unexpected shocks. Until the beginning of March, all was still normal. Then, completely out of the blue, the whole world changed. COVID-19 was among us and things came to a standstill. Countries closed their borders, impos …
7 December 2020 – Peter
On 2 December 2020, Dr Anita Blessing chaired the webinar on Virtually Plastic Free Houses + Social Impact of Circular Economy. Anita is senior Academic and Network Coordinator at EFL. As an introduction of this webinar, Peter Hoogeweg (EFL) updated th …
24 November 2020 – Peter
Housing in many European countries has become unaffordable for many. In fact, it is now considered to be one of the most important national issues in Europe and its solution is proving very challenging. RE-DWELL Recent research indicate that it is nece …
12 November 2020 – Peter
Recently, the European Commission launched its Renovation Wave initiative, intending to double Europe’s renovation rate in the next ten years and contribute to making the continent carbon neutral by 2050. And this initiative is not without a reason. Eu …
9 November 2020 – Peter
We have a new EFL website and, with it, a brand spanking new member’s area! All EFL members are kindly requested to register.Registering only takes two minutes and has many benefits: Easy contact with fellow EFL members Easy access to event registrati …