A public company of the Government of the Canary Islands, with more than 30 years of experience, which is committed to science and technology as essential pieces in the process of socio-economic transformation and sustainable development of the Canary Islands.
As an instrumental entity of the regional executive, their activity is framed in the implementation of regional policies for the promotion of research and innovation applicable to the productive sector, as well as in the execution of collaborative and cooperation projects at an international level.
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The FORTIKA Consortium consists of 16 complementary partners from 9 different European Countries, namely Greece (Thessaloniki, Heraklion), United Kingdom (London), Germany (Berlin), Spain (Seville, Bilbao, Murcia), Belgium (Brussels), Slovenia (Ljubljana), Bulgaria (Sofia), Italy (Padova) and Ireland (Dublin). All partners are combining knowledge to achieve project aims.
The CTM is a single French territorial authority, bringing together the Conseil Départemental and the Conseil Régional de la Martinique. Created by Act no. 2011-884 of 27 July 2011, its executive body is the Executive Council, made up of 9 executive councillors, including its President. In particular, it is responsible for economic development, education, vocational training, transport, health and social development and regional cooperation.
FEDARENE (European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and the Environment) is the collective voice on the energy transition for regions and local, and regional energy agencies. FEDARENE’s members drive the energy transition and climate action in their territories through ambitious policy development and strategic facilitation actions.
The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR) represents some 150 regions in 24 European Union countries and beyond. It acts as a think tank, a network, and an interest group for regional authorities. Since it was set up in 1973, the CPMR has been acting to promote a more balanced development of European territories. Most of its work concerns the analysis of the implementation of EU policies with a strong territorial impact.
Founded in 1981, SINLOC is an Italian leading company of the market located in Padua for local development initiatives, operating both as economic, procedural and financial advisor, and as equity investor in PPP initiatives with a particular emphasis on social, economic and financial sustainability of projects. SINLOC is owned by eleven of the most important Italian banking foundations and has minority and majority shareholdings in special purpose vehicles, regional development banks, asset management companies and engineering companies focused on local development. The company has almost 30 employees and in 2017 its turnover reached 2,5 million in revenues from advisory. In particular, Sinloc carries out two types of main activities. On the one side of advisor, Sinloc operates as a strategic, economic and financial advisor, supporting decisions of Local Administrations, Institutions, Banking Foundations and private companies. On the other side, Sinloc operates as a Management Company and/or a Technical Advisor of investment vehicles and provides activities such as investment strategy definition, project scouting, investment structuring, financial closing and monitoring.
Sinloc is organised in the following 5 business areas: i) public administrations, ii) enterprises, iii) foundations and third sector organisations, iv) financial institutions and v) investments. The company operates in the following sectors: energy efficiency and renewable energy; public utilities; urban transformation, real estate, and local development; logistics and public transportation; art, culture, and tourism.
Sinloc supported several local institutions – under the European Local Energy Assistance program (ELENA) – for activating EE project pipelines in excess of 210 million Euros. Moreover, Sinloc activated investments in excess of 240 million Euros via three Urban Development Funds managed in partnership with Italian banking groups under the JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas) program promoted by the EIB.
Sinloc is, moreover, partner in two H2020 projects, Padova FIT Expanded and EEnvest, with the role of improving the financial conditions for energy renovation plans offered by a municipal One Stop Shop and to set up financial risks of defining a comprehensive financial risk modelling and investments evaluation framework for energy efficient renovation.
R2M Solution – Research to Market Solution – is an integrated and multi-disciplinary entrepreneurial innovation company that aggressively targets filling the gap between research activities and market implementation across the fields of Innovation, Engineering, Energy Services & Sustainability and ICT/Automation.
R2M Solution is a strategic innovator itself and as part of its business model helps organizations and projects plan and execute the strategic use research funding carried out over a comprehensive development strategy from idea to market. In doing so, R2M provides leadership, links high performance exploitation-oriented networks, and leverages public and private funding instruments.
Competences of R2M Solution include market analysis, business model development, VC capital investment preparation, license agreements, IP protection, and the leveraging of multinational business development mechanisms.
R2M Solution has branches in Italy, France, Spain and UK. R2M Solution has recently launched R2M Energy, an ESCO dedicated to NZEB retrofit measures.
RINA is a global corporation that provides engineering and consultancy services, as well as testing, inspection and certification across the Energy, Marine, Certification, Transport & Infrastructure and Industry sectors through a global network of 170 offices in 65 countries. Through its 3.700 talented professionals, RINA provides a wide range of high-quality tailored solutions aiming to back up the market operators across the entire life cycle of their projects. All RINA services are performed at the highest professional level, understanding and complying with Client’s needs and requirements while taking into due consideration sustainability and health, safety and environmental targets.
As a result of the integration of a number of internationally respected RINA companies, RINA pools several entities under one unique brand. In terms of Governance, RINA consists of the Holding Company RINA S.p.A. that controls and coordinates the two main operational companies RINA Services S.p.A. and RINA Consulting S.p.A.
RINA will be mainly involved in the project through its operational company RINA Consulting S.p.A (RINA-C).
As the engineering consultancy division of the RINA, RINA Consulting S.p.A. provides a wide range of services covering the whole project life cycle from feasibility and specialized technical studies to conceptual and detailed design, prototyping and testing, project management, site engineering as well as operation and maintenance management. Working alongside Clients, as a trusted technical partner, RINA Consulting S.p.A. provides a wide range of traditional and innovative services to critical industry sectors, including oil & gas, power, renewables, space & defence, transport & infrastructure sectors. As such, RINA Consulting S.p.A. offers high-end services to investors, promoters, operators and contractors, as well as to insurers and public administrations, to support their initiatives. Innovation is a key element in all our projects; RINA Consulting S.p.A. has a proven experience in helping its clients in developing their new products and services as well as managing their collaborative innovation processes.
This project particularly impacts RINA-C’s energy business, which helps support the sustainable growth of operators throughout the world to meet growing market demands in oil and gas, power generation (conventional, renewables and power grids) including environmental protection. The company provides a vast array of engineering and consultancy (also in supporting innovation financing services), testing, inspection and certification services, dedicated to all players of the sector, helping operators to meet sustainability targets as well as ensuring compliance to the highest standards of engineering and construction.
ZABALA BRUSSELS is a SME (over 12 employees) with wide experience in supporting entities in the management of their RTD and innovation activities, as well as in technology transfer projects and activities. It is the Belgium office of a consolidated RTD and Innovation consultancy firm working across Europe on these fields since 1986. Its headquarters are located in Spain (Mutilva, next to Pamplona), having offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia and Vigo. ZABALA also has its own offices in London (UK) with 1 employee, in Paris (France) with 8 people staff and in Colombia – Bogota with 3 employees. It currently provides, on a contract basis, consultancy services related to RTD and innovation management to a portfolio of 600 organisations (including SMEs, big companies, RTD centres, universities and public organizations). As part of its services, ZABALA is specialized in providing service to public administrations in the definition of new support innovation tools (definition of new rules related with public procurement as a relevant tool to support the innovation - CPi and PPI) and in supporting the exploitation of R&D results in regional, national and European projects.
Its international project department, the one actively linked to this project, is comprised by a remarkable team of specialists (technical staff, lawyers, economists) with vast experience in project and tender management and in supporting the companies in the participation process. The core tasks of the international team comprise the preparation, negotiation and management of R&D and innovation projects, the establishment of big consortia, the communication with EC and other public administration authorities as well as the development of studies for public bodies. ZABALA currently provides this kind of services to coordinators of around 60 projects, being also involved in ten different projects whether as partner or as coordinator.
Since 2000, ZABALA has been involved in several European projects where the main aim is to support the organisations to bring their research and innovation project results to the market. In these projects ZABALA has participated in assessing how close the project results are to the market and prioritising them. Additionally, ZABALA has participated providing the following services to the organisations to support them in this process:
- Cascade Funding: definition and calls management.
- Elaboration of a public funding roadmap to support the next steps to be carried out by the organization to reach the market. ZABALA has extensive experience in public funding for innovation at regional, national and European level.
- Training for business plan elaboration and IPR.
- Training for elaboration of pitching elevators.
- Support the access to private funding: VC, Business Angels.
- Support the access to corporates and first clients in B2C environments
In addition, since 2015, ZABALA has enlarged its activities with the opening of a Social Innovation department which main role is to provide the following services to clients and projects:
- Studies on the social impact of business activity
- Social impact strategies required in European projects
- Corporate Social Responsibility programmes
- Risk analysis and strategic diagnostics (countries and sectors)
- Guidance and training on Social Innovation practices
- Due Diligence planning and Social Licensing
- Human Rights Impact Strategy and Assessment
CIRCE Foundation (Centre of Research for Energy Resources and Consumption) was established in 1993 as an independent Research Centre to create and develop innovative solutions and scientific/technical knowledge and to transfer them to the business sector in the field of energy. CIRCE’s mission is to drive forward improvements in energy efficiency and to spread the use of renewable energy by means of the development of R+D+I activities and formative actions, thereby contributing to a sustainable development.
Over 190 professionals with a broad variety of profiles compose the team of people working at CIRCE. Since 1993, CIRCE has conducted more than 2.500 R&D&I project at national and international level and has trained more than 1.850 professionals from 47 countries within the postgraduate courses CIRCE promotes. In year 2001, CIRCE was recognized as National Centre of Innovation and Technology. CIRCE maintains a national leadership position in the field of Energy Efficiency, being the third national Research Centre getting more projects in competitive calls during period 2004-2007 in Spain. The main research topics in CIRCE are: energy efficiency, wind and solar power, natural resources, biomass, electrical substations, smart-grids and storage, thermal power systems and emissions reduction, sustainable mobility and energy socioeconomics. CIRCE is also a very active actor in the R&D and Renewable Energy integration projects at Spanish and European level. As a proof of its experience in international projects, CIRCE has participated in 63 European projects. Currently CIRCE is involved in 23 FP7 projects, being the coordinator of 6 of them and 42 H2020, being coordinator of 15. CIRCE joined in 2015 The Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R), by means of which aims to reflect CIRCE’s commitment to continuously improve its Human Resource policies in line with the European Charter & Code, and to provide a stimulating and a favourable work environment.
CIRCE carries out R&D&I activities with the ultimate aim of ensuring the energy efficiency of products, processes and services that contribute to reducing energy demand without compromising supply comfort and safety. The concept of energy efficiency ranges from the search for better technology on thermal and electric systems in a broad scope of sectors, to changes in behaviour regarding energy usage, encouraging a wiser more sustainable consumption.
The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) is the only research centre in Northern Greece and one of the largest in the country being founded in 2000. It is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. CERTH has important scientific and technological achievements in many areas including: Energy, Environment, Industry, Mechatronics, Information & Communication, Transportation & Sustainable Mobility, Health, Agro-biotechnology, Smart farming, Safety & Security, as well as several cross-disciplinary scientific areas. From CERTH, Information Technologies Institute (ITI) and Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI) will participate in order to fulfil the objectives of INSULAE. These are outlined in details in the next paragraphs.
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas / Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute
On March 30, 2012 Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI) merged with Institute for Solid Fuels Technology and Applications (ISFTA) to establish the Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute (CPERI). The new established Research Institute is a member of the Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH). CPERI contributes to the increased competitiveness of the Greek and European industry by providing unique and innovative solutions to research problems of technological and/or commercial interest. CPERI is classified among the Institutes of Excellence in Greece and employs a scientific staff of about 250 people, while its inflows is around to EUR 10 million €/year. In this light, the total budget of bioenergy and energy recovery projects by the utilisation of clean fuels is until now over 14 million €. Moreover, it holds the 16th position among the European Research Institutes (top 50 REC organisations) having signed grant agreements in FP7 in terms of counts of participations for the period 2007-2013.
CPERI has a wide background on the study and construction of process systems and integrated systems used for energy production, management and storage and has unique knowledge in system design, engineering and industrial automation. CPERI’s expertise and competences include:
- Design of fully automated process and energy harvesting systems;
- Modelling and design optimization of complex systems (power systems, renewable energy systems);
- Energy management of autonomous power systems;
- Design and implement Smart-grid topology to optimize energy resources;
CPERI employs several prefeasibility studies for public buildings and facilities in order to assess their current energy status and proposes solutions, which reduce the energy consumption by increasing their energy efficiency (Greece-Albania projects 2014, CBIP and GALET).
CPERI is already involved in several National based actions related to Energy Saving, with use of RES, green transportation, environmental upgrading, optimum waste management and sustainable management of water resources. A current program called ‘Green Communities’ is taking place in Elati, a village near Servia-Velvento in Greece. The municipality has a need for the integration of green energy technologies to achieve energy sustainability and CPERI’s staff had the scientific supervision of this action. Additionally, CPERI supervises the technical specifications and the official tender arrangement for the integration of RES solutions for the case of six different retrofitted public buildings in the region of Grevena in Greece, in the framework of the EEA-Grants (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) funded by 85% from EU and by 15% from corresponding Public Investment Programme of the Greek Republic The total budget of the demo activities is 1.5 mE and the project finishes by Dec 2017.In the framework of this project the following actions, which are in line with the INSULAE objectives, are foreseen:
Α: Public building of Region (Autonomous PV 60 kW, LED lightning,Compensation capacitors, Heat pump of 65kW, Charging station of electric vehicles through solar energy)
Β: General hospital of Grevena (Autonomous PV 40 kW, Solar thermal system, LED lightning, Compensation capacitors)
C: Public swimming pool (Solar thermal system, pipe insulation)
D: Public gym (Solar thermal system)
Ε: Residence for students (Autonomous PV 20 kW, Solar thermal system)
F: School for professional training (Autonomous PV 40 kW, Geothermal heat pump, LED lightning)
CPERI offers expertise in sustainable development in terms of energy and energy efficiency with a focus on environmental protection, such as:
- Identifying the consumption of energy
- Undertake the technical assessment for the available technologies that could increase the flexibility of the blocks of buildings: a) RES, b) available energy storage solutions;
- Monitoring, control of implementation of the proposed actions and reporting their results
- Examine the replication potential, e.g. for additional Greek cities and islands.
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas / Information Technologies Institute
The Information Technologies Institute (ITI) was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 10/03/2000 it is a founding member of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) also supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT).
CERTH/ITI is one of the leading Institutions of Greece in the fields of Informatics, Telematics and Telecommunications, with long experience in numerous European and national R&D projects. It is active in a large number of research domains such as Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Security and Surveillance, Image and Signal Processing, Computer & Cognitive Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Multimedia, Database and Information Systems and Social Media Analysis.
CERTH/ITI has participated in more than 175 research projects funded by the European Commission (FP5-FP6-FP7 & H2020) and more than 100 research projects funded by Greek National Research Programmes and Consulting Subcontracts with the Private Sector (Industry). The last three years, the Information Technologies Institute has attracted an income of more than 25.5 M€ from National and European competitive R&D projects. For the last 10 years, the publication record of ITI includes more than 270 scientific publications in international journals, more than 600 publications in conferences and 100 books and book chapters. These works have been cited in more than 6.500 times.
With respect to this project, the Information Technology Institute exhibits substantial research activity as well as technology transfer actions, and employs a high quality scientific group in the area of multi-sensorial and energy related systems, the development of simulation platforms and visual analytics for highly complex systems. It participates in research networks with assorted institutes and industrial partners in Greece and Europe and is in the process of establishing a spin-off company, to commercially exploit the research results (already available as prototypes) of the Laboratory. The Information Technologies Institute exhibits also substantial research activity in the area of virtual, augmented and mixed realities where included modeling and simulation of complex virtual environments, haptic force feedback applied research, 3D modelling and compression, deformable objects and cloth modelling, collaborative virtual environments, new sensor development for head/hands/body tracking, multimedia analysis/synthesis, gesture recognition, head motion modelling and tracking, advanced applications of virtual/augmented/mixed reality in education and training, e-health, assistive technologies, culture, industry and e-business.
Concluding, CERTH/ITI has high experience in the topics and objectives of this project. CERTH/ITI (Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras) was the coordinator of the FP7-ICT (CP) Adapt4EE “Occupant Aware, Intelligent and Adaptive Enterprises” and FP7-ICT (CP) INERTIA “Integrating Active, Flexible and Responsive Tertiary Prosumers into a Smart Distribution Grid”, in which it was leading the human presence and movement analysis activities in controlled enviroments (e.g. buildings, factory shopfloors etc.) as well as the development of Demand Side Management strategies, potential role and applications for the aggregator, energy monitoring of tertiary buildings through distributed multi-sensor installations and visual analytics and data mining technics.
Moreover, it is participating in H2020-ICT (IA) VICINITY “Open virtual neighbourhood network to connect intelligent buildings and smart objects”, H2020-EE (IA) enCOMPASS “Collaborative Recommendations and Adaptive Control for Personalised Energy Saving”, H2020-LCE (IA) inteGRIDy “integrated Smart GRID Cross-Functional Solutions fot Optimized Synergetic Energy Distribution, Utilization & Storage Technologies” and H2020-EE (RIA) GreenSoul “Eco-aware Persuasive Networked Data Devices for User Engagement in Energy Efficiency”, extending and applying expertise on energy consumption modelling privacy-aware microlocation tracking within buildings, forecasting, DR prediction, flexibility analysis, developing data and visual analytics engines.
In addition, through the participation in the FP7-ICT (CSA) Ready4SmartCities “ICT Roadmap and Data Interoperability for Energy Systems in Smart Cities” and H2020-EeB (CSA) SWIMing “Semantic Web for Information Management in Energy Efficient Buildings” projects, CERTH/ITI has gained substantial experience in energy data interoperability, semantics, ontologies and linked data in the wider smart-cities concept.
Finally, both Institutes act as Innovation manager in the recently EU funded project of Smart Cities and Communities named as IRIS “Integrated and Replicable Solutions for Co-Creation in Sustainable Cities”, supporting the investigation and replication of innovative technologies promoting the application of smart RES solutions in different districts of the 3 lighthouse cities of Utrecht (NL, Project Coordinator), Gothenburg (SE) and Nice Côte d’Azur (FR) and the 4 Follower Cities of Vaasa (FI), Alexandroupolis (GR), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES), and Focsani (RO). IRIS ambition is to unlock the intelligence of communities by co-creating elegant action in a sustainable Europe. IRIS is organized around 5 key challenges, referred as Transition Tracks, focusing on (i) Energy Positive Districts, (ii) Smart Energy Management, (iii) Smart e-Mobility, (iv) a digital integrated City Innovation Platform and (v) Citizen Engagement and Co-creation.
E.ON is one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies with facilities across Europe, Russia and North America and just under EUR113 billion in sales in 2013. E.ON owns electric power distribution grids in a large part of the countries in Europe, with a majority in Germany and Sweden. Already today the trends in part of E.ONs grids are changing. Due to an increasing amount of generation units, wind and photovoltaic, the direction of power flow in parts of the network is shifting during a normal day. The utilization in parts of the distribution system is close to its physical limit. Therefore, there is a large potential to develop the distribution grids by increasing the communication platform. The main goal is to find new distinguished solutions to increase the capacity of the distribution grid by developing new planning and operation criterion, e.g. demand response management and virtual power plant.
E.ON SE. is an international energy supplier based in Essen, Germany. E.ON has around 43,000 employees. E.ON has a clear focus on three strong core businesses: Energy Networks, Customer Solutions, and Renewables.
E.ON Solutions is part of E.ON SE. E.ON Services focuses on bringing innovative products and services tailored for customer needs. The company is a main enabler for energy transformation within E.ON SE. The areas targeted are home energy management systems, PV and battery, E-mobility, smart heating, flexibility aggregation and virtual power plants (VPP).
Wolf Theiss is one of the leading law firms in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). We have built our reputation on a combination of unrivalled local knowledge and strong international capability. We opened our first office in Vienna 60 years ago. Our team now brings together over 340 lawyers from a diverse range of backgrounds, working in offices in 13 countries throughout the CEE/SEE region.
Our Zagreb team is made up of approximately 15 lawyers specializing in all areas of commercial law, including corporate law, banking, finance and insurance, real estate, competition law, privatization, public procurement, concessions, arbitration and litigation.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu delivers world-class advisory and consulting services through its member firms. Internationally experienced professionals strive to deliver seamless, consistent services wherever their clients operate.
Deloitte counts on more than a century of experience providing services under the same quality standards all over the world, including the most powerful economies, presenting the following figures (FY17 figures):
- A leading global network of 263,900 employees in over 154 countries and a balanced geographical coverage, as well as a revenue of US$ 38.8 billion in FY2017 worldwide, placing the Firm ahead of its competitors in terms of revenue.
- Deloitte has a highly-qualified team (over 13,000 professionals worldwide) dedicated exclusively to the Energy and Natural Resources market, serving to 63% (66 companies) of the 104 Energy & Resources companies listed in the 2013 Global Fortune 500®.
Deloitte has an Energy Economy Consulting Team focused on evaluating the impact of the energy systems on the economy and the society based on comprehensive modelling and simulation methodologies and IT tools.
Deloitte has extensive experience in the collaboration with European and worldwide leaders of the renewable energy and the energy efficiency fields.
The Hellenic Association for Energy Economics (HAEE) is the Greek affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).
HAEE is a non-profit research and professional organization acting as an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among energy experts. HAEE was founded in 2015 in Greece, and has a global orientation welcoming the participation of researchers and practitioners from around the world interested in energy and economic related fields.
It acts as an independent consulting body for national and international organizations to whom it provides a broad contribution on issues related to energy, economics, policymaking and theory.
Through meetings and joint initiatives HAEE also provides a means of professional communication and exchange within its members and the authorities defining the Greek energy policy.
HAEE organizes meetings amongst experts and specialists interested in networking energy, economics and environment - organizes conferences and seminars on both national and international levels - promotes training initiatives in the energy and economic sector - provides researches, studies and other services for its members.
HAEE promotes the understanding of energy, environment and economy related topics within universities and encourages the participation in the Association activities of young students who are invited to seminars and conferences and can make use of the IAEE library for their academic works.
HAEE is financially supported by member dues, contributions for research activities carried out for companies and bodies involved in the energy field, and by the sale of conference proceedings as well as conference fees and other initiatives.
The Azorean Directorate for Energy (Direção Regional da Energia, in Portuguese) – part of SRTMI –, is the entity of the Azorean Government responsible for all energy-related matters. It follows-up all energy vectors within the Azores, as well as their local production and use. It oversees energy-related installations such as those of the local electricity utility, filling stations or gas networks. It is responsible for adopting European and national legislation to the regional context as well as proposing its own. It drives the regional programs for energy, namely energy efficiency programs, renewable energy generation, energy transition, sustainable mobility, promotion of energy literacy and cooperation with other regions.