Objective
SESA will facilitate a structured co-development process, which starts with the co-development of energy access innovations that have a high potential for take-up and are tested, validated and later replicated. Each technology will be demonstrated in the living lab, and a corresponding information and training package is created. Each of the living lab team will consist of technology experts, local implementation partners (members of the consortium) along with local authorities (associated partners) and innovators (recruited through the seed-funding call), guided by business development, finance and policy experts. Demonstration actions will aim to test innovative technologies and services in different contexts that have a high level of replicability and a high potential for long-term sustainability. The project aims to achieve a high level of replicability of actions. As part of an effort to go beyond the state of the art and maximise the project?s impact, the project will co-develop innovations with local partners and cooperate closely with sister projects to exploit synergies. Solutions that will be tested in this project have been selected on their basis of their replication potential. Demonstration concepts aim to integrate several solutions to provide essential energy services to rural and urban communities and create easily replicable business opportunities for local entrepreneurs. The co-developed demonstration actions will be initially tested in the Kenya living lab and based on the initial learnings, various aspects of the tested innovations will be validated in living labs in different socio-economic operating environments (Ghana, South Africa, Malawi and Morocco). The learning from the validation living labs will strengthen the applicability and replicability of the technologies as well as the basic business concepts, which will be shared in the SESA toolbox and incubator programme.
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Call for proposal
H2020-LC-GD-2020-1
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
Germany
Participants (29)
9220 Aalborg
AK643 4443 Kumasi
2007 Kjeller
371 79 Karlskrona
Dar Es Salaam
D02ND6 Dublin
43150 Benguerir
0000 Lilongwe
53113 Bonn
7441 Cape Town
10623 Berlin
08225 Terrassa
512 52 Svenljunga
06006 Badajoz
6001 Port Elizabeth
9000 Windhoek
104 51 Stockholm
1783 Halden
80801 Munchen
1019 GW Amsterdam
501 15 Boras
20009 Donostia/san Sebastian (Gipuzkoa)
Kigali
2800 Kgs Lyngby
00100 Nairobi
00100 Nairobi
10437 Berlin
2087-00603 Nairobi
42103 Wuppertal