IUSES - Intelligent Use of Energy at School, the EU-funded project lead by AREA Science Park of Trieste (Italy), has been shortlisted to be one of the three finalists for the YOUTH category of the 2012 Energy Globe Award. The prize is a prestigious international recognition, awarded since 1999 by the Austrian Energy Globe Foundation, and given every year to innovative projects focusing on sustainable energy and energy efficiency, selected among the winners of national competitions.

IUSES, which reached completion in January 2012, encouraged the intelligent use of energy sources and sustainable mobility among secondary school students and teachers in 12 countries, promoting actions addressed to energy saving and education to sustainability. IUSES, winner of the Italian national competition in June last year, has now been selected among the over 1,000 candidate projects, and is the only shortlisted Italian project in the 5 categories. IUSES will compete against projects from Indonesia and USA to be the winner of the YOUTH category.

The award ceremony will take place in the Banquet Hall of Vienna Town Hall on Thursday, September 13, from 4 to 5 p.m. The ceremony is organized in the framework of the 29^th CIRIEC International Congress (September 12-14), focusing this year on ethics and sustainability in public economic policies.

Following the success obtained by IUSES, the Italian partners (AREA Science Park and Immaginario Scientifico of Trieste) and the Slovenian partner (the Slovenski E Forum NGO of Ljubljana) have decided to launch a further initiative, together with the Universities of Ferrara (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia), embarking on the TESSI - Teaching Sustainability across Italy and Slovenia project, funded by the Italy-Slovenia territorial cooperation programme, which started recently.