When Redange envisions its resilient future
A Saturday unlike any other at the Äerdschëff
On 18 October, the Äerdschëff in Redange brought together residents, elected officials and experts to discuss a simple question: what if “smart” meant more resilient and regenerative?
In a friendly atmosphere, between citizen discussions and a pizza workshop, everyone was able to share their ideas, concerns and wishes for the future of the canton.
A method for listening and acting together
The discussions were based on the sociocratic consent method. This process involves asking clarifying questions, identifying objections, and then collectively adjusting proposals until they are ‘good enough to be tested and safe enough to be implemented.’
The result: concrete projects, driven by collective intelligence and local experience.
Conviviality as a driving force
Before diving into these workshops, the participants rolled up their sleeves: everyone prepared their own pizza in the Äerdschëff’s mobile oven.
It was a warm moment that perfectly illustrated the spirit of these forums: thinking together and sharing in a spirit of simplicity.
What now?
This forum was just the beginning; the next two forums have already been planned:
📅 18 November 2025: Citizen Expert Forum on ‘Regenerative Housing’
📅 18 December 2025: Citizen-Expert Forum on ‘Sustainable Mobility’
These successive meetings will enable us to continue our collective reflection and transform ideas into real projects that promote the ecological and social resilience of the region.
Smart City Expert-Citizen Forum: Smart Energy and Smart Resources results
Smart Energy: cooperating for greater energy efficiency and autonomy
Discussions have enabled initial ideas to be transformed into robust projects:
⚡ Inter-municipal cooperative group for energy renovation: a hybrid structure (non-profit organisation-cooperative) bringing together municipalities, tradespeople and citizens, with a users’ committee to include tenants. A rental desk will offer advice, energy efficiency kits and administrative support, while a shared dashboard will monitor projects related to the Climate Pact.
🌞 Cantonal energy hub: extension of the Beckerich and Redange E-community network, bringing together residents, businesses and municipalities in an open cooperative. The focus is on solar energy and local storage, with transparent pricing and open data.
👥 Citizen energy coaching: integrated into the inter-municipal group, in partnership with the Klima-Agence. A local branch in Redange will support households (diagnosis, action plan, practical workshops), while combating energy poverty.
🔌 Cantonal energy cooperative: supported by a governance committee bringing together elected representatives, citizens and experts, this structure manages the local production and distribution of green electricity, with transparency and data sovereignty.
🌍 Cantonal Sobriety Challenge: an inter-municipal competition using existing sensors to measure and reduce consumption in municipal buildings. Schools, associations and residents will be involved in a two-year collective effort.
Smart Resources: repair, reuse and share
In terms of resources and sustainable housing, participants came up with concrete, solidarity-based solutions:
🔧 Mobile reuse factory and bank: a mobile facility that travels between municipalities, combining tool loans, repair workshops and educational activities on self-repair and obsolescence. Linked to Repair Cafés, it offers social pricing and flows monitored via the Climate Pact.
🛠️ Inter-municipal resource centre: a non-profit organisation connected to waste collection centres, which collects, sorts, repairs and resells goods at solidarity prices. It functions as a social and educational space, with multi-stakeholder governance and a transparency charter.
🏘️ Solidarity and educational projects: renovations of public or private buildings for social purposes, carried out with reused materials. Supervised by site managers, these projects bring together residents, technical schools and local authorities.
♻️ Cantonal reuse and free market: a rotating event between municipalities, combining donations, exchanges and creativity. Run by local artisans, it includes repair workshops and mini-hackathons, with quantified monitoring of the flow of objects.
