Descripción del proyecto
Centros regionales de excelencia para facilitar la transición hacia la descarbonización
El proyecto COALition, financiado con fondos europeos, se lleva a cabo en tres regiones intensivas en carbono, a saber: Macedonia Occidental (Grecia), Centro (Rumania) y el sureste de Bulgaria. El equipo del proyecto establecerá un centro de excelencia en cada región y su objetivo es brindar apoyo en materia de investigación e innovación, iniciativa empresarial y reciclaje/mejora de las competencias de la mano de obra afectada, como parte de una iniciativa europea para fortalecer la excelencia regional en innovación en ecosistemas de innovación «in situ» mediante la colaboración transfronteriza en torno a una estrategia común y junto con cadenas de valor añadido. Dado que las regiones participantes están ubicadas en el corazón de ecosistemas en transición, los retos y las oportunidades se abordarán teniendo en cuenta el contexto y las posibles sinergias con el Fondo de Transición Justa para, de este modo, aumentar el nivel de innovación y apoyar financieramente la excelencia en sectores relacionados con la energía sostenible.
Objetivo
Energy efficiency, Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Storage/Batteries, Hydrogen, Efficient Buildings, climate neutrality, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonization of industries & coal regions are in the heart of European Policies for the new programming period (ie. Green Deal, EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan, Twin Industrial Transition etc.). Many financial instruments have been setup to support these objectives that have a common denominator in sustainable energy. EU alliances across the value chains (ie. EBA), IPCEIs (ie. Descarbonization & Hydrogen, Batteries) and Research & Policy Platforms (ie. Coal Regions in Transition), are dedicated to facilitate the advancement of R&I in the field through the collective effort of EU members, and enable the transformation of EU regions to climate neutral, thriving economies.
This context finds a lot of countries striving to comply, especially challenging those that traditionally have economies heavily dependent on fossil fuel mining and exploitation; a major shift has to be done in a short amount of time, putting at risk the balances in the local economies and making years-long expertise and well-established skills become obsolete. COALition intends to strengthen the regional innovation ecosystems in coal-depended areas through the creation of regional excellence hubs and the definition of a joint strategic agenda for sustainable energy so as to facilitate their transition in a just and inclusive way. The regions have been carefully selected (Western Macedonia - GR, Centru - RO, Southeastern - BG) among the under transition EU states that are also characterized as widening, in an attempt to maximize the long-term impact of the joint R&I strategy that will be developed within the project, as those territories are about to amass large amounts of funding and COALition aims to create multiplier effects in the given investments by attracting and mobilizing external investments.
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