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 (Versión en español abajo)

In June, Finnova had a busy month of sustainable energy events, workshops, conferences, meetings and round tables under the umbrella of the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), which was promoting Energy Days throughout the month.

The weeks before, during and after the official EUSEW hosted (13-17 June) focused events in which Finnova participated or organised  in Brussels, Madrid, Valencia, Cadiz and Berlin. These events covered technical sessions, innovation forums, entrepreneurial events, and also targeted both corporate and public administration sectors.

“Participating in EUSEW has been also a recognition of the 4-years-old StartUp Europe Accelerator of Finnova, which brings European Commission programmes and resources to StartUps and entrepreneurs, focused on fostering innovation projects; especially in the areas of renewable energies, eco-innovation, social-innovation, Tech-based or ICT solutions”, remarked Juan Manuel Revuelta, Director General of Finnova.

EUSEW, an initiative of the European Commission, is the month-long annual series of activities across Europe, promoting secure, clean and efficient energy, and connecting policymakers, stakeholders and citizens to achieve climate and energy goals for the Energy Union.

“Finnova through the participation in EUSEW has gained access to a wide and captive audience in order disseminate the benefits and opportunities promised by the NOBEL GRID Horizon 2020 project, in which we are partners”, stressed Sharam Yalda, Head of Regenerative Business Innovation & Climate Change of Finnova.

Two Energy Days organised by Finnova in June, one in Brussels together with Partenalia: “Best Practices on Energy projects under the EU Framework Programmes” and other in Valencia together with Diputación de Valencia and AVAESEN: “European funding for a sustainable future”. 

During both events NOBEL GRID was presented to show how it will contribute in the Energy Union and improve Smart Grids.

The H2020 project also participated in the EUSEW Policy Conference “New Standard for Smart appliances in the smart home” the 16th June in Brussels. The aim of this seminar was to disseminate how smart appliances using a shared model of consensus, so called SAREF (Smart Appliances REFerence), and dedicated software applications may contribute to promoting more sustainable energy use in households and neighbourhoods.

There it created synergies and showcased its new Smart Meter designed to implement many additional functions comparing with current smart meters such “flexibility in adding new features during its lifetime, including unforeseen ones. One such unforeseen aspect is the challenge to map existing demand response features on the new SAREF ontology” explained Mihai Sanduleac, R&D Director of ECRO SRL (partner of the project).

Furthermore, European bodies shown great interest in Finnova energy initiatives at the Startup Europe Summit 2016 in Berlin 9-10 June. Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, and the President of the Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula, both found out NOBEL GRID project and the StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEUA16).

In Madrid Finnova attended to the Energy and Environment International Trade Fair of Madrid (GENERA) to met the main scientific and technological advancements in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency, and especially with Rafael Apraiz, CEO of the Spanish Technical Association for Waste Management and Environment (ATEGRUS).

“Nowadays waste concerns energy”, stated Rafael Apraiz, since some alternative energy companies are developing new ways to recycle waste by generating electricity from landfill waste and pollution.

Moreover, representatives of overseas projects in the field of hydropower shared with Finnova their knowledge and best practices like ITAIPU Binacional in Paraguay and Brazil, the world’s largest generator of renewable clean energy, and Renace Project of Multinversiones in Guatemala, a hydropower project to benefit the country by supporting social development and sustainability. 

In Cadiz, Finnova participated in a successful workshop on Environment and Energy: EU Funding, to bring EU energy initiatives and
opportunities closer to entrepreneurs.

Month-end closing took place at the 5th Annual Conference InnoGrid2020+ the 27-28 June in Brussels, where knowledge, views and best practices were shared with other expertises within the smart grids and the digital market fields and NOBEL GRID exhibited its poster.

Sunday 19th June, the organiser committee of the StartUp Europe Awards presented this initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova in close collaboration with StartUp Europe. The stand counted on the visit of the Head of Sector of StartUp Europe from the European Commission, Isidro Laso, who call for local organisers to join the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance. In a really enjoyable environment located in the Place d’Espagne in the centre of Brussels (Belgium), entrepreneurs could access to information of the StartUp Europe Awards and also about the programmes led by Finnova, such as StartUp Europe Accelerator and the project Nobel Grid, for which the Foundation Finnova is partner.

Organiser Committee of the StartUp Europe Awards with Isidro Laso from the StartUp Europe Sector.

If you want to join this EU movement, do not hesitate and join us in the StartUp Europe Awards.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElVQMmKohbI

Brussels, 21^st June 2016

The general director for the Foundation Finnova, Juanma Revuelta, the leader organiser of StartUp Europe Awards, has presented this initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented with the support of the StartUp Europe, in the energy day on Best Practices on Energy projects held in Partenalia’s premises.

Juanma Revuelta, director general for Finnova, presenting StartUp Europe Awards in the energy day held in Partenalia

This action, which is currently in phase of development, aims at rewarding the startups across Europe and also gathering all the startups awards organisers held in Europe under the umbrella of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance. This Alliance already counts on members such as Zincshower or Bank of Ireland StartUps Awards.

Video news: https://youtu.be/CsmAL43cKJU 

The energy day organised by Partenalia aimed at discussing the best practices for energy projects in the Horizon 2020. In the session, several project officers and project coordinators explained how to manage efficiently projects on energy.

Group picture of the speakers at the Energy Day held in the premises of Partenalia. From left to right, Nicholas Reynes, Coordinator for Partenalia Office, Ana Nava, Energy Project Officer for Finnova, Manuel Serrano, Head of New Technologies of ETRA, Jan de Pauw, Project Coordinator of Eco Power, Catherine Pinet and Raymond Charlier, coordinator and technical coordinator of Bricker project, and Juanma Revuelta, General Director for Finnova.

The projects presented in this energy day were:

The Province of Liege’s energy efficiency policy – FP7 – BRICKER: Total Renovation Strategies for Energy Reduction in Public Building Stock

NOBEL GRID Project H2020 “New Cost-efficient Business Model for flexible Smart Grids”

BESOS Project “Building Energy Decision Support Systems for Smart Cities”

NOBEL GRID, is a project in which the Foundation Finnova is partner, and that will provide advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart Grid and retail electricity market in order to ensure benefits from cheaper prices, more secure and stable grids and clean electricity.

The results of the project will be tested in real conditions in five different electric cooperatives and non-profit demonstration sites in five EU members’ states:

The electric cooperative of Alginet (Spain)

The renewable energy cooperative Ecopower in Flanders (Belgium) acts as renewable generator and supplier cooperative.

The cooperative Carbon-coop in Manchester (UK).

The public DSO ASM Terni (Italy).

Meltemi eco-village (Greece).

If you missed it and you want to learn what happened, you can access to it by clicking on the links below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD0Abtda7-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrXlcAvXsM

(SPANISH VERSION)

Finnova será responsable de las actuaciones del proyecto “LcWomen: European network for the integration of the immigrant women at local level”, enmarcado dentro del programa Europa con los Ciudadanos en Bélgica.

De más de 200 propuestas presentadas, LcWomen, presentada por la Concejalía de Fondos Europeos del Ayuntamiento de Elda, ha obtenido la cuarta mejor calificación, y ha sido una de las dos aceptadas por el programa Europa con los Ciudadanos en España. El proyecto ha recibido así una dotación de 142.000 euros, de los que el consistorio de Elda gestionará unos 25.000 euros, cofinanciados al 100%.

LcWomen cuenta con 8 socios de 7 países diferentes: Italia, Eslovenia, Polonia, Grecia, Bélgica, Bulgaria y España. Entre las actividades previstas para llevar a cabo este proyecto, destacan encuentros internacionales, talleres de participación ciudadana a nivel local, actividades de difusión, etc. En este último apartado, Finnova, la fundación para la innovación con sede en Bruselas, jugará un papel primordial siendo el socio encargada de múltiples actividades de comunicación que tendrán lugar en Bélgica.

El proyecto, liderado por el ayuntamiento de Elda y coordinado por Crea360, arrancará en septiembre con unas jornadas que tendrán lugar en Elda, y a la que asistirán socios de los siete países implicados, y finalizará en enero de 2018 en Bruselas, donde se presentarán los resultados de LCWomen.

(ENGLISH VERSION)

Finnova will be responsible for actions of the project  » LcWomen: European Network for the integration of the immigrant women at local level » within the framework of the programme Europe for citizens in Belgium. 

LcWomen, presented by the Council of European Funding from the Hall of Elda (Spain) has obtained the fourth best score among the 200 proposalls presented  to the programme Europe for citizens in Spain. The project has received 142,000 euros of funding, of which the Hall of Elda will co-fund  25,000 euros at 100%.

LcWomen project counts on 8 partners from 7 different countries: Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Greece, Belgium, Bulgary and Spain. Some of the activities to highlight about this project are international meetings and seminars, workshops for citizen participation at local level, dissemination activites, etc. Within the latter, Finnova, the Foundation for the innovation based in Brussels, will play a special role as it is partner in charge of multiple dissemination activities that will take place in Belgium.

The project, led by the Hall of Elda and coordinated by CREA360,will start in September with workshops that will be held in Elda, and to which partners from the seven countries involved in the project will attend. It will come to an end in January 20188 in Brussels, where the results will be presented. 

The platform “Cultural Industries Summit Valencia” promoted by the Association for the promotion of Cultural Projects in close collaboration with Intermedia Fresh Thinking, ad supported by the Spanish Minister of Education, Culture and Sport and Spanish Cultural Action, has joined the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, under the framework of the StartUp Europe Awards.

This is an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by the Foundation Finnova in close collaboration with the StartUp Europe. The goal of this Alliance is the creation of a forum for the interchange of best practices and the networking.

Following this massive goal, StartUp Europe Awards also aims at rewarding the hard work of the startups ruled by European, and based in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Israel and United Arab Emirates in five levels (local, province, regional, national and European) in eight categories (Green, Cities, Creative Industries, Energy, Social Innovation, ICTs, Tourism and Water).

Cultural Industries Summit is a platform created to support the entrepreneurs with projects related to cultural industries, foster the innovative initiatives both culturally and socially, in the sector of collaborative and creative economy. It includes training and accelerating program that will lead to an event in which companies, institutions and professionals dealing with cultural industries, both at national and international level, will participate. In this event, they will select a winner, a second prize and a third finalist selected by the audience. The winner will be candidate for the national final of the StartUp Europe Awards in the category of Creative, thanks to the adhesion agreement of Cultural Industries Summit to the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Cultural Industries Summit thus joins the Zinc Shower, Ateneo Club de Innovación and Business and the Bank of Ireland StartUps Awards who are already members of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, which aims at being a forum for the interchange of best practices and networking among startups all around Europe.

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Cultural Industries Summit Valencia, nuevo miembro de la Startup Europe Awards Alliance 2016

La plataforma “Cultural Industries Summit Valencia” promovida por la Asociación Promotora de Proyectos Culturales en colaboración con Intermedia Fresh Thinking,  apoyada por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y Acción Cultural Española, se ha sumado como nuevo miembro a la Startup Europe Awards Alliance 2016, en el marco de StartUp Europe Awards.

Iniciativa promovida por la Comisión Europea e implementada por la Fundación Finnova en colaboración con StartUp Europe. El objetivo de esta Alianza es incrementar la Tasa de Actividad Emprendedora en la Unión Europea, una tasa que actualmente llega al 8%, según Eurostat.

Siguiendo este máximo objetivo, StartUp Europe Awards también pretende reconocer el duro trabajo llevado a cabo por las startups dirigidas por europeos y establecidas en alguna región de Asia, Europa, Latino América, Israel y Emiratos Árabes Unidos, y Estados Unidos, en cinco niveles (local, provincial, regional, nacional y europeo), en ocho categorías (Medio Ambiente, Ciudades, Industrias Creativas, Energía, Social, Turismo, Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación y Agua).

Cultural Industries Summit es una plataforma creada para apoyar a emprendedores con proyectos relacionados con las industrias culturales, fomentar el espíritu emprendedor y las iniciativas innovadoras tanto cultural como socialmente, en el ámbito de la economía colaborativa y creativa. Incluye un programa de formación y aceleración que culminará en un encuentro en el que participarán empresas, instituciones y profesionales relacionados con las industrias culturales tanto nacionales como internacionales. En este encuentro se elegirá al proyecto ganador, un segundo y un tercer premio, que será elegido por el público. El proyecto ganador de Cultural Industries Summit pasará directamente a la final nacional de los Startups Europe Awards en la categoría Creative, gracias a la adhesión de Cultural Industries Summit a la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Cultural Industries Summit se suma a Zinc Shower, al Ateneo Club de Innovación y Empresa y al Banco de Irlanda quienes ya forman parte de esta alianza, nacida para reconocer el esfuerzo hecho por los organizadores de premios de StartUps en toda Europa y crear sinergias entre esos organizadores para que así puedan incrementar el impacto de los premios que ya existen.

The representative from the leader organiser of StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEUA16), Juan Manuel Revuelta in representation of the Foundation Finnova, presented yesterday this European initiative within the framework of the StartUp Europe Summit. This action, which has been initiated under the umbrella of StartUp Europe, and which counts on the support of the European Commission, aims at gathering all the startups awards organisers in the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, which aims at being a forum for the interchange of best practices and networking for entrepreneurs.  StartUp Europe Awards has also a second goal: to reward the startups based in Europe, Latin America, USA, Asia and Israel and United Arab Emirates, working in cities, creative industries, energy, green, ICTs, social innovation, tourism and water, at five levels (local, provincial, regional, national and European).

This initiative has caught the attention of Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, who has visited the stand of StartUp Europe to learn more about the SEUA16.

On the left Juan Manuel Revuelta, General Director for Finnova, and on the right, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas.

The potential of this action has impressed the President of the Committee of the Regions, Markku Markkula, who paid us a visit in the stand of the StartUp Europe, where Revuelta was presenting the SEUA16.

President of the Committee of the Regions, Marrku Markkula, visits the stand of the StartUp Europe where the General Director of Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta, presented him the StartUp Europe Awards

During his visit to the StartUp Europe Awards information point in the StartUp Europe Summit, Markkula recognised being impressed with this initiative that tries to foster and contribute to the entrepreneurship in the European Union. He also recognised the potential of the SEUA in his twitter account by highlighting the strong potential of the SEUA16.

Tweet by Markku Markkula official twitter account referring to the StartUp Europe Awards 2016

Revuelta also took the opportunity to present the project Nobel Grid in the stand of StartUp Europe, which will provide advanced tools and ICT services to all actors in the Smart Grid and retail electricity market in order to ensure benefits from cheaper prices, more secure and stable grids and clean electricity.  All this happened in the StartUp Europe Summit, an annual Summit in which start-ups from all over Europe, policymakers, investors and companies from the sector of industry participate. It is therefore an event for networking in which the entrepreneurs have also the possibility of attending the StartUp Council of Policy Makers, which dealt on how to increase the interaction between policymakers and entrepreneurs.

After a hard competition –we received several music proposals to be the introduction of the StartUp Europe Awards- Brainiac Beats won this music contest that aimed at finding the best music for the StartUp Europe Awards videos.

Brainiac Beats, also known as El Cerebro in the Spanish music market, is an established music producer, DJ and sound engineer from Almeria (Andalusia-Spain). He has worked with some of the best hip hop artists, not only from his homeland Spain but also from the United States, where he travels to frequently while establishing his brand internationally. He has won several international competitions (beat battles) in the USA and online, and has also landed his music in films, advertisements, etc.

As a DJ he has toured the biggest music festivals in Spain, sharing the stage with countless legendary artists. As a sound engineer, he’s used to work under time-pressure, achieving a pristine, high quality sound, up to commercial standards.

With such a high quality, his music has already been used for our first two videos produced for the StartUp Europe Awards. Here the link to the video in which we announced that Bank of Ireland StartUp Europe Awards was the first British organiser of start-ups awards in becoming member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance: https://youtu.be/sIgEW1rcb20

If you liked it, do not hesitate to follow him on social media and learn more about his music:

https://twitter.com/BrainiacBeats

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Zinc shower, the first Spanish startup awards organiser to become member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Madrid, May 20th 2016. The work carried out by the startup ‘Human Surge’, aiming at improving the quality of the humanitarian aid and civil protection, has been rewarded by the StartUp Europe Accelerator Awards during the meeting show of the Collaborative transformation, Zinc Shower.

For the General Director of Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta, who gave the prize, ‘Human Surge’ “offers a technological solution directly related to the reaction capacity that humanitarian aid mechanisms face when responding to worldwide disasters; undoubtedly, this is an initiative that may have a huge social impact apart from being aligned to social challenges that the EU has identified as priorities”.

Thanks to this award, a team member from ‘Human Surge’ will receive an acceleration process for their start-up in the co-working space owned by Finnova in Brussels. Amongst other benefits, this acceleration programme offers internationalisation of their project, specialised networking in the sector of social innovation, other sources of the EU and access to EU funding, such as the SME instrument of H2020, through mentorization and practical tools.

Furthermore, this award comes along with a nomination for the StartUp Europe Awards 2016, an initiative promoted by the European Commission and implemented by Finnova under the umbrella of the StartUp Europe. Interest in this initiative has also arise in several General Directions, amongst which DG GROWTH and DG CONNECT, related to the entrepreneurship and new technologies and communication networks, respectively, outstand. Several members from the European Parliament and members of the Committee of the Regions have also expressed their interest.

StartUp Europe Awards main goal is rewarding the most innovative European start-ups in 8 categories: Green, social innovation, ICTs, energy, tourism, cities, creative industries and water, and in five levels (local, province, regional, national, and European). Likewise, StartUp Europe Awards aims at rewarding the effort made by the startup awards organisers and entrepreneurs all across Europe, thus providing them with visibility and European scope, and contributing to the internationalisation of SMEs and collaboration.

Within the Zinc Shower event, Finnova has also rewarded other two projects, offering them nominations to the StartUp Europe Awards 2016. Those selected are: Smolph, in the category of Creative Industries (nominated for the Creative StartUp Europe Awards) and Ecoche, in the category of Green (nominated for the Green StartUp Europe Award).

How to apply to StartUp Europe Awards: startups@startupeuropeawards.eu

Zinc Shower, first Spanish startup awards organisers to become member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Zinc Shower has become today the first Spanish member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, which already counts on other members as the StartUp Awards Ireland.

The inclusion of Zinc Shower in the SEA Alliance as member of the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance means an increasing of visibility and potential at European and international level, giving them the opportunity of creating synergies with other organisations that focus their work on the support to the entrepreneurship.

How to join the StartUp Europe Awards Alliance: alliance@startupeuropeawards.eu

Finnova and the case of NOBEL GRID in Zinc Shower.

The Foundation Finnova has played an essential role in Zinc Shower. The Head of Regenerative Business Innovation for Finnova, Sharam Yalda, and the communication officer of StartUp Europe Accelerator, Catalina Valencia, took part in the event highlighting the opportunities for entrepreneurship in the European Union. Thus, the participants got to know the financing tools and the sources from the European Union to support innovative projects, as well as open calls, Fast Track to Innovation, LIFE programme and SME instrument. Likewise, H2020 NOBEL GRID, which is funded with 13,8 million euros, and which goal is to provide advanced tools and ICTs services  to all the actors in the electricity market to guarantee the best prices, more security and stability, was introduced as a model for the transformative innovation.

Nobel Grid as tractor project for entrepreneurship, offers an open platform on which the SMEs and startups can develop innovative applications within the new digital energetic efficiency, renewable energy and net management.

La startup “Human Surge” reconocida en ZINC SHOWER con el premio StartUP Europe Accelerator y una nominación a los “Social StartUp Europe Awards 2016”. Zinc Shower, primer miembro español de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance.

Madrid, 20 de mayo 2016. El reconocimiento a la labor de la startup ‘Human Surge’, cuyo objetivo es mejorar la calidad de la ayuda humanitaria y la protección civil, ha tenido lugar durante el evento de clausura del meeting show de la Transformación colaborativa, Zinc Shower. Para el director general de la Fundación Finnova, Juan Manuel Revuelta, quien hizo entrega del premio, “‘Human Surge’ ofrece una solución tecnológica en línea al reto de la capacidad de reacción a la que se enfrentan los mecanismos de ayuda humanitaria en respuesta a desastres a nivel mundial; y sin duda, se trata de una iniciativa que puede tener un gran impacto social además de estar alineada con retos sociales que ha identificado Europa como prioritarios”.

Gracias al premio StartUp Europe Accelerator, un miembro del equipo de “Human Surge” podrá recibir aceleración para su startup en el espacio de coworking del que dispone Finnova en Bruselas. Entre otros beneficios, este programa ofrece acompañamiento en la internacionalización de su iniciativa, networking especializado en el ámbito de innovación social, otros recursos de la Unión Europea y acceso a financiación UE, como el programa Instrumento Pyme de H2020, a través de mentorización y herramientas prácticas.

Además, este reconocimiento viene acompañado de una nominación a los StartUp Europe Awards 2016 (SEA2016), iniciativa promovida por la Comisión Europea y organizada por Finnova, para destacar la labor de las startups europeas más innovadoras en 8 categorías: medioambiente, innovación social, tecnologías de la información y comunicación, energía, turismo, ciudades, industrias creativas y agua, y en cinco niveles geográficos (local, provincial, regional, nacional y europeo). Asimismo StartUp Europe Awards pretende reconocer el esfuerzo de los organizadores de certámenes para startups y emprendedores en toda Europa, concediéndoles visibilidad y una dimensión europea, y contribuyendo  así a la internacionalización de las pymes y a su colaboración.

El potencial de esta iniciativa que cuenta desde el principio con el apoyo del programa StartUp Europe de la Comisión Europea, ha llegado a despertar el interés de varias direcciones generales entre las que destacan Growth y CONNECT, dedicadas al emprendimiento y a las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación respectivamente, así como de múltiples miembros del Parlamento Europeo y miembros del Comité de las Regiones.

En esta ocasión, Finnova también reconoció a otros dos proyectos presentados en Zinc Shower a los que ofreció nominaciones a los StartUp Europe Awards 2016: Smolph, en la categoría Industrias creativas (nominado al Creative StartUp Europe Award) y  Ecoche en la categoría Medio Ambiente (nominado al Green StartUp Europe Award).

Zinc Shower, primer miembro español de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance

Zinc Shower se ha convertido hoy en el primer miembro español de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance, que ya cuenta con otros miembros como el concurso de StartUp Awards Ireland; gracias a su labor continuada de apoyo a los emprendedores, a través de un evento de referencia que otorga valor a iniciativas emergentes creativas y de otros ámbitos.

El reconocimiento de Zinc Shower como miembro de la StartUp Europe Awards Alliance supone el incremento de su visibilidad y potencial a nivel europeo e internacional, dándole la oportunidad de estrechar lazos con otras organizaciones que centran su trabajo en el apoyo al emprendimiento.

Finnova y el caso de NOBEL GRID en Zinc Shower

Por otra parte, la fundación Finnova ha tenido una destacada participación en Zinc Shower a través de dos charlas ofrecidas por el Jefe de Modelos de Negocios Regenerativos de Finnova, Sharam Yalda y la responsable de Comunicación de StartUp Europe Accelerator, Catalina Valencia. En las charlas se presentaron las herramientas financieras y los recursos de los que dispone la Unión Europea para apoyar a los proyectos innovadores, así como las convocatorias vigentes, Fast Track to Innovation, programa LIFE e Instrumento PYME. Asimismo, fue presentado como ejemplo de innovación transformadora el proyecto H2020 NOBEL GRID,  el cual está dotado con 13,8 millones de euros, y su objetivo es proporcionar herramientas avanzadas y servicios de TIC a todos los actores en el mercado de electricidad para garantizar mejores precios, más seguridad y estabilidad.

Nobel Grid, como proyecto tractor del emprendimiento, ofrece una plataforma abierta sobre la que las PYMES y startups pueden desarrollar aplicaciones innovadoras dentro de la nueva eficiencia energética digital, energía renovable y gestión de redes.