Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster
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European Programmes | Project Name | Link | Name & Description (Regional/National) | Link (Regional/National) |
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FP7 H2020 CIP/COSME INTERREG EIT KICs | VIDA - Value-added Innovation in fooD chAins (2018-2020): co-funded by the H2020-INNOSUP-01-2017 call, the project will start its activities in early Spring 2018. VIDA project is formed by ten partners, eight of them mature Clusters based in six European countries that gather together 700 European SMEs in the food-water-energy-KET sector. VIDA proposes to create a favour framework to link and match SMEs, exploit emerging business opportunities and tackle the current and future innovation challenges in food value chains. NeSSIE - North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy (2017-2019): co-funded by EMFF (call: Blue Technology - transfer of innovative solutions to sea basin economies), project NeSSIE will tap into the existing knowledge of anti-corrosion technology / novel materials solutions in the maritime sector supply chain to develop demonstration projects for offshore renewables in the North Sea. The corrosion solutions, when developed and commercialised, will provide global growth and job creation opportunities in remote regions in the EU. COS-CLUSTER-2014-3-04 (2015) - Qualified but not co-funded: The project International Cleantech Network Clusters for Excellence (ICN4E) will serve as a common platform for cluster excellence among 5 European clusters who have already established a high level of trust and strategic cooperation through the International Cleantech Network (ICN). LE2C will partecipate as a parter at Benchmarking of Cluster Excellence activities, Cluster Manager Training, Improving SME services and dissemination activities ( FP7 - Regions Of Knowledge - European Funding (2013-2014): LE2C is one of the cluster subject of the Coolsweep Project. The project aimed at comparing 5 European clusters regions in the waste to energy sector for developing an integrated Action Plan. Euroimpresa Legnano (EU-IMP) , as cluster organization of LE2C, is the official partners of the projectwith a budget of 323.150 euro. As WP2 Leader, it has conducted the clusters swot analysis. Call for expression of interested issued by the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (2013): LE2C is part of the ICN European Cluster Strategic Partnership. The ICN ECSP was constituted with the aim to foster SMEs internationalisation, beyond Europe, with the development of the joint international strategy, which involes ICN cluster members. | coolsweep.org | Call for Consolidation and Development of Regional Technology Cluster by Lombardy Region (2016-2017): 50% cofinancing rate for the support of consolidation, further development and intercluster activities Call for Regional Clusters by Lombardy Region (2014-2015): Grant of €50.000/year for the start-up and implementation of Regional Technology Clusters activities. RIDITT Programme – Ministry of Economic Developemnt - national funding (2012) In the framework of ETICO project, LE2C firms were involved in training programmes with the scope of providing exchange of know how and competences between enterprises and universities. The final aim of the project was to foster product and process innovation in SMEs, in order to increase their competitiveness, and to start up new entrepreneurial inititives thanks to the cooperation between business the research world. LE2C received a co-funding of 50.000 euros. |
From Supply Chain to Value Chain
The project started with a big effort and a complex work of the cluster organisation by mapping all the companies to identify each role among the supply chain in the power generation field. The mapping methodology used, which was considered by other clusters/international actors as best practice, consisted in different steps:
- The choice of boundaries: first identifying the productive system, second identifying the enterprises and the production system’s structure and third classifying them in a pyramid of:
- Classification of the enterprises by market areas and commissions: classifying them in market areas of the cluster (for example Nuclear Power Plants, Renewable Energy, Hydraulic and Geothermal Power Plants, etc.)
- Organisation of the companies in working groups/ Commissions: space where common interests and needs of the enterprises are developed for the implementation of joint projects, thanks to the consistency in terms of clients, product and technologies.
- Subdivision of the market areas of the conventional power plant and waste-to-energy and biomass plant in different islands: services and products which characterise the different plants (boiler island, turbine, BOP, treatment and distribution island), in order to identify the joint potentials of the companies.
The final objective is to promote the single supplier to think less in terms of single components’ cost and more in terms of finished product’s cost. The result of this process is that now the companies can offer together a complete package to the clients, also on a turnkey basis.
For that reason we can say that the Energy Cluster is moving form a supply chain a value chain: the companies members, thanks to the sharing of knowledge, know – how and the Technology Integration fostered by the cluster, can offer an innovative offer characterised by more high quality in terms of technological components and less costs.
They become stronger and more competitive because:
- They operate in an organized network which facilitates communications throughout the entire chain in order to optimize services and final costs.
- They increment their skills thanks to the knowledge shared over the entire production process by uniting competitiveness and cooperation.
- They can exploit advantages deriving from relations with institutions, the world of research, centres of excellence and big clients.
LE2C STRENGHTS:
The Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster (LE2C) is the beating heart of Italian excellence in the energy sector, with over one hundert companies, generating €23bn and employing 31,000 people across the entire Region.
- Located in Lombardy Region, one of the "4 Motors for Europe" region; second region for Energy production.
- Collaboration between SMEs and Large companies, also intersectorial.
- Able to cover the entire supply chain for the conventional, waste to energy and biomass power plants
- Excellent cluster organization: Gold Certification
- Relevant international presence: 70% of members export covering 98 countries