On 20 May 2025, at the Thon Hotel EU (rue de la Loi 75) in Brussels (Belgium), will take place the public conference Unlocking Low-Carbon Innovation: From Horizon Projects to Market Deployment.
The event will bring together relevant stakeholders from the public and private sectors to discuss best practices and lessons learnt while fostering knowledge sharing. Moreover, the conference will involve industry stakeholders in the process of scaling up R&I results to Innovation Fund (IF) readiness and promote the mobilisation of the financial and technical expertise needed for the elaboration of sound IF proposals.
This public conference is organised by four Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) funded under the topic HORIZON-CL5- 2023-D2-01-07: ‘Support for the deployment of R&I results for climate mitigation. Synergies with the ETS Innovation Fund’. The H2IF, REALIZE, LEADS and 2DPLOY projects tackle different technologies (renewables, Hydrogen and energy storage, Carbon Capture Use and Storage and general low-carbon technologies) but share a common goal: to support Europe’s decarbonisation efforts by bringing promising clean energy technologies closer to market deployment.
AGENDA
8.30 – 9.00 Registration and welcome coffee
9.00 – 9.10 Opening by Jose Jimenez Mingo, European Commission (DG CLIMA)
9.10 – 9.30 Keynote Speech by Maria Velkova, European Commission (DG CLIMA)
9.30 – 10.30 The required elements for successful exploitation of R&I results towards deployment
This session aims at identifying the key factors for the mobilisation of the financial and technical elements needed for the deployment of R&I results from Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe (in particular via the Innovation Fund).
Moderator: Andrea Rausa, Coordinator Eu Funding and Team Leader, Ciaotech (LEADS)
Maria Velkova (DG CLIMA)
David García Arrate, Senior Project Manager – European Funds, Euro-Funding (REALIZE)
Federico Spadaro, Consultant, CLERENS (H2IF)
Kristian Aas, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF (2DPLOY)
10.30 – 11.00 Networking coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 R&I real-life stories
This session will provide overview and analysis/breakdown of existing pool/portfolio of demonstrators (EU-funded Innovation Actions from H2020) and showcase examples of projects that have applied to the IF and/or have been able to successfully scale up R&I results to Innovation Fund.
Moderator: Philip Hawkins, Policy Officer, Low Carbon Solutions (II): Research & Low Carbon Technology Deployment, DG CLIMA
Arne H. Kollandsrud, CEO, Tidetec (TBC)
Athanase Vafeas, Director Associate Partner, Dowel Innovation (online)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Thematic breakout rooms (renewables, hydrogen and energy storage, carbon capture, use and storage, energy intensive industry)
Jan-Erik Hanssen, CEO, 1-Tech (REALIZE)
Andrea Rausa, Coordinator Eu Funding and Team Leader, Ciaotech (LEADS)
Federico Spadaro, Consultant, CLERENS and Maria Mazuera, EU Funding Senior Consultant, CLERENS (H2IF)
Kristian Aas, Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF (2DPLOY)
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 16.45 Complementary funding opportunities
This session will showcase what other funding opportunities are available for industry players and can be combined with the Innovation Fund and other funding programmes (Regional and cohesion funds, Recovery and resilience facility etc.) and will include a debate on the difficulties to find co-funding.
Moderator: Marie Latour, Euro-Funding (REALIZE)
Radu Surdeanu, Senior Director for Government Affairs, Siemens Energy
16.45 – 17.00 Closing Remarks by Stefanie Hiesinger, Head of Unit, European Commission (DG CLIMA)
Register here.
