The European Innovation Council Business Acceleration Services and DEME invite you to participate in our brand-new Planet.tech challenge. DEME is committed to being a sustainable, safe and global dredging, environmental and marine engineering solutions provider that benefits people and the planet. This is a great opportunity to enhance your cooperation with DEME and co-create innovative solutions to a number of pre-determined challenges related to the European Green Deal.
Apply and step up to the plate.
Applications are open until 19 April 2020 23.59 (CET)
The European Green Deal, and the major sustainability challenges it will tackle, ask for close collaboration across value chains. With the Planet.tech initiative, the EIC Business Acceleration Services offers the opportunity to enhance your cooperation with different corporates and jointly devise innovative solutions to a number of pre-determined challenges in the field of sustainability.
The corporates will dedicate a team of experts to select the SME with the highest possibilities to develop a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) around the challenges proposed. Successful pilots will be invited to showcase their solution in a dedicated event in Brussels, Belgium in autumn 2020 (tbd).
Challenges from DEME
At DEME, it is our ambition to fundamentally contribute to sustainable solutions for the global environmental, societal and economic challenges facing our world today (DEME’s sustainability report)
The following challenges currently apply:
CLIMATE AND ENERGY
- Reduce DEME’s energy consumption and/or improve her energy efficiency with the main focus on our vessels (DEME fleet)
- Reduce green house gas emission of our operations
- Opportunities related to new renewable energy solutions preferable marine focussed
WASTE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- Opportunities related to hydrogen production and storage preferably in a harsh offshore environment
- Opportunities for carbon capture (utilisation and storage)
HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELL-BEING
- How might DEME improve it’s overall safety awareness in a lean and digital way that is attractive for crew on board of our vessels
NATURAL CAPITAL
- Find solutions that safeguard and improve marine and terrestrial ecosystems by de-polluting, restoring and enhancing our oceans, rivers, coastal areas, ports and land and that DEME can combine with her operations
More specifics about the challenges and the application form can be found on the dedicated pages for each EIC partner corporate on the EIC Community:
- ABInbev (Sustainable Industry)
- Deme (Biodiversity/Oceans)
- Enel (Clean Energy)
- Nestlé (Sustainable food system)
- P&G (Alternatives to plastic)
- Veolia (Combatting pollution)
Should you have any questions regarding the event, please refer to our helpdesk: https://community-smei.easme-web.eu/contact (please choose “Planet.tech DEME" as the subject).
DISCLAIMER: This information is provided in the interest of knowledge sharing and should not be interpreted as the official view of the European Commission, or any other organisation.