
Eurisy was invited to attend the first meeting of the MORE4NRG Regions’ Consortium in Lulea, on the 20th of November, following the acceptance of the project application by the INTERREG Joint Technical Committee. On this occasion, the collaboration between the Consortium and Eurisy was formalised, following a vote of the MORE4NRG Consortium Steering Committee.
The MORE4NRG INTERREG project aims at improving energy efficiency in all 11 participating regions: Abruzzo (IT), Flevoland (NL), Gabrovo (BG), Lazio (IT), Maramures (RO), Noord-Brabant (NL), Norrbotten (SE), Valencia (ES), Västernorrland (SE), and Western Greece (GK). The Assembly of the European Regions (AER), with whom Eurisy has collaborated intensively in the past year, is also part of the project.
The case-study initiated with the MORE4NRG Consortium will evaluate the value-added of satellite information and serviced to the concrete needs of the 11 Regions, and will facilite regions’ access to the relevant innovative satellite-based tools.
In order to do this, a team of experts partnering with Eurisy (from EARSC, ESA, ESOA, Euroteleserv, and SFERA) will analyse the needs of the regions and will make recommendations on how to go about implementing best-value satellite solutions, that is, those services that have a maximum positive impact on the largest number of regions, with a minimum investment.
More than just technical recommendations, the group of experts will analyse and make recommendations concerning economics (cost, financing mechanisms, regulatory framework) and organisational issues (decision-making process, human ressource management, management of change etc). The transferability of the implementation model is also a major focus of the case-study, with the stake of allowing the largest number of regions to adapt and use it for their own benefit.
During the Lulea meeting a preliminary calendar of exchanges between the experts and the regions was agreed on, to coincide with the project state-of-the-art seminars in February, March and April 2009.