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Going digital for a sustainable future of cities and regions
As a global megatrend, digitalisation is changing almost all areas of society: our way of communicating and learning, our way of getting around, our way of producing goods and services and our consumption patterns. This brings along an enormous potential...
Save the date! The future climate protectors are getting ready!
Attention teachers and students! On May 27, the project 2IMPREZS from the Interreg North Sea Region (NSR) invites school classes and individual students to exchange ideas about possible energy saving measures in schools. The transnational event with...
Europe’s Digital Decade: Gigabit for everyone, 5G everywhere
On 9 March 2021, the European Commission presented the Digital Compass for the transformation in Europe. This vision for the EU's Digital Decade revolves around four cardinal points: Skills, Infrastructures, Government and Business. Secure and sustainable...
Towards more sustainable district heating with capacity building
Energy efficient district heating (DH) systems are key to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. To unlock this potential, more knowledge about the next generation of district heating supply systems among the various types of responsible...
Joint planning and implementation of sustainable mobility
How can participation formats be made more attractive so that citizens become more actively involved in planning processes? Which criteria have to be paid more attention to when developing instruments and methods? These central questions were discussed at...
Growth opportunities for SMEs through digitisation – GrowIn 4.0 project presents tools and methods for implementing digital transformation
The international partnership of the Interreg North Sea Region (NSR) GrowIn 4.0 project convened from the 20th to 23rd of January for a virtual Steering Group Meeting. The main purpose of the meeting was to present all tools and methods developed and...
The SmartUp Accelerator Network – New opportunities for collaboration and development in the Baltic Sea Region
Serving as an offshoot of the Interreg Baltic Sea (BSR) SmartUp Accelerator project – a collaboration project between eight countries around the Baltic Sea with the focus on building – the SmartUP Acceleartor Platform is now live. Through a virtual...
Award-winning innovative strength: atene KOM receives TOP 100 seal of approval
atene KOM GmbH has been awarded the TOP 100 Seal 2021, one of the most important awards for future-oriented innovation management. This prize – in its 28th year - is awarded annually to notably innovative medium-sized companies. atene KOM has previously...
Digital Energy Challenges – Reducing Energy Consumption in German Schools
Energy efficiency and environmental awareness was not yet "en vogue" in school construction of the 1960s and 70s in Germany, and so many buildings of that time today offer great potential in the reduction of the CO2 budget and the associated operational...
Teaching material for project-oriented, interdisciplinary and digital teaching and learning at universities is now available
EPIC project successfully developed and tested methods and approaches of problem-based learning in cooperation with universities and companies. Universities in Europe are facing a wide range of changes: the trend to more digital and self-organised and...
Transformation of district heating: LowTEMP paves the way to sustainable energy supply with low temperature district heating systems and capacity building
A web-livestream of the LowTEMP Final Conference offered more than 140 district heating experts from energy companies, suppliers, municipalities and the academic sector from all over Europe the opportunity to discuss the potentials and challenges of low...
SmartUP Accelerator Network: Opportunities & Next Steps
Serving as a continuation of the Interreg Baltic Sea (BSR) SmartUp Accelerator project—a collaboration project between seven countries around the Baltic Sea with the focus on building consumer cleantech ecosystems—the SmartUP Acceleartor Platform is now...