Knowledge Transfer
Intelligent Energy Europe – A project by the European Commission
The aim of the EU-funded EmPower project is to support the dissemination of intelligent energy technologies which are already available, but whose potential remains largely unexploited due to a lack of experience or technical knowledge by secondary users (installation companies, planners, etc.), thus limiting demand.
Such knowledge gaps are significant in regions which enjoy both a lively local supply and strong potential demand of intelligent energy solutions, but also widely across EU regions, whereby some are particularly suited to deploy specific solutions, which originate from the experience of other regions. Engineering companies, architects, installers, and local institutional actors should be empowered to take full advantage of novel intelligent energy solutions, and transmit those advantages to their clientele.
The prompt adoption of those solutions stimulates the market and generates more investment in innovation, activating a virtuous circle of economic and technological progress, which some EU regions have already witnessed. Some of the partner regions in the EmPower project are technology leaders in intelligent energy solutions, while others – due to geographical location, natural resources or local regulations – are, or are poised to become, very significant markets for those innovative solutions.
EmPower activities therefore focus on the training of technicians, who are responsible for installation and/ or maintenance of energy-related products, and other key service providers, e.g. architects, who contribute to plan and advise end users on the choice of equipment.
A further aim of the project is to increase the dissemination of intelligent energy solutions which have been developed or which are distributed by SME in participating regions, to promote vertical and horizontal networking in order to further their implementation, and to stimulate customer demand.
Finally, the initiative aims to stimulate the transfer of technologies between partner regions, and to promote sustainable innovations by local businesses e.g. architects, who contribute to plan and advise end users on the choice of equipment.
As part of their studies at HHL, many students participate in a field project. In general, all projects are conducted together with a corporate partner. The projects are real-life consulting cases provided by corporate partners. Groups of 4 to 5 students act as a consulting team for a corporate client. Below you will find a selection of projects supervised by the chair of Economics and Information Systems.
