Geo-Energy for the XXIst Century
GEO-ENERGY EUROPE

Summary and objectives

The overarching purpose of the GEO-ENERGY EUROPE project is to create a European Strategic Cluster Partnership (ESCP) with a focus on the sustainable use of the subsurface for energy, or “Geo-Energy”, as well as to develop, & propose an implementation roadmap for, a joint internationalisation strategy to help this ESCP go international (ESCP-4i), as encouraged by the COSME call for projects “Clusters Go International” (COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01), and more specifically Strand 1a of the call. Building such a strategic partnership would help create a sort of European label for export opportunities and cooperation in know-how and technology transfer with third countries.

The detailed specific objectives of the project are the following:

• Foster trans-national partnership building, favouring mutual learning and sharing of resources, cross-pollination between countries & industry sectors, skill & technology transfer towards emerging industries such as deep geothermal, CCS & the geological storage of energy (other than hydrocarbon).
• Map skills, products & services of partners’ member SMEs and identify complementarities and cross-sectorial technology and skill transfer opportunities to consolidate value chains & allow complete offers in calls for tenders. Analyse & prioritize research, development & innovation (RD&I) needs across the concerned industrial sectors in Europe & worldwide. Enrich the industrial offer through valorisation of past & current RD&I projects’ results and creating new partnerships for future projects.
• Create a Partnership Agreement to formalize and sustain the partnership in the mid to long term, with a view to expand in geographic and thematic scope.
• Map, assess and prioritize high potential geo-energy markets in Europe and around the globe, and more specifically the deep geothermal energy markets to start with.
• Develop a joint internationalisation strategy to access prioritized third country markets.
• Design an implementation roadmap to facilitate the internationalisation of SME members, and get started with the associated action plan.
• Use existing tools (ECC platform) &/or create dedicated communication material and capacity building tools to disseminate knowledge and promote the know-how, products & services of participants’ member SMEs.