Corine MeierView Presentation

Corine Meier, International Affairs & Funding Officer, National Housing Federation

Corine has worked at the Federation for the past seven years, entering the social housing sector following years of managing IT-related projects in the private sector.
She first worked in governance, providing advice to member housing associations, and managing Get on Board, the Federation board member recruitment service.
Three years ago, following David Orr's appointment as President of CECODHAS, the European Liaison Committee for Social Housing, she moved into international affairs, working on European policy, including EU procurement rules and state aid, brokering exchanges between members and associations abroad and enabling access to European funds, such as £100m of European Regional Development Funds.
She is also part of the newly formed Funding & Partnership team at the Federation and involved in helping members secure funds for energy efficiency programmes.
Corine is currently leading the Federation financing retrofitting project which aims to help housing associations draw down European Investment Bank funding to invest in energy efficiency devices and measures.

Corine is also a shared owner and resident board member of a London-based housing association.

The National Housing Federation
The National Housing Federation represents 1200 independent, not-for-profit housing associations in England and is the voice for affordable housing.
Our members provide two and a half million affordable homes for more than five million people. We support and promote the work that housing associations do and campaign for better housing and neighbourhoods.

Presentation Synopsis

EU policy on energy efficiency in housing and the EU view on how it should be paid for

• Accessing funding for energy efficiency around the EU - some feedback from CECODHAS Housing Europe Members
• Policy developments which led to this ERDF funding being made available
• Overview of the use being made in other EU Member States
• Future perspectives - EU budget and beyond
• How much money was available
• what the process was like and how we wanted to use the money
• where are we at - who's doing what and where
• examples of projects
• the JESSICA mechanisms
• the holistic approach in Wales
• the things that could be done better
• what the next round should enable us to do