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@ Trasnational cooperation

Forum: meeting in Rome

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INCREASING ENERGY PERFORMANCE BY TRANSFER OF

INNOVATION TO AGRO-FOOD SMES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA

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PARTNERS

Italian National Agency for new Te-

chnologies, ENEA

Italian Federation of Food Industry,

FEDERALIMENTARE

Innovation and Technology Transfer Re-

gional Center for Agrofood,

CRITT IAA PACA

Spanish Federation of Food and Drink

Industries, FIAB

Federation of Hellenic Food Industries,

SEVT

Centre for the Renewable Energy Sour-

ces, CRES

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of

Slovenia, GZS

IPA PARTNERS

Agency for rural development of Istria

Ltd Pazin, AZRRI

Union of Dairy, Beef, Food Industrialists,

SETBIR

OBSERVER

TANGIBLE OUTPUTS � 50 energy audits (micro-analysis) addressing potential scenarios of energy-efficiency

upgrade

� A Decision Ssupport System processing a set of information related to SMEs energy

consumptions

� A permanent Transnational Cooperation Forum, in order to stimulate investment policies

based on lower energy inputs, better energy efficiency in the phases of transformation and processing phase

� A European Atlas of the energy efficiency innovative interventions for the SMEs in the pilot

sectors

� Seven national handbooks to support SMEs in energy efficiency innovation

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Food and Drink

processing

Industry is among

the largest

industries in

Europe, with more

than € 1 trillion

turnover

accounting for

approximately 4.3

million workers

and highly

demanding in raw

material

consumption.

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SINERGIA Workshop at ECOMONDO Fair

Along with ECOMONDO, the international exhibition for material and energy recovery and sustainable development, Key Energy forms the most important platform in the Mediterranean basin for European and International green strategies and solutions. In this context, the 3rd November, Enea and Federalimentare organized a workshop “Energy efficiency and renewable energy as tools to enhance the competitiveness of agri-food companies" with the aims to demonstrate some advanced technological solutions as well as to show case studies of applications of energy efficiency models in the agri-food sector and to discuss the opportunities of financial investments. The database of the innovative technologies developed in the project SINERGIA was presented. More than 40 participants registered to the event and collected the core materials. During Key Energy exhibition, informational materials about the project was distributed and useful contacts were established with companies. More information to Ms. Ombretta Presenti at: ombretta.presenti@enea.it

EVENT “Practical results of FP7, FP6 and other publicly funded projects initiated by the ETP Food for Life and its National Technology Platforms”

During the NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS “FOOD FOR LIFE” Workshop on Practical Results of Research Projects, held in Brussels, Belgium on 2nd of December 2014, SINERGIA FET Database was announced to the audience. Dissemination material such as the leaflet and the Newsletter were distributed. The liaison with the Food For Life Technology Platform at European and National level is progressing well and represent a crucial factor also considering the preparation of the final Protocol containing at least 3 main investment proposals. The Strategic Research Agenda of the F4L could be one of the main source to contribute to this activity (part of our Component 5) and may reflect in the future part of the SINERGIA protocol findings as well. More information to Ms.

Fotini Salta at fotsal@sevt.gr

Flash news from SINERGIA countries

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Flash news from SINERGIA countries

"16th livestock owners consulting" and " 15th exhibition of Croatian sheep and goat cheeses"

The aim of the conference was, through lectures and discussions with leading experts, to offer growers the ability to acquire new knowledge in the field of implementation of breeding and

selection programs, prevention and care of sheep and goats, production technology and energy savings, processing of sheep's and goat's milk, feeding, housing and care of sheep and goats. Conference and exhibition of cheese was held on 23 and 24 October 2014 at the Hotel Diamant in Poreč.

During the event AZRRI conducted research within the framework of SINERGIA into how SMEs are managing energy use on their farms. The results of the Energy use Questionnaire will be published soon on the web site of the SINERGIA www.sinergia-med.eu

More information to Ms. Sanja Udovičić at: sanja.udovicic@azrri.hr

Capitalization seminar, 12th November, GZS, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Slovenian partner, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia organized capitalization seminar: Energy efficiency in food sector. This event was an excellent opportunity for promotion of energy efficiency concept for enterprises and capitalization of experiences of other institutions. At the seminar there were two presentations about similar European projects, WE – EEN and CO – EFFICIENT. While WE-EEN is aiming to enhance the provision of environmental services to SMEs through the Enterprise Europe Network (focusing on three key sectors: waste management, surface treatment and manufacturing of electronic and electric components) the CO-EFFICIENT is aiming to advance innovation and already available technologies for energy efficiency and use of renewable resources in operations and production processes of Mediterranean SMEs. Some good Slovenian practices about energy audits were presented to participants by company Enekom, Energy advisory institute from Slovenia. There was interesting presentation about successful project Heating of the Benedikt’s Cultural Centre with the Ground-Med geothermal heat pump. Presentation was given by Slovene company Gejzir and Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving from Greece.

Study tour, Brewery Pivovarna Union, Ljubljana, Slovenia

On the 13th November Sinergia partners went on a study tour in the Slovene brewery located in Ljubljana. Pivovarna Union is today one of the largest joint-stock enterprises in Slovenia. State-of-the-art technology and equipment, together with premium-quality ingredients and longstanding expertise, allow the company to accomplish its primary objective: to offer the consumer nothing but the very best. The Union Brewery produces beer, refreshing non-alcoholic drinks and natural spring water. In ensuring continued consumer satisfaction, the company shall improve management based on the ISO quality requisites, environmental standards as well as the modern technology that it has at its disposal. The Brewery is committed to preserve the environment in order that it can continue to meet the needs and expectations of future generations. The company therefore invests its knowledge, expertise and money in order to reduce any activity-related environmental impact, as well as achieve objective on energy efficiency field such is to optimize the consumption of energy and water resources in production process. The company employs the energy manager of the year, Mr. Janez Trošt. More information to Ms. Tina Buh at: tina.buh@gzs.si

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Spanish country workshops FIAB has organized different workshops throughout the Spanish geography entitled "Boosting Spanish competitive model through smart regional specialization and its connection with H2020", which aimed to guide the companies in our country to identify priorities and areas of specialization get ahead of European aid to innovation. In all of these meetings we had spread leaflets and information about the projects in which FIAB is involved, including MED programme project "Sinergia" . More information to Mr. Federico Morais at: f.morais@fiab.es.

Seminar SINERGIA & TRADEIT energy efficiency

On 26th November 2014 the seminar “Keys to Efficient management of the supply chain of SMEs of the Traditional Food industry” was organised in the context of SINERGIA in close collaboration with the training programme of the FP7 Tradeit project. Proceedings and more info at: www.sinergia-med.eu

Capacity Building Seminar “BTA April 2015”

FIAB in cooperation with TRADEIT project will organize an Event+ Brokerage that will take place in Barcelona during the BTA and Hispack Trade Fair on the 21st-25th of April 2015. BTA features every type of machinery and equipment for the food industry and its trade, and for the meat and affiliated sectors, as well as intermediate food products and ingredients. During this context on 23rd April 2015 the capacity building seminar of SINERGIA will be organized and also the coordinator will be invited there. For further information you can visit:

http://www.bta-bcn.com/en

FINAL CONFERENCE OF SINERGIA “SAVE-THE-DATE” The final conference of Sinergia will be held at the same time of the first national conference about energy efficiency in industry organized by ADEME (French agency of energy and environment). The final Conference of SINERGIA therefore will take place in Marseille on 20th March 2015. More information on the national conference at: www.colloque-energie-industrie2015.ademe.fr

Further info how to pre-register to SINERGIA event may be addressed to Yvan Deloche at: Yvan.Deloche@critt-iaa-paca.com

Flash news from SINERGIA countries

Interview with...Nicola Colonna Target of the SINERGIA project is the reduction of

energy consumption for SMEs belonging to the agri-

food sector of Mediterranean basin. In what context

does it operate?

SINERGIA is enhancing cooperation amongst Mediterranean territories to

transform this area into a competitive macro region for the agribusiness, by

ensuring growth and employment, as well as to promote territorial cohesion and

environmental protection under the sustainable development “flag”. More

specifically it aims to transfer energy efficient models which will enable agro-

food SMEs to reduce their energy consumption through the introduction of

innovative technologies both process and power generation including renewable

energy sources.

Which concrete results until now?

SINERGIA consortium recently released “FET” the Food Energy Technology

database. It is an online repository of items where you can sort, by sector,

production processing (cooking, pasteurization, drying, chilling), for service

(lighting, cooling, heating, compressed air), the best technologies and experiences

already available. If you identify an interesting technology you can download a

summary sheet containing all kind of information and technical features. The

project relies on this type of knowledge transfer tool to reach audiences of

companies along the Med basin which are not connected to each other and not

familiar with these opportunities.

Which will be next steps to achieve?

There are three main roots until the project end. From one side partners are

almost completing the 50 pilot actions for the national companies, by finalising

the energy diagnosis actions. Based on the related findings an online Decision

Support System, customized in several national languages, will be set up.

Additionally an ATLAS of the best existing energy efficiency technologies will be

created. It is important to remark that FET, DSS and ATLAS will be a series of

interrelated outputs. Moreover we are going to celebrate national capacity

building seminars and workshops to disseminate the above described outputs and

to communicate the existence of the national helpdesks on the energy efficiency

themes which will be running also after the end of the project. Last but not least

the 20th of March in Marseille we are organising our final conference in the

context of the French event “ADEME” which will be held the days before.

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Nicola Colonna.

Degree in Agron-

omy. PhD in agri-

cultural sciences at

S.Anna School of

Advanced Studies

in Pisa. Senior re-

searcher at ENEA,

Casaccia Research

Center in Rome.

Technical Unit UT-

AGRI. Involved as

a specialist in sev-

eral European

projects.

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FET Database launch!

ENEA colleagues finalised the online version of the Database listing the best available technologies in terms of Energy efficiency experimented successfully in the agro-food sector.

FET, the acronym, Food Energy Tech is now ready to be updated by partners concerned with the support of specialize external contributors and from all the interested stakeholders or companies which would like to promote / display a specific technology of Energy efficiency already available under a certain industrial sector or under a certain food processing.

The database will provide basic information regarding the technological features of each solution as well as external references which will allow users to further deepen their under standing of the different greening processes.

If you are interested to consult FET now please visit the following link: http://sinergia.casaccia.enea.it/ or contact Ms. Ombretta Presenti at: ombretta.presenti@enea.it.

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"Investing in the eenergy efficiency for the agro-food SMEs: barriers and coordinated actions tto overcome hurdles”

ENEA and Federalimentare on 21th October 2014 organised the 3rd Trasnational Cooperation Forum with the aim to gather at national level feedback to consolidate and/or integrate in the Final Protocol of investment proposals which will be released at the end of the project in view to launch future call for proposals under MED Programme. More than 20 participants attended the meeting from agro-food companies, energy saving companies, energy operators, research centres and public agencies.

Information and strategies were shared to disseminate technologies and models to improve energy performances in the agro-food SMEs, in line with the goals of 2020 European Strategy and recent Directive. Barriers and bottlnecks were analysed too, in order to list challenges and potential actions to overcome hurdles. More information may be requested to Mr. Marco Meggiolaro at: marco.meggiolaro@eurisnet.it

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NEXT MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE IN ROME APPROXIMATELY 9-10 FEBRUARY 2015

AND WILL BE KINDLY HOSTED BY FEDERALIMENTARE

4th consortium meeting Ljubljana (Slovenia) 11-13 November 2104 Hosted by CCIS CAFE

P o s t c a r d s f r o m

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Website

The official website of SINERGIA

displays latest information about the

project, news & events. At the same

time It provides also useful and quick

connection among stakeholders,

companies and universities along the

agro-food domain.

wwwwww.sinergia-med.eu

Communication Unit Mr. Maurizio Notarfonso FEDERALIMENTARE notafonso@federalimentare.it

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