Annual Meeting in Lyon, France 2017 The ICN Annual Meeting hosted by Tenerrdis is approaching quickly and the program for all participants will be distributed by the end of February. In case of any practical questions, please contact Maria at mad@cleancluster.dk or Michel Deflache from Tenerrdis at michel.deflache@tenerrdis.fr
ICN Passport promotion campaign The ICN passport campaign has been quite successful resulting in the Passport being used three times lately, including French and Swedish companies being in contact with the South African market.
Currently, Tenerrdis and the region of Rhône-Alpes is promoted in February, whereas CLEAN will be target of promotion throughout March 2017. For more information about the regional campaign and see which cluster is the next in line, please go here.
Next ICN passport promotion candidate is CLEAN
New intern at the Secretariat Ben Jorgensen, student in sustainability, will be new intern at the Secretariat replacing Filipa Meirelles and starting on 1 March 2017. Maria Dominguez will be continue working part time on ICN-related tasks, including Annual Meeting, until 1 April 2017.
ICN Task Force status
TF Funding
KG DIXHEAT is now well on track being led by Tenerrdis focusing on delivering practical solutions for retrofitting of district heating systems. The application is expected to be delivered to the EU Commission in May/June 2017, with an estimated result in Q3-Q4 2017.
KG COSME will have its second conference call on 20 February, but is still awaiting the official project call from the EU Commission expected late March.
Next KG DIXHEAT takes place on 21 February
Next KG COSME takes place on 20 February
TF C40
ICN Secretariat has now received 37 applications from 6 clusters to the four city pilot challenges in the C40 City Solutions Platform (CSP). The 37 suggested projects will all be included in the ICN Solutions Landscape that is ICNs official input to the CSP by early March. The project group is expected to identify solution providers by a webinar in late March/early April. Next TF C40 takes place on 22 February
C2C
The 3rd TF C2C was held on 16 February with a focus on the newest updates from the clusters’ project portfolio. The meeting resulted in valuable knowledge sharing and new SME possibilities amongst the clusters.
Next TF C2C expected in April 2017
NYC Smart City Expo May 2017 ICN is travelling with a Nordic delegation to NYC Smart Cities Expo on 3-6 May 2017. The event will provide great opportunities to interact with project owners (cities) and solution providers (companies) from the Nordic countries as well as engage with the new cooperation partner Urban Future Lab in New York. All ICN members are invited and a save-the-date + a preliminary program will be distributed to the network shortly.
Cooperation with Sustania ICN has signed a MoU with the think tank "Sustania" in Copenhagen, easing access for SMEs and members of ICN clusters to a new global United Nations digital database promoting sustainable solutions. For more information please read here.
Buyers Event in the Scale-Up Project Interesting “Buyers Events” in conjunction with the Scale-Up project will take place in March and April. For more information, please read here.
CLEAN Clean Solutions
Clean Solutions delivers innovative integrated package solutions for infrastructural projects, energy, water, waste and smart cities. Clean Solutions helps develop the project and ensures the right team of local, Danish and international partners who can drive the process and take responsibility for developing, delivering and implementing comprehensive packages consisting of technology, know-how and financing. Clean Solutions supplies companies with the tools and know-how to deliver complex turnkey projects. If needed, we can also drive the process all the way through from initial idea to the final contract. Read more here. Innovative plastic sorting and reprocessing solution
On January 30th 2017, CLEAN and Copenhagen Municipality published the tender: Innovative plastic sorting and reprocessing solution.
The tender aims to develop an innovative plastic sorting and reprocessing plant. Important requirements for this plant is that it should improve on the current standards so that recycled plastic can be recycled at a price, quality and in a quantity that is actually attractive to companies that use recycled plastic in their production.
CLEAN has gathered 16 contracting authorities consisting of waste companies, municipalities and The Capital Region of Denmark. The project is now in the prequalification face, the companies create consortia with a variety of competencies in order to construct a best of art plant for separation and recycling of plastics. The deadline for application for prequalification is April 18th 2017.
The Information Meeting will take place at Copenhagen S and the invitation can be found here.
The Meet the Buyer event will take place at Copenhagen N and the invitation can be found here.
If you want to know more about CLEANs innovative tender, please visit the project’s website here.
Clean Tech Delta Clean Tech Delta is looking for port innovators
As a cluster established in the region of the largest and most impactful port of Europe, Clean Tech Delta is always seeking for port innovators. Regularly, Clean Tech Delta organizes pitch events with decision makers from the port. Potentially, they can transform the event into a Meet-the-buyer event (see news article Scale-up above), so that travel costs can be reimbursed. If you have members or start-ups/SMEs in your network that are interested in this, please contact:Tara van de Lagemaat.
Écotech Québec "STEAL THE IDEA" - 2 ideas launched by Ecotech Quebec that could be "stolen" by ICN partners around the world:
Ecotech Challenge on Women’s Day : a business case competition, organized by Ecotech Quebec with the Women in Business Association in McGill business school. Students from McGill are invited to work on a real business case of a clean tech company (in this case a company held by a woman CEO) and a panel with female faces of the Quebec cleantech sector will be held during the award ceremony.
Match-making event with the Tourism industry: the United Nations declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. Ecotech Quebec will take this opportunity to organize a match-making event on green Infrastructure, between the Quebec tourism industry and local clean tech entrepreneurs.
Écotech Québec needs your insights: Would you have, in your cluster, specific programs to help companies reach faster commercialization through demonstration projects? Please contact Normand Gadoury, ngadoury@ecotechquebec.com. Écotech Québec is fostering a new initiative called Propulsion aiming to help Quebec-based cleantech companies reach commercialization more rapidly and efficiently. Propulsion will propose strategic coaching, verification standards, help with financing, include potential buyers expectations and efficient promotion. Public, parapublic and municipal instances will be targeted to host the demonstration projects. The initiative will be in a pilot phase for 2017. ATTEND: GLOBE Capital, Toronto, April 4-5, where business and policy decision-makers create solutions for accelerating the investment in infrastructure that is needed to transition to a sustainable world. For more information check here.
GreenCape NHE Launch
New Horizons Energy, a waste-to-energy business focused on revolutionising South Africa’s approach to waste management and the large-scale production of renewable energy, is running a new R400 million waste-to-energy conversion plant in the latest green economy development project in Cape Town. The project, a collaboration between Waste Smart and Clean Energy Africa, is aimed at trying to reduce the amount of waste going to the city’s landfills whilst simultaneously creating jobs. The plant uses 500 tonnes of organic household, municipal, and industrial waste per day, in an anaerobic digestive process, to produce methane, food-grade carbon dioxide, and organic fertilizer. GreenCape played a key role in providing technical support and will work with other municipalities in the province in an attempt to roll out similar projects. More info here. Float Glass Partnership
Simple Active Tactics, a manufacturer and processor of industrial minerals, metals and granular abrasives has recently partnered with four glass producing companies with the help from GreenCape’s WISP team. The company is focussing on sourcing waste float glass from partners and is currently using in the region of 60 tonnes of off-cut and damaged float glass a month. The glass undergoes a crushing and sifting process and is then used in a variety of means providing Simple Active Tactics with a new revenue stream. Agriprotein partners with Christof Group AgriProtein is a waste-to-protein solution provider that uses black soldier fly larvae to process pre- and post-consumer food waste into insect protein. The byproduct is a highly sort after fish protein substitute for the monogastric livestock feed industry. The innovative solution provider has recently announced that it is focused on establishing global partnerships to increase its technology's international foot print and to refine its operations. To this end Agriprotein have partnered with the Austrian based company, and fellow ICN member, Christof Group. The group is a global engineering firm and utility provider. More on Agriprotein here.
Green Tech Cluster Intelligent recycling plant for Malaysia
ANDRITZ MeWa supplies the first automatic recycling plant for refrigerators and electronic scrap to Penang, Malaysia. Starting in the middle of 2017, around 300,000 refrigerators and up to 60,000 tonnes of e-scrap, such as washing machines, household appliances and computers, will be processed there annually. The central element is the QZ 2000 cross-flow shredder, which separates the individual fractions and separates out batteries and capacitors without pollutants. In addition, the encapsulated system ensures that released gases, such as CFCs and pentane, are extracted and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner when processing refrigeration and air-conditioning units. For more information click here. Digital Master Plan for Smart City Graz
A road lighting system that detects conditions of the road surface, traffic volumes, pollution from particulates and the parking availability, sensors that provide information on waste bin levels and measure the water level of rivers: Digital systems are opening up incredible opportunities. To develop this technology further, a digital master plan is being honed to ensure a clear journey towards the Smart City 2050. The roadmap to the green, digital city is being developed as part of the Smart City Tech Lab of the City of Graz, coordinated by the Green Tech Cluster, in cooperation with the world's leading companies CISCO, NTS, IBM etc. For more information click here. New irrigation systems for Brazil In Brazil the Styrian pump specialist Bauer has opened the new "Bauer do Brazil" plant with an area of around 37,000 m2, laying the foundations for an extensive coverage of Brazil with modern irrigation systems. Pivot plants for the irrigation of a total area of 14,000 ha/year as well as Rainstar drum irrigation machines for 5000 ha/year are now being produced in the factory. In a further stage of development, equipment for wastewater, such as separation, pumping and stirring technology, will be manufactured. For more information click here. Innovative room solution for growing cities The new Roofbox from AEE INTEC and its partners is the advanced solution for meeting the growing demand for accommodation space, especially in urban areas. The prefabricated timber room modules can be placed on existing buildings, attached to them or used as an independent, barrier-free house. The room modules are delivered as prefabricated units, together with a photovoltaic system, so they offer distinct advantages in fast construction time. You can currently visit the show site of the company at Haas Fertigbau, in Styria/Austria.
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster Susan Sandford is the new Executive Director In December, Susan Sanford has been hired as the new executive director for the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster (RTCC). Goals for the organization over the next two years include pursuing sites for smart cities demonstrations to showcase innovations developed in the Research Triangle region and marketing the robust cleantech, entrepreneurship community to global markets. Emmit Owens also was promoted to Manager of Business Recruitment and Retention. In addition to the promotions, Matt Abele was hired as the new Communications & Events Manger.
RTCC recently led a delegation of 16 North Carolina energy-focused organizations to attend the DistribuTECH Conference and Expo in San Diego, California. This year's delegation represented a few of the more than 350 cleantech companies and research institutions creating nearly 11,000 recurring jobs and $1.3 billion in recurring investments across the Research Triangle region. RTCC also organized a panel featuring executives from ABB, Duke Energy, and Siemens. The panel also included an International Trade Specialist from the U.S. Department of Commerce to talk about the North Carolina delegation's role within the international energy marketplace.
Sustainable Business Hub Sweden Wisdome
Sustainable Business Hub has signed an agreement with Malmö Museum about the development of Wisdome. The intention is to create a platform for digital interactive experiences using cutting edge technologies. Comprehensive goals of this collaboration are to create opportunities for more people to learn about sustainable urban development, to initiate more collaborations among different actors and to stimulate innovation for the future. For more information please see here. New office
SBHub has moved to new office locations with a green profile at STUDIO in Malmö. In addition to the highest certification in LEED (Platinum) of the office building, SBHub has chosen furniture using clean materials and environment-friendly transport as much as possible, which contributes to the development of a sustainable society. Colleagues from other clusters are welcome to use workspace at our office when you come to Malmö.
Tenerrdis Cluster Management Excellence Tenerrdis has been awarded the Gold Label for Cluster Management Excellence. Congratulations! Events
Tenerrdis has organized a meeting in Brussels for those clusters involved in the District Heating project DIXHEAT in preparation for H2020 call EE2- CSA H2020. Also, the French cluster has hosted a Belgium delegation from Cluster TWEED on Feb 7th and 8th for a two-day visit dedicated to hydrogen energy.
TWEED Event "Waste heat to energy"
TWEED invites all members to join the event "waste heat to energy : focus on Belgium & France". The event will take place on 14 of March in Liège, Belgium. For more information click here.
SMART CITIES NYC ‘17
The International Cleantech Network and the Nordic Delegation “Meet the Nordics” are pleased to invite you to the New York Smart Cities Expo taking place on 3-6 May 2017. In addition to having access to the first Smart City Expo held in New York City, the event will provide great opportunities to interact closely with cities and smart city companies from the Nordic countries. Participants will take part in networking events and meet American business partners, NYC officials, and Urban Future Lab, a NYC based incubator focusing on Smart Cities, Smart Grid and Clean Energy. For more information, please click here.
Scale-up The EU project "Scale-up" facilitates matching and leads between SMEs, start-ups and "hungry" corporates, by organizing "Meet the Buyer events". As a result, the "purchase needs" of the corporates become clear, so that the products and service of the SMEs can be customized for every corporate. The ultimate aim are procurements of innovations. The demand of the corporates for the 2 upcoming events are as followed: 29 march - Mechelen: Companies who have new biodegradable polymers; Companies who have innovative and sustainable ways of generating and storing power. 6 April - Rotterdam: Companies that have new innovative sensor technologies (in: maritime, offshore, flow management and wind); Companies with experience in the processing of sensor data and the ICT structures; A sustainable replacement for hydraulic oil or ways for more efficient usage.
For an elaboration on these purchase needs or if you are interested in joining, please contact Clean Tech Delta. What's more, 50% of your travel costs of start-ups and SMEs can be reimbursed (only start-ups and SMEs from the North Sea region can participate in the travel voucher scheme: United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway).That said, this is a perfect opportunity for your start-ups or middle-large companies to meet buyers abroad!
The Venture 5i is organized by Grenoble-Alpes Metropole in partnership with 13advisory and Minalogic, Lyonbiopole, Tenerrdis, Axelera, Imaginove, CEA, ARDI, bpifrance, Linksium, Pulsalys, Enterprise Europe Network… 5i is looking for innovative Swiss, Italian and French start-ups who seeking investment and would like to present in front of national and international investors and corporations at the upcoming Venture 5i in Grenoble on the 31st May and 1st June, 2017. Why should you apply?
Networking with corporate contacts, VCs & fast-growing companies
Up to 6 private (One2One) meetings with the participants of your choice
Preparation program including a Dry-Run – experienced coaching team will work with the presenters to prepare them for their presentation
