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Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster Agency on the international stage

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They still existed in January and February – Renewable Energy Hamburg’s exciting international plans for 2020: a trip by a delegation focusing on wind energy to South Korea and to the Tokyo World Smart Energy Week in Japan, a Canadian-German workshop on artificial intelligence in Hamburg, the closing conference of the EU project Northern Connections in Gothenburg, participation in the German-Norwegian energy dialogue in Oslo and assisting international visitors at the WindEnergy Hamburg 2020 exhibition.
 

International exchange despite the coronavirus pandemic

The visit by the company’s partners to South Korea and Japan, accompanied by the Hamburg officials responsible for business and innovation, did take place. The Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster Agency’s future plans were thwarted by the pandemic a short while later. Despite this bitter blow, the international division looks back on an eventful year in which, thanks to digital technology, it was possible to enter into an exchange with numerous stakeholders and successfully represent the renewable energy location of Hamburg on the world stage. In the course of this we tackled topics such as renewable energy, offshore wind energy, sector coupling and hydrogen in a variety of in-house web seminars and digital workshops together with Renewable Energy Hamburg cluster members and partners from China, Denmark, France, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea to name some examples. 
Behind the Scenes of the political part of the NorCon closing conference
Delegations from Hamburg and Groningen meet with Fukushima in Tokyo

Northern Connections project successfully completed

Renewable Energy Hamburg was able, together with 20 project partners from the North Sea region, to successfully complete the EU project Northern Connections at the end of 2020. Innovations from small and medium-sized companies in the field of renewable energy supply and resource use were linked with project initiatives in the North Sea area over the course of the four-year project. A total of three living-lab events took place to this end in 2020. At the start of the year, the participants
met in person in Edinburgh to explore the issue of carbon capture, storage and utilisation. Further living labs in central Denmark and Malmo tackling sustainability in hospitals and climate-neutral building were held digitally. The politically supported closing conference also moved to the digital realm and was streamed live from Gothenburg. Worthy of particular mention are the excellent relationships between northern European clusters, cities and regions, which created this project and firmly established it for future initiatives.
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