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General Information
The date when the cluster organisation was established: 
Friday, 22 December, 2006
Number of staff in the management team of the cluster organisation : 
6-10
Legal form of the cluster organisation: 
Registered Association
Regions: 
Aquitaine
Membership to European Strategic Cluster Partnerships (ESCP-4i, ESCP-S3 or ESCP-4x): 
GEO-ENERGY EUROPE
Membership to other networks/partnerships: 
Cluster Management Team: 
NameSurnamePositionTelephoneEmail
Jérôme
Porfirio
Cluster Manager
+33 564 171 533
jerome.porfirio@pole-avenia.com
Emmanuelle
Piron
ECCP Responsible Person
+33 677 520 115
emmanuelle.piron@pole-avenia.com
Marine
Moncourier
Other
+33 564 171 534
marine.moncourier@pole-avenia.com
Link to team description on the cluster's website: 
http://www.pole-avenia.com/eng/lequipe/
Languages spoken: 
English
French
Sectoral and Industrial Focus
Sectoral Industries: 
Electric Power Generation and Transmission
Environmental Services
Technology fields: 
Carbon capture and energy
Liquid fossil fuel
S3 EU priority areas: 
Power generation / renewable sources
Eco-innovations
Emerging industries: 
Blue Growth Industries
Environmental Industries
Areas of specialisation of the cluster not covered above: 
Geothermal energy, Geological storage, Hydrogen
Composition of the cluster
Total number of members: 
200
Number of SME members: 
130
Number of start-ups among SME members: 
25
Number of larger company members: 
20
Number of research organisations/universities/technology centres: 
45
Number of other ecosystem actors : 
20
Link to the cluster members’ list: 
http://pole-avenia.fr/
Entrepreneurship and scale-up support facilities in the cluster's ecosystem (see "Organisation type"): 
Organisation/Facility NameOrganisation/Facility TypeWebsite
GEOSTART
Incubator
http://www.pole-avenia.com/geostart/
Name and link of major players: 
NameWebsiteType
TOTAL
http://www.total.com/en
Larger Company
STORENGY
https://www.storengy.com/en/
Larger Company
CGG
http://www.cgg.com/en/Home
Larger Company
VALLOUREC
http://www.vallourec.com/EN/Pages/default.aspx
Larger Company
SCHLUMBERGER
http://www.slb.com/
Larger Company
ES GEOTHERMIE
http://www.es-geothermie.fr/
SME
TEREGA
https://www.terega.fr/en/
SME
Cluster Strategy
Mission/Objectives: 

POLE AVENIA's mission is to stimulate innovation, initiate collaborative research projects between industry & academia, help its members to grow, get more competitive and go international so as to create economic value & employment

POLE AVENIA's summarized strategy is :1 ambition: to promote the subsurface component in the energy mix, 2 strategic axes: to develop technologies for subsurface applications (1) & to promote technology and skill transfers (2), on 3 application markets: Upstream Oil & gas (E&P), Geothermal energy, Geological storage (natural gas, CO2, energy)

Do you have a formalised strategy?: 
Yes
Link: 
http://www.pole-avenia.com/eng/les-financeurs/
Do you have a specific strategy focus that addresses internationalisation ?: 
Yes
Link: 
http://www.thoms.fr/fr
Services
Support services provided: 
Internationalisation support (= Access to third countries markets)
Access to public support (regional/national programmes, innovation vouchers, etc.)
Facilitation of collaboration between members
Periodic Information dissemination
Details of support services: 

See chart with all services at http://www.pole-avenia.com/services/

More specifically:

- Access to public funding through project labeling and advise in project construction

- Innovation clubs (http://www.pole-avenia.com/eng/club-dinnovation/), BtoB convention to facilitate collaboration between members and stimulate emergence of RD&I projects

- Periodic information dissemination via a business & technology intelligence platform & bimonthly bulletins: http://www.pole-avenia.com/eng/geoscopie/

- Facilitation of cross-sectorial cooperation & support of technology transfer within our innovation clubs and through one major annual event since 2015: 2015 was with the aerospatial/aeronautics sector, 2016 with ICT and a focus on big data, 2017 with the mining and nuclear waste storage industries (http://www.pole-avenia.com/eng/club-geosciences-march-16th-2017/)

- Internationalisation support with collaborative business platform thoms.fr: http://www.thoms.fr/fr and annual BtoB convention: https://www.b2match.eu/rdvgeosciences2017

- Access to technology services through membership of a number of technology centres and a dedicated service to facilitate access to test facilities (http://www.pole-avenia.com/eng/10332-2/)

 

Cooperation Activities
International Cooperation
The main countries targeted by the cluster organisation: 
Algeria
Kenya
Mexico
Senegal
United Arab Emirates
Our cluster organisation undertook the following international activities to support our members: 
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairs
Trans-national Cooperation
The main countries targeted by the cluster organisation: 
Belgium
Germany
Ireland
Norway
Spain
Our cluster organisation undertook the following trans-national activities to support our members: 
Support to collaborative activities/etc.
Which clusters do you collaborate with?: 
EGEC, Europe
Geoscience Ireland
GEOPLAT, Spain
GeoEnergy Celle, Germany
GEODEEP, France
CAPES, Hungary
JESDER, Turkey
TECTERRA, Canada
COSVIG, Italy
Support Programmes
Participation in Funded Support Programmes: 
European ProgrammesProject NameLinkName & Description (Regional/National)Link (Regional/National)
CIP/COSME

GEO-ENERGY EUROPE - Geo-Energy for the XXIst Century

www.geoenergyeurope.com

Clusters Go International - COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/cosme/calls/cos-clusint-2016-03-01.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01/1/1/1/default-group&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0/default-group&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0/de
Promotion
Success Story / Achievements: 

POLE AVENIA went from 51 mostly academic members in 2012 to over 200 members in 2019, of which 130 are companies (2/3) - 15 larger groups or medium size & 115 SMEs

Since it was labelled as a "competitiveness cluster" by the French government in 2010, POLE AVENIA has supported over 120 collaborative RD&I projects, about 65 of which have been granted public funding, representing a cumulative budget of close to 165 M€ and a cumulative public funding of 70 M€.

In 2016, POLE AVENIA inaugurated the first ever start-up incubator dedicated to geoscience & subsurface energy in France, called GEOSTART in 2016 - which currently hosts 6 start-ups in Pau, southwest France, where the cluster is located. The cluster hosted its first international BtoB convention with delegations from Norway (guest country), Ireland and Belgium, and launched a collaborative business platform called THOMS to help its members, more specifically the SMEs, to jointly access international markets.

Why should partners choose you for cooperation?: 

We are a very dynamic & highly reactive cluster. We represent 100 SMEs, 15 large groups and medium size companies from the whole value chain of upstream oil & gas, deep geothermal and geological storage industries, 40 research & training organisations & 20 other ecosystem actors. We are action oriented, we know our members very well and want to help them go international, extend their network, create new partnerships and in the end get more competitive.