Danube Energy+

Nine project partners and seven 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 programme development and running; cooperation with regional stakeholders, Hubs creation and operations and regional policy sustainability and support.

• InnoEnergy- Lead Partner/ Germany
• Cleantech Bulgaria Foundation- ERDF partner/ Bulgaria
• ABC Accelerator, d.o.o.- ERDF partner/ Slovenia
• Optimization- ERDF partner/ Croatia
• E-KLASTR Czech Republic a.s.- ERDF  partner/ Czech Republic
• Startup Transilvania Center- ERDF partner/ Romania
• Civitta Slovakia- ERDF partner/ Slovakia
• SEE ICT- IPA partner/ Serbia                                                        
• European Initiatives Center- ENI partner/ Ukraine
• Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency- associated partner/ Slovakia
• Slovene Enterprise Fund- associated partner/ Slovenia
• DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ZAGREB - TPZ Ltd.- associated partner/ Croatia
• Regional Development Agency of Pardubice Region- associated partner/Czech Republic
• iTech Transylvania Cluster part of Romanian Association for Electronic Industry and Software – Transylvania Branch- associated partner/ Romania
• Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications- associated partner/ Serbia
• Sofia Tech Park JSC- associated partner/ Bulgaria

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

The project 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 start-ups. 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.

Young innovators from the Danube macro region can apply for the pilot of the Danube Energy+ Tool while regional public administrations, universities, SMEs and business supporting actors can join the Regional Alliances in each participating country and be  part of the existing  ecosystem. Contact details can be found on the main website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/danube-energy/section/contact

The pilot is planed for  Summer 2020, open call planned for January 2020.

Budget in Euro

Overall: 1864,354

ERDF Contribution: 1,318,195.3

IPA Contribution: 139,729.8

ENI Contribution: 126,775.8