IncoNet EaP Grant to facilitate Eastern Partnership Participation in the ener2i Brokerage Event
IncoNet EaP supports you to take part in the ener2i Brokerage Event, which will be organised back to back with the European Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels to suppoprt EU-European Neighbourhood cooperation and knowledge transfer. The Brokerage Event will target representatives from companies, higher education and research institutions and politics from the EU and Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Moldova. The aim is to create partnerships for Horizon2020 calls and other funding opportunities on the following three innovation challenges: 1. Bioresource Utilisation, 2. Smart Cities and Regions, and 3. Capacity Building.
ener2i EU Brokerage Event – hosted by the Committee of the Regions
Draft Agenda
1. Bioresource Utilisation
- Bioresource usage scenarios;
- Managing transition to a low-carbon economy;
- Sustainable use of agricultural waste;
2. Smart Cities and Regions
- Energy efficieny;
- Smart integration (i.e. grids, mobility);
- Decentralised energy systems;
3. Capacity Building
- The Human Factor;
- Smart specialization strategies (3s);
- Public awareness and engagement.
How will IncoNet EaP support my participation in the ener2i EU Brokerage Event?
IncoNet EaP provides travel grants (flight, accomodation, and other benefits) to eligible participants from Eastern Partnership Countries. Please check the eligibility criteria in the guidelines below and – if you are eligible – just fill in the application form an send it to Ms. Ágota Dávid (agota.david@rcisd.eu), your IncoNet EaP contact person regarding this grant, until 6 June 2014.
- Call Guidelines (.pdf)
- Application Form (.doc)
Background: What is ener2i?
Energy supply and usage and the stimulation of innovation activities are some of the most important challenges for the EU and for the Eastern European countries within the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Increased resource efficiency and innovation in renewable and sustainable energy offers the best potential to solve the urgent, interrelated societal challenges of insecurity over energy supplies, growing energy demand, and looming climate change.
The ener2i project focuses on the need to find innovative and sustainable solutions to these challenges, directly addressing the gap between new energy research and European industry. Existing research results are not being sufficiently transferred into innovative processes and products, and in Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Molsova) cooperation among research institutes, universities, and the business sector are at an early stage of development.
