Empowering Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Research Alliance for Europe 2020 challenges

ETRERA_2020 is a project aimed at faces the future energy needs in the Euro –Mediterranean area by reinforcing & creating a collaborative research/innovation network for supporting renewable energy sources (RES) technologies development and application.

ETRERA 2020 will address its efforts on secure, clean and efficient energy societal challenge with a focus on the following technologies:

• wind
• photovoltaic
• solar thermal
• hydrogen and fuel cells
• grid connection

ETRERA_2020 is a project funded in the framework of the 7FP – international cooperation – R2I-ENP.

R2I-ENP call has a double aim:

• reinforcing cooperation whit ENP Countries
• bridging the gap between research and innovation

The ETRERA_2020 project objectives, to be reached by the end of the project, are:

• Improve human resources & know how of MPC centers.
• Increase the networking opportunity among the main actors of the RES value chain
• Increase of public – private partnership
• Increase the accessibility to research facilities
• Increase the project/partners visibility in order to attract potential research/industry partners

The project main outputs are:

• the catalogue of competence of the 8 Research centres: research capacity, equipments, testing facilities, etc
• a common R&DI strategy/roadmap with policy recommendations and a financial plan
• some tutorial/publication on market and risk assessment, finance opportunities, etc
• the setting up of a Meta-cluster
• a Public-Private Partnership in RES technologies
• the exchange of best practices and mobility activities from Research to Enterprise
• technological/R&DI and business services
• the organisation of international brokerage events R2B
• the organisation of an international scientific conference

Project partners are research centres, intermediary and technology transfer organizations and business incubators:

Research centres

• Institute of Advanced Tecnologies for Energy “Nicola Giordano” of CNR, Italy
• Polytech Nantes, France.
• Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving, Greece
• Yildiz Technical University; Turkey
• The Scientific and technological Research Council of Turkey, Turkey
• The Centre of Research for Energy Technologies, Tunisia
• Al Najah University – Energy Research Centre, Palestine
• Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

Intermediary organization providing innovation support services & technoloy transfer

• Innova BIC, Italy
• European Renewable Energy Centres Agency, Belgium

Business community & Entities managing industrial cluster and science park & incubator

• Madrid Network - The Network of Clusters and Technological Parks, Spain
• European Business & Innovation Centre Network – EBN

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