European Leaders of Blue Energy
ELBE PLUS

Summary and objectives

Within this context, ELBE+ aims to contribute positioning Europe as the world technological and industrial leader in Blue Energy. This main goal is further developed into three specific objectives (and sub-objectives), which are:

1. To strengthen European Blue Energy New Value Chain

• To consolidate a true trans-regional European New Value Chain comprising the companies and other agents that are currently within each of the partners’ local value chains.
• To foster clusters & SMEs mutual knowledge, high-level trans-regional cooperation and partnership building among key leading Blue Energy regions in Europe, promoting matchmaking activities that could lead to open innovation spaces.
• To position SMEs into trans-European consortiums to compete and take a leading position globally in the Blue Energy sector.

2. To promote European Blue Energy Internationalisation with key specific actions, as described in the ELBE Internationalisation Strategy

• To develop concrete and useful market reports that provide differential competitive intelligence to European companies, helping them to identify business and internationalisation opportunities in the Blue Energy sector.
• To organise direct missions, reverse missions and other activities that allow ELBE+ partners’ companies to establish first-hand contact with key incumbents in target markets.
• To sign Cooperation Agreements with relevant international associations and clusters in third countries that act as a key partner for gathering intelligence, organising activities and providing soft landing services to European companies.

3. To assure the Long-Term Sustainability of the ELBE+ Alliance

• To strengthen the ESCP-4i by consolidating a common identity and developing joint promotional activities.
• To learn from successful and unsuccessful experiences from other partnerships, in order to improve efficiency and efficacy of ELBE+ initiatives.
• To continuously update the internationalisation strategy to guide the activities of the ELBE+ alliance, identifying new markets and added-value activities.
• To define a financial strategy that guarantees the sustainability of the alliance in the long term.