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General Information
Programme: 
2014-2020 INTERREG VB Danube
Project duration: 
Wednesday, 1 August, 2018 to Saturday, 31 July, 2021
Project website: 
http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/danube-energy
Total budget: 
€1.864.354
EU Contribution: 
€1.584.700
Partnership Composition: 
Organisation nameFunctionCountryWebsite linkECCP linkIs Cluster Organisation ?
InnoEnergy
Coordinator
Germany
http://www.innoenergy.com/
No
Cleantech Bulgaria
Communication
Bulgaria
http://cleantech.bg/
Cleantech Bulgaria
Yes
Civitta Slovakia
Partner
Slovakia
https://civitta.com/
No
ABC Accelerator
Partner
Slovenia
https://abc-accelerator.com/slovenia/
No
Optimizacija
Partner
Croatia
No
E-KLASTR Czech Republic
Czech Republic
http://www.e-accelerator.cz/
No
Startup Transilvania Center
Romania
http://www.startuptransilvania.ro/
No
SEE ICT
Serbia
http://www.startit.rs/
No
European Initiatives Center
http://www.iardi.org/partners/tsentr-evropejskyh-initsiat
No

About the Project

Danube Energy+ tackles the need for change in regional ecosystems to support Young Innovators in transforming their disruptive ideas into ventures. The project´s general objective is to create an enabling environment, which will support Young innovators to pioneer a change in the energy efficiency area by setting up highly innovative startups in the Danube macro-region.

Danube Energy+ ecosystem Package as an innovative learning system for key regional ecosystem actors will be developed by using learning interaction among project partners and inclusive design process involving:

  • regional public administrations,
  • universities,
  • SMEs ,
  • business supporting actors.

It is uniquely composed of two main elements – (1) best practices, models and experience in identification and motivation of individual Young Innovators in regional ecosystems and their connection to ecosystem actors, and (2) developed Danube Energy+ Tool as a pre-acceleration learning scheme for Young Innovators boosting their competences to start successful ventures.

The learning system will be piloted in 9 countries involving 90 key regional ecosystem actors and 90 Young innovators enabling improvement of regional ecosystem actors´ knowledge. 

To ensure regional and transregional level sustainability and transferability, regional Danube Energy+ Hubs will be created in close cooperation of regional public administrations and Regional Alliance members based on regional Action Plans and Transregional Hubs´ Strategy including the transferability plan to other regions. 

9 project partners and 7 associated strategic partners as key strategic cooperating bodies with regional public administrations will join Danube Energy+ project to create a unique partnership based around core expertises needed: work with Young innovators in regional ecosystems; pre-acceleration programmes development and running; cooperation with regional stakeholders, Hubs creation and operations and regional policy sustainability and support.

 Danube Energy+ falls under the Priority line "Innovative and socially responsible Danube region" with the Specific objective to Increase competences for business and social innovation.

Achievements

So far, a number of milestones have been reached, including:

  • the development of the Danube Energy+ Tool - pre-acceleration learning scheme for Young Innovators,
  • the active and  involvement of over 90 regional stakeholders during Regional Alliance meetings,
  • the dissemination of project activities and results to over 30 national and local media outlets and thus, to thousands of readers and listeners,
  • the dissemination of project Newsletters to over 650 relevant regional and transnational representatives of the defined target groups.

Furthermore, a number of synergies are being pursued throughout the project, for example, the organization of the first International Danube Enegy+ Day in January 2020 jointly with LEARNTEC - one of the largest cofnerences on digital learning and innovation in education in Europe.