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Geoscience Ireland: successful EU COSME application for Geothermal Study

January 11, 2018/in News

Geoscience Ireland (GI) is delighted to announce the commencement of the ‘Geo-Energy for the 21st Century’  (GEO-ENERGY EUROPE) project. This collaborative project is funded by the European Commission’s Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) programme. Pole AVENIA, the French geoscience cluster with which GI signed an MoU in 2017, lead the application and was supported by GI and 6 other European counterparts.

The objective of the project is to enhance – through a transnational cluster – European geo-energy SMEs performance and competitiveness, in all industries which utilise subsurface energy for the project i.e. geothermal energy. The creation of this European Strategic Cluster Partnership (ESCP), coupled with the development and implementation of a roadmap, acts as an internationalisation strategy to help this ESCP go international (ESCP-4i), as encouraged by the COSME “Clusters Go International” call for projects.

COSME runs from 2014 to 2020 with a budget of €2.3bn. The objective of COSME is to support SMEs in four areas:

  • Improving access to finance for SMEs in the form of equity and debt
  • Improving access to markets
  • Improving framework conditions for the competitiveness and sustainability of Union enterprises
  • Promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture

COSME is managed by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) on behalf of the European Commission; the GEO-ENERGY EUROPE project resulted from the COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01 call in early 2017.

The project partners include GeoDeep (French geothermal cluster), the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC), CAPES (Cluster of Applied Earth Sciences, Hungary), Jesder (Turkish Geothermal Association), Geoplat (Spanish Geothermal Technology Platform), and the GEC (German deep geothermal energy group). The project comprises 4 Work Packages and GI is responsible for the “Market & Opportunity Analysis” (WP3) component which involves reviews and assessments of market entry, key skills gaps, competitor assessment, market penetration indicators, and a market and opportunity report.

GI will meet its project partners in Brussels in February (20-22) which also aligns with the broader European Cluster Matchmaking Event. The latter event presents another opportunity to develop stronger links with geoscience companies on the continent with a view towards fostering collaboration and the creation of further opportunities going forward for the export of Irish geoscience services.

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