From the 30th to the 31st of May, SINLOC - Sistema Iniziative Locali, project coordinator of NESOI – The European Islands Facility, with our Beneficiaries from Sicily, is attending the sixth edition of the Green Salina Energy Days event, presenting the latest updates on our incredible initiatives.
Europe Day!
On the 6th of May, NESOI was invited during Europe Day to the CORDIS stand in Berlaymont as an expert in renewable energy. An important meeting not only for the future of Europe but also to commemorate the signing of the 'Schuman Declaration' on May 9, 1950. It is considered the foundation of what is today the European Union.
The Third NESOI Short Study Tour (SST2) will take place in the ashtonishing Scottish Orkney Islands between 8-12 may 2023. The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) will host out participants providing very interesting knowledge about Marine Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen.
Transport Electrification On Sea and Land in Antiparos (TESLA) is a project supported by NESOI European Islands Facility, managed by our partners from CERTH, and promoted by Municipality of Antiparos, and Paros-Antiparos Ferry Cooperative.
Decarbonization of Generation and Resilience of Security of Power Supply in an autonomous North-Aegean Archipelago (DGRES-AEGEAN) is a project supported by NESOI European Islands Facility, managed by our partners from CERTH, and promoted by the Network of Sustainable Greek Islands (DAFNI) Public Power Corporation S.A.
Astypalea, the place once chosen by Volkswagen Group as a testbed for new mobility services like ride-sharing and car-sharing, has announced that the Greek owned utiliy (Public Power Corporation, PPC) will build 3.5MW solar and 10MWh battery system project in the island. As reported by PV Magazine, "The system will be fully operational in about 20 months and will cover half of Astypalaia’s electricity needs". In the next three or four years, it is bound to increase to the 80% of the island's electricity needs.
A group of nine people from six countries (Sweden, Estonia, Portugal, Greece, Spain and Denmark) travelled to the Italian island of Sicily between 27 – 31 of March to attend the Second NESOI Erasmus Short Study Tour (SST2), which was hosted by the Port Authority of the Strait of Messina.
From 28 – 30 March 2023, the European initiative BRIDGE celebrated its annual General Assembly gathering representatives from the Bridge community, which has 93 projects in total, with 53 running, and will soon reach 150 projects.
The Bridge community has agreed to contribute to the creation and development of a use-case repository, developing a dataspace connector for data exchange between local and federated spaces, identifying what data needs to be exchanged and why, and ensuring semantic interoperability between data models.
On 4 April 2023, the Network of Sustainable Greek Islands (DAFNI) in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, and in the framework of the project LIFE-IP CEI-Greece, titled: “Circular Economy Implementation in Greece” will organise an online workshop in English on the topic "Zero Waste Islands".
