From June 10th to 13th, 2025, the town of Izola in Slovenia, hosted the first mission of the European project SPACE-NEST (Sustainable Path Advancing Community Empowerment - New European Bauhaus for Social Economy and Transformative Living).
Discover the latest updates from the European iDesignRES project and stay tuned for what’s coming next.
A new Project RISE press release has been published, highlighting the progress achieved in interregional cooperation and accelerating innovation. It outlines key activities carried out, achievements, and next steps to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in Europe. Read the full press release below.
On December 3, the first day of the Interregional Event of the Repower Industries project, organized by the Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster (LE2C), was held at the Sala Gonfalone of the Lombardy Region in Milan.
The activities of the Repower Industries project, in which LE2C is a partner together with the General Directorate for Local Authorities, Mountains, Energy Resources, Water Resource Utilization of the Lombardy Region, have begun.
During the third edition of the Waste Management Europe (WME) Fair in Bergamo, LE2C President Riccardo Bellato held a video interview to present the Cluster's mission and its innovative project, Syschemiq.
Ri.Circo.Lo is a regional call for Lombard SMEs to develop circular economy actions, an edition dedicated to Plastic and Textile supply chains.
Do you have innovative ideas or are you interested in developing projects in the areas of mineral raw materials and forest biomass, bioenergy and sustainable building? The RISE project is here to help you develop a concrete project!
The Lombardy Supply Chain "DeHSk" focused on the hydrogen theme and promoted within the LE2C Cluster with OMECO leader, has been approved by the Regione Lombardia - Directorate General for Economic Development.
With a financial envelope of €34 million, the initiative aims to strengthen the innovation, production and investment capacity of companies, in line with the European Union's industrial strategy, with a particular focus on SMEs.
The Lombardy Supply Chain "ECO-SLUDGE" on sewage sludge, promoted within the LE2C Cluster with A2A Environment leader, has been approved by the Lombardy Region - Directorate General for Economic Development.
The Emerging Micro Pollutants Working Group (GdL-MIE) presents guidelines addressing the presence of floating plastic particles in freshwater.
Until 2 February 2024 the 2ª phase of the 'Research and Innovate' call is open, which supports investments in industrial research and experimental development of Lombard SMEs. Involved the ecosystems 'Advanced Manufacturing', 'Connectivity and Information', 'Smart Mobility and Architecture' and 'Culture and Knowledge'. Awards for members of technology clusters.
The third ESECA international workshop has come to an end: here are some highlights of this exciting event!
The European Commission has approved the Italian decree encouraging the self-consumption of energy from renewable sources. The decree focuses on two measures: an incentive tariff on renewable energy produced and shared and a non-repayable contribution. The financeable power is equal to five Gigawatts in total, with a time limit at the end of 2027.
The third edition of the Waste Management Europe Conference & Exhibition, the international trade fair focussed on waste management and the circular economy, will be held in Bergamo from 9 to 11 April 2024.
On November 13th , the Lombardy Regional Council approved a measure aimed at supporting Lombard SMEs in the development of circular economy practises. The main objective is to reduce and improve the management of waste generated in the plastics and textile supply stores.
Successful mission to Kenya and Rwanda for European-African collaboration on Renewable Energy and Smart Grids!
On September 20th and 21st, 21 Syschemiq partners gathered in Geleen, Netherlands, to revolutionize the recycling and reuse of plastic waste.
The business mission to Dakar, Senegal, was a successful case of collaboration between European and African companies in the renewable energy sector!h- 8
Latest advancements in sewage sludge management: discover the PHOSTER and FANGHI Lab projects and best practices in the SLUDGE-focused webinar hosted by Water Smart Territories.
The launch event of Tech4Lib, the new project led by the University of Brescia (UNIBS) and funded by Fondazione Cariplo, which aims to develop innovative and sustainable technology for battery recovery, will be held on 30 March.
LE2C met with Kenyan and Tanzanian stakeholders from the renewable energy sector, with the aim of organizing business missions in the near future to create collaborations between European SMEs and African companies.
The 3-day conference, with a focus on renewable energy, will take place in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, June 28-30, 2022.
Next June 22, during the Energy Management session organized as part of the SPARK 2022 energy exhibition, LE2C will present the first results of R-ACEs, the energy cooperation project!
Are you an SME working in the wastewater and sustainability sectors? Learn about Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's technology needs and, if your innovative solutions meet their needs, apply to meet them!
Come and visit LE2C at the Enlit Europe trade fair, which will take place in Milan at the Rho Fiera from 30 November to 2 December.
Legal Decision Support Tool": a tool to standardise energy cooperation contracts using templates to overcome the current legal barriers that discourage energy exchange projects between two or more parties
The European project ESECA, of which LE2C is a partner, started. The project aims to promote the internationalization of European SMEs operating in the renewable energy and smart grid sectors towards the markets of sub-Saharan Africa.
Don't miss the opportunity to meet with Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation (LASAN)! Discover their challenge regarding the Hyperion water reclamation plant and present your innovative solutions related to the energy and water sectors.
First LIFE Call for Proposals 2021 opened with over EUR 580 million available to help realise your project ideas!
Are you a scale-up? Do you have an innovation to de-carbonize New York’s mass-market building stock, quickly? Are you looking to scale in New York City?
Eu Techbridge is supporting Low Carbon Business Action Canada (LCBA Canada) in looking for EU solution providers on low carbon and circular economy related technologies requested in Canada.
Discover the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation (LASAN) challenge related to the Hyperion water reclamation plant. If your innovative solutions can help them make Hyperion 100% water recycling, apply to be selected and meet with LASAN!
The Empire Building Challenge (EBC) will spur economic growth and renewal in New York by attracting best-in-class manufacturers, solution providers, and entrepreneurs from around the world to help transform existing building stock into the buildings of the future.
As part of the EU Techbridge project, you will have the opportunity to offer the City of Vancouver your innovative solutions for monitoring and managing distributed stormwater management systems.
Apply to be selected for a 1:1 meeting with the end-users from the EastCoast USA interested in your energy, water and sludge treatment solutions.
The brokerage event organized by ACCIÒ (Agency for the competitiveness of Catalan enterprise) and the Catalan Research Insitute of Energy (IREC) in the context of the Enterprise Europe Network activities will be held on June 3, 2021.
Apply to be selected for 1:1 meetings with NEW YORK end-users interested in your Cleantech solution.
This year's edition of the Symposium will be held as a fully virtual event from 18-20 November 2020. The goal is to continue to foster the diffusion of scientific knowledge, by providing innovative solutions for sharing and presenting research works, best practices, case studies, as well as for networking and meeting with colleagues.
The Innovation Fund is the European Commission's new funding instrument, launched in 2019 and designed to achieve the strategy of a climate neutral Europe by 2050.
The European Commission, in close collaboration with the EU member states, will host a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators, partners and investors across Europe in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges.
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The European Commission has launched its 2020 call for project proposals under the LIFE programme, the European instrument that supports projects in the field of environmental and climate action.
The European Commission has organised an online Info Day on 30 April 2020, during which it will be possible to hold bilateral meetings with EASME experts.
The 2020 CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) Energy Work Programme will contribute to the further development and implementation of projects of common interest (PCIs) in the energy sector, namely in electricity (including smart grids), gas and cross-border carbon dioxide networks.
The next cut-off date of 19 May, 2020, will be dedicated to the Green Deal, the European Commission's strategic plan to make the EU economy sustainable.
The Green Alley Award is the first European award dedicated to startups active in the large and rich sector of the circular economy.
Around €64 million of EU funding is now available for energy efficiency innovation and market uptake projects.
The project has been recently approved by the European Commission within the COSME programme and it focuses on the creation of new internationalization opportunities for SMEs operating in the value chains at the intersection of water and energy.
February 6, 2020: the award ceremony for the winning companies of the second Call of VIDA Demonstration Voucher was held in Prague (CZ). Among these three Italian companies, members of Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster.
Luca Donelli, President of LE2C, will speak at the conderence organized by ENEA, which will deal with the role of energy technologies in the path of de-carbonization of the national energy system and of the sustainable development of the country.
Results of the second call closed on 31 October 2019 have been published.
The Workshop aims at presenting to the participants technological opportunities, innovative solutions and the applicable incentives to implement an integrated digitalization strategy aimed towards energetic efficiency.
The VIDA Project organizes 5 online training courses for SMEs
LE2C Cluster, in collaboration with PROMOS Italia, is launching on November 13th and 14th the "InBuyer Energy" format: two days of B2B meetings for engineering companies and Lombardy enterprises operating in the environment, energy and green building industries.
More than 80 participants took part to "VIDA Brokerage Event", the international event organized by LE2C in Milan on 12th September as part of the VIDA project.
Are you an SME active in the Food-Water-Energy sector? From today August 1st you can apply for the second and last call of the Demonstration Voucher of the VIDA project to obtain up to 250.000€ for partnership projects.
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Registration is now open for the international event "VIDA BROKERAGE EVENT: financing and opportunities for the food-water-energy sector" to be held on 12 September in Milan.
The first VIDA Awards Ceremony for the winning companies of the Demonstration Vouchers was held in Copenhagen on 10 July, 2019. Among the winners, two Italian companies involved, members of Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster.
On July 2nd LE2C organized the webinar on the theme "Sustainable agriculture: waste management and energy efficiency".
LE2C in collaboration with the Spanish cluster ZINNAE and the other partners of the project VIDA, organizes for July 2nd 2019, a webinar with the theme "Sustainable agriculture: waste management and energy efficiency".
Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster will support the Lombardy Region in the Water Smart Territories thematic area for the S3 strategy, the European platform that brings together experts and bodies with skills and responsibilities in the management of regional innovation programmes.
Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster, with the technical support of TURBODEN, is now part of the new partnership for the thematic area Geothermal Energy 2.0, within the Smart Specialisation Platform S3, the European platform that aims to assist regions and Member States in developing, implementing and reviewing regional smart specialisation strategies
April 26th, 2019 - The NESSIE project has organised the Conference “Developing Demonstration Projects: Corrosion Prevention for Offshore Renewables" in Brussels.
Do you want to learn about collaborative demonstration projects to tackle corrosion?
During the event held on March 5th in Milano, LE2C gathered SMEs of the food supply chains to present the open calls for voucher schemes aimed at improving the use of energy resources (water and other energy sources).
The NeSSIE partners will host a dissemination event open to regional and European institutional and industrial stakeholders of the Blue Economy sector and Offshore Renewable Energy industry.
The conference will be held on the 29th of March 2019 in Ravenna (Italy) at OMC 2019 - Offshore Mediterranean Conference & Exhibition.
Join the Dec.12th Webinar with the objective to present the VIDA Voucher schemes.
The conference will be held on the 24th of January 2019 in Glasgow and it will provide a platform to share corrosion challenges, opportunities and solution development for the North Sea basin.
Join the Nov.13th Webinar open to companies who are interested in submitting the Expression of Interest (EoI) in providing solutions to the NeSSIE demo cases.
Innovative supply chain companies in the offshore sector are being invited to work with three large-scale project developers on commercial solutions for corrosion and material challenges in the North Sea Basin, as part of the NeSSIE competition.
LE2C President Luca Donelli, returning from the B20 Business Forum: technological clusters are one of the pillars of a winning model of open innovation
The conference "Emerging micropollutants and contaminants. Testimonials, solutions and perspectives" organized by LE2C, Politecnico di Milano, IRSA-CNR, Università di Milano-Bicocca and Lariana Depur was held on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th June with a large and qualified participation of business representatives, researchers, doctoral and graduate students and representatives of local authorities.
The NESSIE project consortium launches today the first stage of the competition to implement projects demonstrating anti-corrosion solutions in the North Sea
Cordoba, April 5th, 2018 – Luca Donelli, LE2C president, today at the B20 Cordoba Business Leaders’ Forum, event that gathers over 500 entrepreneurs.
Jan 30th - Feb. 1st, 2018. NeSSIE partners gathered in Edinburgh (Scotland) for the third Steering Committee meeting where they launched the first two Research Reports.
NeSSIE (North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy) project launched
The Cluster, with 8 european partners, won the project “NESSIE: North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy
Cluster's new governance
Special subscription fee for LE2C associates
An initiative for enterprises, research centers and local authorities about the technologies of measurement and control for water resources management
LE2C is one of the clusters partecipating in the European Cluster Conference2016 in Bruxelles.
Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster will partecipate in the EU Cluster Matchmaking Event.
The Cluster Manager Carmen Disanto will be in Lion to present the Lomardy Energy Cleantech Cluster.
Call to promote and support the aggregation of enterprises from the construction, wood-forniture, electrical appliances and home automation.
From May 16th to 19th 2016 Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster invites you to Cape Town for the African Utility Week, the most important event in the energy industry of the whole continent
For start-ups new incoming funds. The Lombardy Region, with the call
Don’t miss the opportunity to watch the videos of Proposal Day 2016 on our youtube channel
A great opportunity for enterprises to explore opportunities in the UAE market in the fields of water management, electricity and solar technologies
The first italian cluster to obtain the prestigious award
International Cleantech Network is seeking a new Head of the Secretariat
5 market intelligence reports on cleantech sector
Meeting with the representatives of the Lombard Technological Clusters
“Waste To Energy en Europa, innovations and development”
The Lombardy Energy Clenatech Cluster, in collaboration with the franch cluster Tenerrdis and UBIFRANCE is organising a special event for comapnies working in the hydroelectric fileld
Go Ahead!
17th July 2014, 5.00 p.m. - 07.30 p.m.
LE2C invite its cluster members to join to the business trip!
Dowload the presentations and the press review!
tenders and calls linked to the costruction of the world's largest fusion reactor
Find contact information on how to proceed your dialogue with the city and their presentations during the conference!
The Cities of Milan, in collaboration with LEC, as one of the 10 smart cities attended.
LEC company got the chance to meet again en ex costumer
An agreement which strenghtens collaboration in order to face foreign markets
7 mechanic' workshops will meet to share and optimize their working hours
3th April 2014
working for brings LEC companies to apply at ITER Tenders!
Energy and sustainable building together for efficient collaboration!
The report includes Lombardy Energy Cluster experience
The aim is to face together foreign markets: firms, banks and universities!.. as they are already doing most of the other clusters in Asia, North Europe Countries or North America.
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