Description
The European Cluster Collaboration Platform, in collaboration with Energy Cluster Denmark, organises the next edition of the Cluster Collaboration Labs in Esbjerg, Denmark, on 6-7 May 2025. This time, the focus will be on the energy transition. Together with our host, we will discuss project ideas on fostering the clean energy transition, clean technologies, and recycling, as well as the linkages to digital solutions, among others smart energy and cybersecurity.
The C2Lab is a workshop-style event where you will have the opportunity to meet new partners, discuss your project ideas, and initiate collaboration – for example, to apply together for a European call. Participants could either join with a concrete project proposal or offer their expertise and knowledge by joining others.
Download the Input Paper and learn more about the goals, opportunities, and collaboration mechanisms of the event, supporting innovative clean energy solutions.
Who can attend?
The C2Lab is for companies, cluster organisations, research organisations, actors from civil society, and other entities interested in joining European project consortia. It is open to participants from the European Union and the SMP/COSME countries.
What are the topics of the C2Lab?
As a starting point for the joint project creation, we propose the following all six overarching challenges for the working groups. Each topic can cover different aspects that can be discussed:
- Clean energy transition
- Clean technologies
- Recycling and circular economy
- Smart energy
- Digitalisation
- Cybersecurity
- Your own project idea
Each participant can choose one of these challenges to work on with their fellow peers during the C2Lab.
Agenda
Please find here the agenda
Energy Cluster Denmark has a great morning activity in store, which will take place before the start of the C2Lab at 14:00. Starting at 10:00, we will go on a bus tour around the harbour, which serves as a crucial logistics and maintenance hub for North Sea wind farms. We will discover, among other highlights, the pre-assembly site at the port for wind turbine blades, towers, and more. We will also hear a presentation of the port's transition from fishery, oil and gas and now green technologies, namely wind, carbon capture and storage.
For all people interested in staying after the C2Lab, they are invited to join the Annual Assembly of the Energy Cluster Denmark. It is this year’s major innovation event in the energy sector, taking place at the Music Hall Esbjerg on 7-8 May 2025. The assembly brings together members and friends for two days focused on innovative technologies for the green transition, site visits, networking, and a conference on tomorrow’s green solutions. While the main presentations from the conference are in Danish, it is a valuable networking opportunity with entrepreneurs, large companies, municipalities, researchers, utility professionals, and other experts from the energy sector. Some side presentations will also be held in English.
Location
EfB Esbjerg Konference & Event
Gammel Vardevej 82
6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
Travel Recommendation
The closest airport to Esbjerg is Billund Airport. From Billund Airport, there is a bus connection that brings you directly to Esbjerg and back to the airport. See here the bus schedule.
Alternatively, you can travel to Copenhagen Airport and catch a train to Esbjerg. The train ride takes about 2:30 hours.
How does the C2Lab work?
The C2Lab is a co-creation space and counts on your active participation. The aim is to mature project ideas for the indicated challenges in discussions with the other participants and build a proposal together. The work initiated at the C2Lab should be further implemented after the lab itself. For the work at the lab, we will provide you with a project canvas and facilitators to help and guide the process.
- Register, choose a challenge, and set up your profile
When registering for the event on the B2Match platform, participants will choose a challenge they want to work on. Alternatively, they will have the option to present their own project idea and pitch it to the other participants.
- Share your offers in the marketplace
Participants will indicate what kind of ideas and capabilities they can offer for new projects and what kind of projects they are looking for. These will be published in the marketplace where all participants will be able to browse what the others bring to the table.
- Request meetings (“Long Term Matchmaking”)
Attendees will invite other participants to preparatory meetings to speak about collaboration opportunities, which will be further explored at the C2Lab. These meetings will take place online on the B2Match platform between registration and the in-person workshop.
- Join the online pitching session
An online pitching session will be held where participants will introduce themselves personally to the other participants. This will be an additional opportunity to meet prospective project partners.
- In-person C2Lab
Participants will meet in Esbjerg on 6-7 May 2025. Based on challenge selection, participants will join the respective working group to initiate their project ideas with peers. Each working group will be guided by a facilitator. Within the groups, participants will develop their project proposals by discussing the main elements of every project:
- Common goals
- Objectives and scope of the project
- Target groups
- Activities, deliverables and milestones
- Risks and assumptions
The goal will be to have a project roadmap at the end of the C2Lab that the teams will be able to further implement and bring to a public call or alternative funding opportunities. At the end of the discussions, next steps for collaboration will be defined.
Info Session
Please see here the recording of the event's info session:
C2Lab Discussion Group
We invite you to join the C2Lab discussion group on LinkedIn to stay up to date with the latest info on the C2Lab, get in touch with a larger group of people looking for collaboration, and discuss topics close to your heart.