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Renewables Update N°7 - March 2012

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1. RETS project News
2. Good practice exchange
3. Regional zoom
4. Upcomin events
5. Go to
6. RES News
7. RETS in Europe
 

1.  RETS project news
 
In this issue of "Renewables Update" we focus on two of the regional seminars, held in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands (November 2011) and in Maribor, Slovenia (November and December 2011) at the end of last year. The number of participants in each of these seminars shows that there is significant interest in the topics for local authorities developed by the RETS project.

We also make a zoom on two of the project partners, Staffordshire University who is in charge of the project work on good practices, and the Portuguese local authority, Sertã, who is in charge of the project communication activities.

In 2012, the partners will work hard on disseminating the project tools notably through a compendium of good practices in renewable energies for small local authorities that will be published in the Spring. The project is also developing closer collaboration with the INTERREG project RENREN and the network IMEDER with the preparation of joint seminars and events in perspective.

 

2. Good practice exchange

RETS regional partner seminars

The project partners have been exchanging experience during the fourth period through 2 seminars and joint work on a project compendium of good practice.

9th seminar Sittard Geleen, Netherland - 14^th and 14^th November 2012

On 14th and 15th November the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, the Province of Limburg and Chemelot organised a seminar on renewable energy. The aim was to exchange knowledge on renewable energy to stimulate local policies.

On the first day, the Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen provided the backdrop for a series of lectures where the emphasis was on the European and national policy and the replies of the industry at home and abroad.

Bert de Vries, Deputy Director-General for Energy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation thinks it is the government’s task to activate the market by taking away obstacles, so that companies are stimulated to utilise waste heat and saving energy, for example. He plead for a standardisation of various systems that Member States now use to promote renewable energy.

MEP Lambert van Nistelrooij says that the Netherlands still lags behind the energy targets which are set in the Europe 2020 strategy. He negotiates on behalf of the European Parliament with the Member States about the future structural funds, which is in the period of 2014 – 2020 a total of € 376 billion. With the deployment of funds, according to Lambert van Nistelrooij, the focus shifts to the EU 2020 targets. This will create growth and jobs for all European regions, especially for smart regions. In order to stimulate companies for sustainable enterprise, clear regulations must be developed and knowledge developed by universities must arrive at the SME’s faster.
 

Atzo Nicolai, president of DSM Netherlands points to the opportunities that bio-based economy offers for the Dutch businesses. One of the first actions based on the ‘bio-based manifest’ is the research for more sustainable production and distribution chains, for example by supporting promising sustainable initiatives. Martijn Wagener explains how bio-based economy works. In the modern bio-energy central, Essent uses clean and plant material – especially prunings from Forestry Commission forests, municipal parks and saw residues from wood industry – to generate green power for approximately 60,000 households.

According to the German climatologist Hans-Jochen Luhmann (Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy), renewable energy through the phased termination of nuclear power in Germany, is high on the agenda. By 2050, Germany can mostly run on renewable energy, providing there is a strong commitment to energy conservation, wind and solar energy, sufficient storage capacity and the development of a smart grid.

Persuading energy companies to choose renewable energy is one of the controversies of Professor of Innovation and Sustainable Development at the Maastricht University, Rene Kemp. He strongly opposed to the construction of new coal plants. Structural change is a necessity. Ed Rousseau, initiator of DFSM Solar Energy Incubator, supports this.

The second seminar day at the House of Province in Maastricht, was devoted to regional examples on renewable energy and building a regional smart grid. Ad de Man and Giel Geraerds of the Water Company Limburg go through the process of water extraction to water purification and talk about specific opportunities for energy savings. As an example they mention the yet to be built new sustainable sludge digester in Venlo, which is regaining energy from the sludge of the sewage treatment plants. This provides 30% more electrical energy and the installation halves the amount of sewage sludge disposal.

Egbert-Jan Sol, director of TNO announces that solar panels will be cheaper soon. Because the payback time is shorter than six year of a term of thirty years, investing in solar panels will be a positive business case, he predicts. When in ten years solar energy storage will be possible, the overcapacity will be used to create more hydrocarbons. With around 50 to 100 m2 the total energy need, electricity, heating, transport etc. can be realised. To the enthusiasm of the attendees, he presents more chemergy scenario’s.

Paul Hamm is one of many Dutch investors in sustainability. He sees many opportunities for a smart and efficient use of (aquatic) biomass. He promotes algae biomass, since algae grows ten times faster than any other crop on earth. Farmers could consider to stop grow rape seed, but putting the land (divided into basins) half a meter under water and grow algae. He emphasises that not all biomass needs to be cultivated. Residues from the agriculture and the agro industry are often thrown away, while the Netherlands cout get about 400 pj out of it.

Ruud Guyt, alderman of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, indicates that by utilising industrial waste heat and the sustainable heat of the Biomass Energy central Sittard for heating homes, institutions and business, a significant contribution to regional and provincial sustainable targets. Concretely, the CO2 emission can be reduced by 47,000 tons and the gas consumption by 26 million m3. To capitalise these opportunities, a few partners founded The Green Net. Through a European contract the governments are now selecting a private partner. He is satisfied with the quality of the businesses which are on the shortlist.

With seven concrete projects that fit into the Green Deal, according to deputy Patrick van der Broeck, Limburg is on the foreground when it comes to the greening of the energy sector and sustainable economy. The seven projects include the construction of two durable energy centrals in Venlo and Maastricht. These centrals will generate electricity from wind, solar, biomass and hydropower for 66,000 households, approximately 13% of the households in Limburg. A similar project like The Green Net, where waste heat is sold, are also on a roll in Maastricht and Kerkrade. These are examples of specific local conditions where renewable energy sources are linked to smart grids. Furthermore, the deputy states that the province of Limburg has € 20 million available through an energy fund for sustainable projects. The fund is intended for both individuals and businesses.

After a plea by Catherine Ledig (project director RETS) to respond better in the educational sector to challenges that renewable energy entails, brought about the epilogue for Jean-Philippe Rieu. In a dynamic presentation appeals to the entrepreneurial spirit of companies. Jean-Philippe Rieu wants to work with Raywavers (small-scale wind turbines) in Maastricht and in ‘Tomorrow’s neighbourhood’ (Heerlen). Cofely and Stawag are the two companies which both fund one prototype. With sufficient interest in these wind turbines, a location for the production of these Raywavers will be situated in Parkstad Limburg.

2nd and 3rd days Maribor seminar

On the 10th of November 2011 Energap together with national newspaper company Energetika.net organised the RETS Seminar which was held in Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The first and the second section was led by Energetika.net and the third section were organised and led by Energap and RETS project. The seminar was attended by energy managers and local authority advisors from the private and public sector.

Peter Praczki was the RETS partner who attended the seminar. In the invited lecture, Dr. Praczki showed that the energy crisis at the end of the era of fossil fuels will not be able to be met by renewable energy, but could be overcome by technologies such as the Stirling engine.

The second and the third part of the seminar were structured around 3 thematic modules, one of them in Ljubljana and two of them in Maribor.

The first thematic module was about Opportunities for Renewable energy. It was dedicated to the Transfer of knowledge and experience in the field of renewable energy. Vlasta Krmelj, Jernej Stritih, Andrej Predin, Franko Nemac, Tanja Mohorič and Miloš Vignjević discussed the realistic possibility of introduction and use of RES in the enterprise sector, industry and public sector; Financing in the field of Renewable energy; Green Public Procurement; Public - private partnership and innovation in renewable energy. 

Despite the apparent pessimism at the event it turned out that Slovenian companies and institutions are enthusiastically working on innovation and practical development of clean technologies.

The third part of Seminar was organised by Energap on 14th of December 2011 in the Municipality of Maribor’s Hall. The seminar was attended by public sector (municipalities and public service). The Seminar was divided in two thematic modules. The themes of the modules were chosen based on the most topical issues in the public sector in Slovenia these days. The first module was dedicated to European funding and EU projects, where two people presented the topic. The second module was devoted to Regional policies and RES regulations. At the same time,  local examples of good practices pointed out by RETS project were presented. The welcome speech was performed by Mr Milan Mikl, vice mayor of Maribor.

Both events received very positive feedback on the delegate forms, so in general the second and the third part of seminar were a great success.

Good practices and compendium

The RETS partners spent most of 2010 and 2011 collecting and recording good practices to be shared with the consortium. Over 59 good practices covering all project themes (Biomass, Waste, Wind, Hydro and Marine, Geothermal and Solar), in the 9 countries of RETS project have been identified.

A selection of these good practices are now available for download on the project website:
www.rets-project.eu/en/good-practice/good-practice-sharing.html

During the Spring 2012, the partners will also finalise a compendium bringing together the most significant  experiences identified by the RETS partnership in order to facilitate their transfer.

RESpedia

Through collaborative work, the RETS partners have developed "RESpedia" a small encyclopedia about Renewable Energies designed especially for local authorities. Some of these articles have been posted on the project website and a selection are also available in the 9 different languages of the project partners: DE, EN, FR, HU, IT, NL, PT, RO, SL

Discover more on the project website: www.rets-project.eu/en/respedia/respedia.html

3.  Regional Zoom

STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY

Staffordshire University (www.staffs.ac.uk) is in the West Midlands region of England. The University has two main campus sites, Stafford and Stoke on Trent, North Staffordshire and carries out a wide range of teaching, research and knowledge transfer activities on energy technology, energy businesses and  energy policy.

Four different faculties are involved with the RETS project; Sciences (Christine Dover, administrative support, Caroline Jackson, business advisor), Business School (Jon Fairburn, Enterprise Reader with interests in energy policy, local policy and the renewable energy industry ), Law School (Ruby Hammer, Senior lecturer in Law with interests in public consultation and planning) and the Faculty for Computing, Engineering and Technology (Neil Packer, Senior Lecturer in Engineering with interests in policy and technology).

The Staffordshire University partners are responsible for designing the template for best practices, leading on the creation of the compendium, producing expert articles and rating items for intelligence energy sources.

Other energy projects at Staffordshire University include:

Renewable Energy Supply Chain Opportunities - which was funded by the Regional development Agency (now abolished) and which aims to help private sector companies in the supply chain for renewable energy. The project leader is David Terry in Sciences.

ARBOR Biomass for Energy - an INTERREG IVB project which is run by colleagues in the Faculty for Computing, Engineering and Technology.

SEE GREEN - Senior Engagement in a Green Economy  - a Grundtvig project to develop learning materials for senior ctizens and managers of senior citizens resdiences to deal with energy issues. The team at Staffordshire University has six members from the Business School and one from FCET. Team members Jon Fairburn (team leader) , Tony Bickley, Stephen Hall, Andrew Hirst, Nathalie Maddocks, Peter Greene and Neil Packer (Faculty for Computing, Engineering and Technology).

Contact:
Jon Fairburn, Business School, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke On Trent, ST4 2DF, UK
jon.fairburn@staffs.ac.uk
+44 1782 294094

Sertã

Sertã’s Municipality: in the centre of Portugal, closest to everyone!

Sertã’s municipality is located in the central region of Portugal, in the Castelo Branco’s District. With 15.663 inhabitants, this municipality was the birthplace of such notable men as D. Nuno Alvares Pereira (who became Saint Nuno of Saint Mary), Gonçalo Rodrigues Caldeira, António Lopes dos Santos Valente and priest Manuel Antunes.

Its historical origins date back to the third millennium BC. The first signs of settlement are given to us by the existence of tapirs. From the first millennium BC. there are several traces of forts - St. Maria Madalena in Cernache Bonjardim and Our Lady of Trust in Pedrógão Pequeno. From this period, we can also find art carved in stone: Fechadura and Lajeira located in Figueiredo and Ermida.

According to the legend, Sertã’s castle might have been built around 74 BC by Sertorius, a roman general in the exile due to political reasons. Sertorius came to the Iberian Peninsule around 80 BC and joined Lusitanians, after the promise of their support and their invitations to be their leader. During several wars to conquer Lusitânia, there was a roman attack to Sertã’s castle in which the castle’s chief, Sertório, got killed. Celinda, Sertorius’ wife, became furious afterfinding out about her husband's death. When she was frying eggs in a sertã (a square frying pan), she noticed the arrival of the enemy at the castle: she grabed the sertã with boiling oil and from the top of the castle she threw down the boiling oil over the enemy in order to defend the castle and to revenge her husband’s death.The enemy withdrew until the neighbour’s indispensable reinforcement arrived. After these events, the village was named Sertã, in memory of this heroic achievement.

This municipality's culinary specialities are of a precious rarity. The most popular dishes are Maranhos, Bucho and the fish soup. For dessert, you can taste the delicious Cartuchinhos de Amêndoa (almond cones with egg filling).

Maranhos and Cartuchinhos de amêndoa

According to the nomenclature of the territorial unit, Sertã’s municipality, with 446.6 km2 of land area, is framed in “Pinhal Interior Sul”. Sertã’s municipality is composed of fourteen parishes: Cabeçudo, Carvalhal, Castelo, Cernache do Bonjardim, Cumeada, Ermida, Figueiredo, Marmeleiro, Nesperal, Palhais, Pedrógão Pequeno, Sertã, Troviscal e Várzea dos Cavaleiros, all with different characteristics, in particular concerning the number of inhabitants, economic and social conditions.

As far as renewable energies are concerned, during 20th century, Sertã received the privilege of enjoying the potential of the three major dams which control the river Zêzere: Cabril (300 GWH/year), Bouçã (150 GWH/year) and Castelo do Bode (400 GWH/year).

Bouçã Dam

More recently, Sertã has benefited from the wind farm construction in 2004 with 26 wind turbines. Furthermore, Sertã has two Biomass Power Plants with 3,5MW(built and testing) and 10MW (licensed). In the near horizon, there is a  microgenerations Project.

Some initiatives have been implemented: geothermal energy in a nursing home, placement of solar panels on the roof of the municipal swimming pool and the replacement of the City Hall lamps by energy saving ones.

Sertã’s municipality is an associate member of Médio Tejo 21 (energy and environment entity) that supports local and regional public policies of energy and sustainability, boosts investment and growth on a perspective of symbiotic development, innovation and sustainability.

On 3^rd February 2010, Sertã held the launch of RETS Project. Later on, in July 2011, Sertã received another RETS seminar where the RETS partners were able to share the good pratices developed in their territories. Being a RETS partner, Sertã’s municipality expects to contribute to the project through its experience in the use of renewable energies, aiming to consolidate and develop a multi municipal strategy in renewable energies for the public and private sectors.

Last November, Sertã’s municipality signed the Covenant Of Mayors, in a ceremony held in Brussels. The Covenant of Mayors is the mainstream European movement involving local and regional authorities, voluntarily committing to increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources on their territories.

For all of this, the municipality of Sertã remains a magical place of passion, full of stories, legends and dreams. A living room that we share with us and with all who visit us. Sertã’s Municipality: in the centre of Portugal, closest to everyone! 

4. Upcoming events

5^th Steering Committee - Online meeting on 22^nd March 2012 

Good practice tour of Wales - "Sustainable Energy Best Practice in the European Regions" -  North and South Wales 12-14 March 2012 

Seminar "Education and Renewable Energy" in Vescés - 13^th April 2012 

5^th Study visit Austria (Graz and Güssing ) / Slovenia (Maribor) - 8^th and 9^th of May 2012 

Joint half-day seminar with the RENREN Project during EUSEW (Europeen Sustainable Energy Week) in Brussels - 19^th June 2012 (p.m.) 

6^th Study visit to Schlewig Holstein - Denmark - 11^th and 12^th of July 2012

5. Go to

In each newsletter issue, the RETS project team will suggest links to other European and national funded projects dealing with similar themes.

National Programme in the Field of Renewable Energies in Romania: the “Green House” Programme financed by the Environment Fund Administration

The Environment Fund Administration  acts as a specialised body of the central public administration under the coordination of the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Administration is responsible for the management of the Environment Fund, a public fund the income of which is included in the general consolidated budget.The fund supports the non-reimbursable funding of national programmes and projects for the sustainable development of Romania. One of these programmes is dedicated to the installation of renewable energy-based heating systems, including the replacement and completion of the existing traditional heating systems (Green House Programme). The programme is carried out both for the individual  persons and legal entities and was initiated in July 2010. It was successfully carried out in 2010 and 2011. 

The programme for householders consists in providing fixed, non-reimbursable amounts of money from the Fund budget to individuals according to the type of installation that the beneficiary installs: 

• up to RON 6,000 for installing solar panels;
• up to RON 6,000 for installing heating installations burning pellets, coal briquettes, wood wastes, vegetable, agricultural, forestry or wood chips and wastes for producing heat.     
• up to RON 8,000 for installing heat pumps.

www.mediu.ro
www.afm.ro

6.  RES news
 

International News

Draft Work Programme for 2013 FP7 calls

Here are some details of the draft work programme for the 2013 FP7 environment work programme. However, this information should be used with caution, since it is subject to change before the final version of the Work Programme is published around July 2012.

The 2013 Work Programme may include some of the features listed below.

1. The challenge-driven approach an overarching theme of “transformative and responsible innovation”;

• three objectives:
  • major societal challenges;
  • European leadership in innovation;
  • knowledge transfer, assessment, uptake and exploitation;
• five priorities:
  • coping with climate change;
  • sustainable use and management of land and seas;
  • improving resource efficiency;
  • protecting citizens from environmental hazards; and
  • mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society.

2. Strengthening the innovation dimension some broader, bottom-up topics:

• some with a two-stage submission and evaluation procedure as pioneered in the 2011 Eco-Innovation Topics and the 2012 Environment Calls;
• specific Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) and industry support actions, such as:
  • SME targeted topics;
  • demonstrators, prototypes, standardisation and validation work;
  • open access, design and business models; and
  • knowledge uptake and transfer.

3. Exploring new mechanisms for research and innovation

• social innovation;
• inducement prizes (i.e. giving a prize to the first people to solve a problem or obtain a research output);
• pre-commercial procurement;
• foresight studies; and  awareness raising actions.
   

Plus the 2013 Environment Work Programme may focus on some strategic areas and some ‘cross thematic approaches’ with other themes in the Co-operation Programme. For example:

• a cross-thematic call on oceans:
  • innovative sensor development for the future in-situ component of the Ocean Observatory Systems;
  • biosensors for real time monitoring of biohazard and man-made chemical contaminants in the marine environment;
  • the BONUS initiative on the Baltic Sea (which was set up under Article 185 of the European Treaty);
  • Public Private Partnership (PPP) call topics related to the Energy Efficient Buildings (E2B) PPP and the Green Cars PPP; and
  •  RIO+20 and green economy – mobilisation of a Sustainable Development Community (‘Rio+20’ is a major United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 4-6 June 2012, 20 year later than the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, UNCED)

Local authority news

A useful report from Scotland on the issues for consumers adopting micro-generation.
The report follows the consumer journey for people who are installing microgeneration – from being unaware of microgen right through to installation – and maps out some of the barriers and drivers throughout the process. This includes the problematic up-front cost of the technology, through to concerns about the competence and skills of the installer. The report then summarises lessons for industry, government and consumer.
Link: www.consumerfocus.org.uk/files/2011/12/Keeping-FiT.pdf
 

The Highland Heat Map (Scotland)
The Highland Heat Map provides users with tools to analyse and interrogate opportunities for renewable heat at a local scale.  It takes into account issues such as heat demand, potential heat supply and skills and technology available in an area. The report also provides a template which outlines key stages in preparing a heat map. It is the intention that the heat map will play an important role in identifying and defining future renewable heat opportunities across the Highlands.


District of Rhein-Hunsrück honored with the European SolarPrize 2011
At the RETS seminar in May 2011 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, the District Administrator Bertram Fleck presented the model of the "Zero-emission district" and the development in the District of Rhein-Hunsrück. The seminar was organised within the RETS project to the regional authorities and businesses to provide current information from the field of renewable energies.

The District of Rhein-Hunsrück has just been honoured with the European Solar Prize 2011. In the past, the Rhein-Hunsrück district had to import nearly all the energy required to supply its needs. Together with the 103,000 inhabitants it, therefore, set itself the task of moving to regional, renewable resources for energy supply and to change from an energy importer to an energy exporter.

The commitment initially started with a systematic energy controlling in all public schools and administration buildings and the gradual upgrading of the buildings with renewable energy. Politically, 2006, the creation of an energy plan for local and regional material flow management was decided.

With the help of its wind turbines the district is already in 2012 able to be an energy exporter. By 2014, annual electricity production from renewable energy sources should increase to 236%. Through the "1000 Roofs Initiative” the solar energy is expanding with the help of local banks and the local crafts industry. Solar thermal systems, heat pumps and district heating networks with wood heating plants supply the heat demand.

The measures of the district lead to a significant increase of regional added value and to an avoidance of energy import costs. At the same time valuable new jobs could be created.

District Administrator Bertram Fleck at the RETS seminar

EU News

Seminar during the European Union Sustainable Energy Week - 19th June 2012 (EUSEW)
During this event the RETS project together with the RENREN project will make a joint dissemination through a seminar in Brussels. The objective is to show how these two projects are very complementary:  on the one hand in the European territory - covering almost all Europe;  and on the other hand at the different policy levels (local authorities with the help of different experts) and regional and national policy.

Details about the seminar will soon be available on the EUSEW website: http://eusew.eu/energy-days-europe 

Tech News

New impetus for Smart Homes

After the events in Fukushima the concept of "Smart Homes" is given a new impetus in Japan. Toyota, Nissan and Honda will soon be in the realisation of large-scale tests, where the houses have a partly autonomous power supply with intelligent power control. Electric cars are an important component in the smart home concept. In an intelligent system the power exchange between home and car battery should be possible. The batteries are intended to serve as an energy buffer to compensate energy fluctuations and store the power temporarily at night. The required energy is produced by solar plants, small combined heat and power units (CHP) or in-house fuel cells. In the event of a power outage, the battery of the car could supply the household with electricity for some time. A central computer controls the flow of energy in the model house and thus avoiding an overload. On the PC, the television screen or the smartphone you can request the energy status of the house and the charge status of the electric car. E.g. if the charge of the battery must be interrupted because of an overloading of the electricity network in the house, the residents will get a message via e-mail or SMS.

7.  RETS in Europe

RETS dissemination

10^th November 2011: International Conference “Energy efficiency in Architecture and Construction” in Maribor

On 10^th of November 2011, The Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Maribor and The Association of building engineers and technicians organised an international conference “Energy efficiency in Architecture and Construction”. At the conference, Vlasta Krmelj gave a presentation entitled "The use of information and communication technologies for the processing of the energy state of the building as a basis for sanitation schemes". She also presented there the RETS project. Energap placed during the seminar an exhibition stand and posters from RETS.

22^th November 2011: Presentation of RETS Project at Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Štajerska (Slovenia)

Maribor Economic Association and the Association of Engineering Societies Maribor together with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Štajerska organised a consultation where the economic development strategy of Maribor was discussed. Vlasta Krmelj gave a presentation entitled "The Strategy of efficient use of renewable energy resources in Maribor", where she presented the project RETS.

8^th December 2011: International Renewable Energy Exhibition ENERGAIA in Montpellier (FRANCE) (20 participants)

Presentation by Catherine Ledig of the RETS project to the IMEDER network, the Mediterranean Institute for Renewable Energies, which federates the key players and project managers from both sides of the Mediterranean in order to extend the use of renewable energies in these countries.

8^th December 2011: Presentation of RETS Project at workshop on Natural Gas Cogeneration, Maribor (SLOVENIA)

Economic interest association for gas distribution (GIZ-DZP) together with the Energy Efficiency Centre at Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana organised a workshop on Natural Gas Cogeneration. During the workshop, the functioning of cogeneration of heat and power (CHP) with natural gas was presented with the modern marketing and technological trends in this area. A presentation of the RETS project was given by Energap. The workshop  ended with a guided tour on the ground operating cogeneration at The Institute of Public Health in Maribor.

12th December 2011: "32nd Observatoire Alsace Europe : Research and Innovation in Alsace - State of the art and perspectives of a region in the heart of Europe" at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France)

The RETS project was presented by the coordinator Alison Garnier-Rivers to the participants of this annual event hosted by the Bureau Alsace at the European Parliament in Strasbourg which included 3 Euro MPs, all alsatian local authorities, representatives of research and innovation in Alsace including the President of the University of Strasbourg. An accompanying folder was also prepared on Reseach and Innovation in Alsace and includes a factsheet on the RETS project. This folder is avaliable in French and it will be also soon published in English.

Contributors

Catherine LEDIG (ADEC)
Alison GARNIER-RIVERS (ADEC)
Margarida SILVA (ADEC)
Jon FAIRBURN (IESR, Staffordshire University)
Holly HOAR (IESR, Staffordshire University)
Paulo FARINHA LUIS (Município da Sertã)
Markus BAUER (IHK Zetis GmbH)
Maria RUGINA (ICEMENERG)
Anca BADEA  (ICEMENERG)
Han HOOGMA (Sittard-Geleen Municipality)
Simona TEKAVEC (Energap)
Vlasta KRMELJ (Energap)

Photo credits  RETS consortium