The aim of the overall project is to support a sustainable municipal energy policy and stabilize municipal energy costs in Eastern Europe with a software application and methodological support.The software will serve to facilitate and automate the fulfilment of increasing responsibilities for municipalities (MU) in the area of energy management (EM) and energy planning (EP), in the context of the implementation of common policies (EE Directive, 2012/27/EU).The START project will look into the current state of the implementation of ISO 50001 (only several Czech and Austrian municipalities implements ISO standard, other lacks) and energy management in municipalities across the Danube region. The project builds on an idea of bringing together European institutions (mainly from Eastern Europe), stakeholders and cities to address challenges and opportunities for the transition into an environmentally sustainable, cost-effective and energy efficient management of municipality's property as the current situation is insufficient and leads to energy wastage and high emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Expected Results: It is expected that the conducted survey and Assessment report will lead to a better understanding of municipal opinion on ISO, EM and EP across the countries and will help in future development of software application and methodological support for implementation of ISO 50001 and EP in the "overall project".The final networking workshops will serve to estbalish a consortium of eastern energy agencies, municipalities and Universities and will help in writing the project proposal at the same time.