We are pleased to invite you to participate in the e-harbours midterm conference 2012. This two-day event will be organized in cooperation with the I-SUP 2012  congress in Bruges, Belgium.  

E-harbours interview with Hans Schäfers, from the Hamburg showcase of the e-harbours project: Hans Schäfers is a fellow at engineering company Sumbi, and teaches at both the Hamburg University for Applied Science HAW and the Harbour City University of Hamburg. 

Edinburgh, SCOTLAND - In close cooperation with Scottish Enterprise and the project partners Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, North Sea Supply Connect will be organizing a conference about sustainable energy on March 20th and 21st of this year.

A recently published UK report for DEFRA, looking at the benefits of implementing an Ecosystems Services approach has used the SURF Gaywood Valley project as a case study.

Join the Food Port project group on LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Food-Port-4360356?home=&gid=4360356&trk=anet_ug_hm

Work by Saxion University in the Netherlands on the Sustainable Urban Fringes (SURF) project, was recently identified as best practice by Neth-ER, the Netherlands House for Education and Research.

The first pilot course of the module “Hinterland Management related to port Management” is starting this spring semester. Target group: students of the MSc International Logistics Management and Engineering Programme at NMU partner universities.

The 8th Call for Applications for projects under the North Sea Region Programme is now closed. A total of six applications were submitted.

The North Sea Commission is looking for a new President. There are also other vacant positions with the organisation. The positions are open for politicians from NSC member regions.

Copenhagen is building a new cruise terminal with special focus on energy efficiency and environmental solutions: green roofs that insulate both from cold and heat and absorb much of the rain falling relieving the sewage system, solar energy panels for electricity power, a sustainable indoor climate solution, translucent building elements of polycarbonate, roof-windows minimizing electrical consumption, HEATBLOC surface preventing solar overheating. February 23, 2012 CRUISE GATEWAY partners and further stakeholders met in Copenhagen to get the latest information.

The Sustainable Energy Europe Awards 2012 is currently accepting project proposals for the 2012 competition. Deadline to submit proposals is 29 February 2012.

The second PMG Meeting was held on January 26. Irene van der Craats kindly invited the PMG members to the European capitol, Brussels.

The PMG decided to do a European project inventory.

The Business Development Platform that the twin-projects North Sea Supply Connect and Baltic Supply have been working on over the past year has taken shape in the soon to be launched European Business Support Network.

http://youtu.be/6GHiMfpgik8

Gdansk, POLAND - On October 25th of last year, Chairman Rob Engelsman from the Northern Netherlands welcomed representatives from six countries to the second joint Political Advisory Group (PAG) meeting between Baltic Supply and North Sea Supply Connect at Gdansk Polish Maritime Museum. The meeting was held on the occasion of the Baltic Sea Development Forum Summit. The PAG members were impressed by the new promotional film for the European Business Support Network. After an overview on the progress of the project by co-chair Barbara Schieferstein, Ministry of Economics of Bremen Germany, Professor Henri de Groot from the University of Amsterdam offered some critical remarks playing the “devil’s advocate”.

The deadline to submit project ideas for pre-assessment for the 8th Call for Applications is 16 January. 

The forms for the 8th Call for Applications, both for full project applications and guidance for cluster applications, are now online. Please note that the forms are mainly open for orientation purposes, in order to give potential applicants the possibility to see what information will be required and how to work the online system.