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About Energy2B
Turning ideas into reality
Project Energy2B was an innovation stimulating initiative that targeted university students and encouraged them to turn energy innovation ideas into reality via new business start-ups.
The Energy2B website platform enabled idea competitions at national and European level. Ten local competitions for energy innovation ideas were offered on the Energy2b platform in five European countries (UK, PT, PL, SI and BG). The best energy innovations were selected for boot camp and follow up services given by energy / business planning / investment experts in the five countries. In parallel, 2 European idea competitions were organized, leading to the creation of energy innovations that have the potential to be funded for start-up. Ten of the best energy innovations were showcased at local and European exhibitions and efforts were made to facilitate the transformation of student ideas into “eco energy” innovations.
The project started in May 2009 and ended in April 2012. There are no competitions open for the time being. Project Energy2B was co-funded by the European Commission programme Intelligent Energy Europe.
Achievements
1. Website platform to facilitate local & European idea competitions regarding energy innovations
2. Framework for idea competitions, boot camps and follow-up services for students and database of ideas in the field of energy innovations
3. Students experienced entrepreneurship and creativity regarding ideas in the field energy innovations
4. Students altered their attitude in the field energy saving, renewable energy, energy & environment
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Key indicator |
Energy2B objective |
Energy2B achievement |
|
Energy2B Local Competitions |
10 |
10 |
|
Students joining Energy2B |
1000 |
1565 |
|
Local Competition ideas |
1000 |
1034 |
|
European Competition ideas |
250 |
132 |
|
Entrepreneur Academy attendance |
250 |
225 |
|
Student community (Facebook / Twitter) |
500 |
692 |
|
Experts evaluators |
25 |
67 |
|
Participating/Represented Universities |
25 |
62 |
Project deliverables
D1.2 - Communication protocal to be used by the project partners
D2.1 - Scoping document indicating processes and platform functionalities (1Mb)
D2.2 - Manual for energy challengers and manual for experts
D2.3 - Web platform as service
D2.4 - Manual for local coordinators of the web platform
D3.1 - Evaluation report from pilot phase
D4.1 – Report on Energy Issues Collected from Regional Actors
D4.2 – Limited Midterm Review of the Local Competition
D4.3 - Facts of Local Competitions
D5.1 – Limited Review Document of the BootCamps and follow-up
D5.2 - Entrepreneurial Academies and 2012 Young Entrepreneurial Awards Event in Brussels [download]
D5.3 - Coaching methodology and materials
D5.4 - Student pitches on YouTube (link to YouTube page) and student presentations:
AQUATOP - Ricardo Leandro [download]
Integrated production cycle of biofuels - Jorge Valencia [download]
Unique Live Facade - Ewelina Oleksiak [download]
Savergy - Velin Koychev and Demir Tonchev [download]
WindTurb - Duarte Freitas and Jorge Paulo [download]
Heating Montenegro - Nikola Ninkovik [download]
Food Loop - Tom Stewart [download]
Electrical grid load - Gregor Androjna [download]
Thermocouple Panel - Natalia Arendt [download]
Transformation of heat into Electricity - Stanimira Pesheva [download]
D6.1 – Limited Midterm Review of the European Competition Cycle 1
D6.2 - European Competitions report
D6.3 - Information about 30 business plans
D7.2 - Final Impact Report "Stimulating students’ entrepreneurship in the field of sustainability"
D7.3 - Conference paper of Fletcher, Knol and Janicki in Proceedings of Sutainable Innovation 2010
D7.4 - Case Studies:
Case Study 1 (UK) Canary Reed Grass [download]
Case Study 2 (PL) IDEA Wind Turbine Concentrator and Diffuser [download]
Case Study 3 (SL) Replacement Heating Products [download]
Case Study 4 (BG) Decentralization hybrid solar-wind parks [download]
Case Study 5 (PL) Moveable Solar Panels [download]
Case Study 6 (UK) Integrated Bio-fuel Production [download]
Case Study 7 (PG) Solar Thermal Collector [download]
Case Study 8 (PL) Thermocouple Construction [download]
Case Study 9 (SL) Electrical Grid Customer Control [download]
Case Study 10 (BG) Portable Electricity Pedal Power [download]
D8.1 - Communication & Dissemination plan
D8.2 - Showcase events and annex 1[download] and 2 [download]
D8.3 - Overview Final Conference
D8.4 - Final Report "Stimulating students’ entrepreneurship in the field of sustainability"
D8.5 - Best practices overview (pdf document 9Mb)
D8.6 - Set of press release and Annex
D8.7 - Project leaflet (1.4Mb)
D8.8 - Project poster (the download is a small version of 1.7Mb; the large version is 18Mb and on request available)
D8.9 Newsletters: Newsletter – March 2011, NewsLetter - September 2011, Newsletter - March 2012 English, Newsletter - March 2012 Polish, Newsletter - March 2012 Bulgarian, Newsletter - March 2012 Portugese, Newsletter - March 2012 Slovenian, Newsletter - April 2012 English, Newsletter - April 2012 Polish, Newsletter - April 2012 Bulgarian, Newsletter - April 2012 Portugese, and Newsletter - April 2012 Slovenian
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