The European Solar Days are a Europe-wide campaign to promote the use of solar energy for production of electricity, heating and cooling. What once started in 2002 in Austria as ‘Day of the Sun’, is now a multi-country effort of thousands of local events with organisers ranging from solar equipment manufacturers, to church communities and local governments. In 2008, the initiative was taken to the European level and the first European Solar Days took place in 13 European countries with over 4.000 events.

The second edition of the European Solar Days took place on 15-22 May 2009 in 16 countries. Over half a million citizens participated in more than 7000 events in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The 2010 campaign will be from 1 to 16 May and hopefully, in a few years, the European Solar Days will be celebrated all over Europe.

Any stakeholder in the solar sector is invited to initiate events that promote the use of solar energy. On the Solar Days website (www.solardays.eu) contacts for each participating country are shown.

The European Solar Days are coordinated by ESTIF in close co-operation with EPIA and supported by 24 organisations at a national and European level.

Further Information on the European Solar Days is available at: www.solardays.eu

The European Solar Days are a proud partner of the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign: www.sustenergy.org