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Spring 2023 European Energy Innovation
14 COMMUNICATION

EIRIE for your R&I needs to

support your endeavours to

lead the energy transition

Discover EIRIE (European Interconnection for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship),
developed within the Horizon 2020 PANTERA project, and find out all the opportunities this
interactive multi-functional platform can bring, simply by logging in with your EU credentials.
For ultimate benefit you only need to raise activity in areas that provide you with real value
and your authorization level will rise to the required level!

he key objective of the EIRIE to play an active role within the and attractiveness of successful
platform is to connect and European research community. partnerships and R&I, being national,
bring together the European regional or European.
TUnion’s Research & With PANTERA and especially the
Innovation community in smart grids, EIRIE platform, we bridge the gaps EIRIE openly facilitates collaboration
storage and local energy systems, in that currently exist in the energy between researchers, R&I
one place, to enable collaboration, field in Europe between Member organizations, and policy makers,
increase wider interest and give States, by bringing through a building a research database which
access to all the resources needed single point of access, the benefits aims at levelized investments in
Smart Grids, Storage and Local
Energy Systems throughout Europe,
leaving no one behind. Users enjoy
an easy access to information on
potential funding and consortium
building, projects data collection
(results and outcomes, best
practices, reports and deliverables,
etc.), standards and regulations, all
of these searchable via an easy-to-
use dynamic search tool. Through
EIRIE, collaboration is enriched
through the Confluence tool, which
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is seamlessly integrated within the
EIRIE platform.

Surveys carried out to assess the
main barriers limiting the funding
and development of R&I in the energy
field revealed: a lack of responsive
networking facilities, limited
monetary & human resources and
limited national policy in support of
R&I activities. The PANTERA project
addressed all these barriers, either
via direct activities such as the
organisation of workshops with the
participation of local stakeholders,
or through the rich functionalities
of the EIRIE platform. The success
and sustainability of EIRIE is

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