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EICs promoting energy efficiency as Campaign
Associates 29th November 2005 Cornelia
Pankratz Euro Info Centre
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Euro Info Centre Network
308 Euro Info Centres including 269 traditional
Euro Info Centres 13 Euro Info Correspondence
Centres 26 Associate Members Plus 340 relays
in 280 cities in 44 countries
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Euro Info Centre Mission

• To inform enterprises on Community matters
• To advise SMEs on the application of Community
  legislation, regulations etc.
• To assist SMEs in positioning themselves in the
  European market
• To provide feedback to the European Commission
  about Community matters affecting SMEs

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What EICs do for enterprises

• Provide information about European public tenders
  or programmes
• Supply accurate market or country analysis
• Provide advice on European Directives,
  regulations and legislation
• Help businesses apply for European Commission
  funding or projects
• Assist companies to export within Europe and
  internationally
• Help businesses find trade partners, investment
  opportunities or suppliers by collaborating with
  thematic networks
• Support companies who introduce innovations

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EIC network effect

• The network effect is one of the key strengths of
  the EIC network
• Providing a platform for EICs to be in daily
  contact with each other
• Promoting Best practice (through common,
  centrally supported electronic methods)
• Offering a wide range of networking opportunities

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Example collaboration EIC Kiel Energy Agency
P Social housing assistance P Specialists in
Housing
Housing
P General housing assistance P Consulting
P Loans and grants P Equity capital products
P Federal assistance
P Funding pilots P Business start-up
information service P Master craftsmen
assistance
Business

• P Funding programmes
• P Funding for urban development
• P Regionalprogramm 2000
• P Energy Agency Schleswig- Holstein
• P Euro Info Centre Kiel
• P Project management

• P Municipal Investmentfonds
• P Preservation of urban historical buildings
• P Loans for municipalities and municipal
  enterprises
• P Financing of school construction
• P PPP-competence centre

Municipalities
P Conveyance loans (KfW / LR)
Services
P EU-Interreg programmes
P Management of acquisition financing
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Example EIC Kiel partners

• Energy Agency Housing Department IB.ImmoCheck
  serviceIB Financing Department special focus
  of wind energy plants
• EWEA European Wind Energy Association Dr. Klaus
  Rave, Member of the Executive Committee (1st Vice
  President) and director of IB
• 3 Chambers of Commerce
• Business Development Technology Corporation
  Schleswig-Holstein IRC Innovation Consultants
  specialized in the field of renewable energy
  energy efficiency
• Business network Centre of Excellence Wind
  www.cewind.de
• Eco Forum with focus on biomass
• Universities Colleges
• Education Educational Centre for Renewable
  Energy (BZEE), Environmental Academy Neumünster
• Technology Centre Centre for Energy Technology
  Rendsburg and Technology and Ecology Center
  Eckerförde
• EIC Network such as EIC Liguria (IT) and EIC Fyns
  (DK)

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Example of an awareness raising conference (2006)

• Project Stimulating innovation for renewable
  energies for SMEs (EICs Specific Actions on
  Entrepreneurship)
• One-day conference with parallel thematic
  workshops and B2B meetings (ECO Forum, September
  2006)
• Involved EICs Kiel (D), Aabenraa (DK) and Fyns
  (DK)
• Aim sustainable growth and a continued
  competitiveness in renewable energies by new
  project ideas and new contacts on the
  trans-national and European level
• Support of innovative project ideas of SME EICs
  and local co-operation partners support jointly
  the cooperation between SMEs and academic
  institutions in field of renewable energies
• Business support services will present their
  offers to SME academics EU-programme experts,
  experts for national and regional programmes,
  consultants experienced in writing project
  proposals, members of the networks CEWind, Eco
  net ECO Forum, local co-operation partners as
  well as SMEs and multipliers from Denmark
• Awareness will be raised on ways to succeed in
  the evolving markets for renewable energies

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Please contact us ...

• 1. Annegret Meyer-Kock
• Tel. [phone]
• annegret.meyer-kock_at_ib-sh.de
• 2. Susann Henning
• Tel. [phone]
• susann.henning_at_ib-sh.de
• 3. Cornelia Pankratz
• Tel. [phone]
• cornelia.pankratz_at_ib-sh.de
• 4. Veronika Vollert
• Tel [phone]
• veronika.vollert_at_ib-sh.de
• 5. Liaison Office Brussels
• Dr. Angelo Wille
• Tel. [phone]

Investitionsbank Schleswig-HolsteinEU Funding /
EIC Kiel (DE 118) Haus der Wirtschaft/Business
Service Centre Lorentzendamm 22, 24103
Kiel www.ib-sh.de/eic
Thank you for your attention!