EEA and Norway Grants: Business Cooperation and the European Green Deal

Innovation Norway invites businesses, startups, scaleup professionals, researchers, investors and other stakeholders from Norway, Iceland and Central/Southern Europe for a two-day event in Sofia for business cooperation on the European Green Deal.

Agenda
You can find the detailed agenda for the event on our B2Match event page.

The European Green Deal
The European Commission presented the Union’s plan to overcome the challenges faced by climate change and environmental degradation in December 2019, the European Green Deal. The plan aims to turn climate and environmental challenges into opportunities across policy areas - creating extensive possibilities for European businesses to create new technologies and sustainable solutions that leads to value creation.

The event aims to contribute to reaching the goals set out in the European Green Deal, identify challenges for business cooperation on green solutions, explore how to best cooperate on green business solutions, and create synergies between the EEA and Norway Grants, and European and national funding schemes or programs.

This event will contain four thematic sessions focusing on the following areas within the European Green Deal:
1. The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage
2. Digitalisation of the Sustainable Blue Economy
3. Raw Materials
4. Hydrogen for Greening Transportation

Who?
The event is organised in cooperation between 12 partners from the EEA and Norway Grants Business and Innovation Programme.

• Businesses, clusters, associations, research institutes and other stakeholders from Northern and Southern/Central Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia.

• Representatives from the top innovation agencies from our 12 partner countries in Europe

Where?
Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia

Why participate?
• Business and cooperation on the latest green solutions
• Partnerships, cooperation and networks in Europe
• Insight into new markets
• Learn more about the European Union's Green Growth Strategy
• Networking and matchmaking for future partnerships

Matchmaking
The event aims to connect entrepreneurs, businesses, scaleup professionals, researchers, investors and other stakeholders for partnerships, business and cooperation on the European Green Deal.

During the event, there will be a matchmaking session with scheduled meetings. Join the matchmaking in the online platform, B2Match, and schedule meetings with other businesses from across Europe in advance.

The EEA and Norway Grants
The EEA and Norway Grants support programmes on Business Development, Innovation and SMEs in Europe. The aim is to increase competitiveness, value-creation and cooperation with Norway.

The Grants are the contribution from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to reducing social and economic disparities and strengthening cooperation in Europe.

You can read more about the EEA and Norway Grants by Innovation Norway here