AILE is a local energy agency working on renewable energies and energy savings in agricultural and rural areas of Western France. AILE’s usual partners are both farmers and local authorities. AILE stimulates non food biomass valorisation projects through:
- development of woodchips boilers and supply chain,
- biogas production at different scales (farm, centralised),
- providing support to the implementation of an energy policy at local level in rural areas.
EM Nomandie is a European business school based in Caen (France).
Vision :
- Create knowledge & provide answers to stakeholders in the various territories in which it operates, and beyond
- Contributes to the Normandie’s regional policies (e.g. digital transformation, sustainable development, logistics, blue economy)
- Increase its visibility (national or international)
The University of Twente is a public technical university located in Enschede, and ITC is the faculty of geo-information science and earth observation. ITC work on the following topics:
- Collaborative planning, stakeholder participation, Planning Support Systems, inclusion and inclusive mapping,
- Fields of application Climate adaptation, climate mitigation and energy transition, environmental health, urban cycling,
- Main approach: co-design of tools and processes, collaborative mapping workshops, tool evaluation, social learning, citizen science.
BEON is a partnership of companies and organizations in the Netherlands, its two main objectives are to promote:
- the use of bio-energy in the Eastern part of the Netherlands.
- bio-energy technology development in the region to foster sustainable economic growth and export potential.
The cluster wants to meet these goals by enhancing cooperation between organisations, institutes, and enterprises in the Eastern part of the Netherlands.
3N stands for Lower Saxony Network for Renewable Resources and Bioeconomy. The organisation aims to promote the development and use of sustainable products. Through the material and energetic use of renewable raw materials and biomass, 3N wants to make a contribution to climate protection and the development of a bio-based economy. 3N connects various players from the region and beyond the borders of Lower Saxony.
Energikontor Väst (EKV) is the regional energy agency of West Sweden and a part of Innovatum Science Park.
EKV promotes sustainable energy, renewables and energy efficiency in all sectors, in both technology and market development, as well as innovation management and regional coordination and support within sustainable energy and climate.
The main target groups are the 49 municipalities (with about 1,7 million inhabitants), the regional authorities and the market actors. EKV is also a regional coordinator for initiatives within the areas of: biogas, solar energy, wind power, energy efficiency and electrification (grid, supply, storage, EV charging infrastructure…).