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Category DBest practice beyond U4energyTarget Group:Coordinators and winners of national publicly-funded competitionspromoting energy efficiency in schoolsThe aim of this additional competition category was to establish synergies between theEuropean U4energy competition and related national, publicly-supported initiativeswith the same mission of promoting energy effi ciency in schools.Coordinators of similar competitions at national level were invited to submitan application on behalf of their initiative and their national winner to be jointlyrecognised as best practice at European level. Various approaches and strategieswere used across Europe to educate students about energy effi ciency and ultimately,the results of this category should inspire other European countries to follow suitand establish their own national or regional energy effi ciency competition in schools.The four case studies outlined in the next few pages feature both key aspects ofnational competitions and the achievements of their own national winner within theframework of that national competition. As in other competition categories, diversityis quite striking, both in terms of fi nancial investment and governance structure ofthe national competitions and in terms of scale and focus of the winning projects.54