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ESECA - European Sustainable Energy Cluster partnership for Africa

LE2C is partner of ESECA project that aims at contributing to positioning European companies from the sustainable energy sector in Sub-Saharan African markets. The project, funded by the European Commission, has a duration of 36 months (starting in September 2021) and approximately 600 k€ of budget.

OBJECTIVES

European Sustainable Energy Cluster partnership for Africa (ESECA) aims at intensifying business network collaboration among European SMEs in the renewable energy and smart grids sectors, in order to develop a joint internationalization strategy with common goals towards Sub-Sahara African markets and a roadmap for implementation facilitating the internationalisation of these SMEs, fostering the collaboration among European and African SMEs. Specific objectives are:

1) Intensify business network collaboration among European SMEs from the renewable energy and electrical power generation, distribution and transmission sectors

■ Foster clusters & SMEs trans-regional cooperation and partnership building
■ Help SMEs identify business and internationalisation opportunities
■ Position SMEs into trans-European consortiums

2) To develop a joint internationalisation strategy plan

■ Develop in depth market reports for target countries
■ Define an internationalisation strategy plan to organise direct and reverse missions
■ Sign Cooperation Agreements with relevant African associations and relevant stakeholders

 

 

SECTORS

 

TARGET COUNTRIES

The project activities have common goals towards 5 Sub-Saharan African markets:

Here you can download key information on each target country. Interested in consulting the in-dept market reports? Write to s.brembati@energycluster.it

 
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Past opportunities

➙ Tanzania Business Mission 2024
➙ Networking event Augburg 2023
Kenya and Ruanda Business Mission 2023
Senegal Business Mission 2023
Networking Event Gijón 2023
➙ Networking Event Lille 2022
➙ Exploratory visit Kenya & Tanzania 2022
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Financial support for business missions in Africa

 

 

Partners

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ESECA is a partnership formed by five European clusters (ACE, MEDEE, LE2C, MetaIndustry4 and ECPE) from Spain, France, Italy and Germany. Together, we gather around 550 organizations and 290 SMEs.

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READ THE PROJECT BROCHURE

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