POWER Offshore Wind Business Networking
One of the key aims of POWER is to facilitate business networking across the POWER regions, in order to turn the offshore wind supply chain more transnational, taking advantage of the specific strengths and capabilities of each POWER region's industries.
Business networking through energy associations
The regional energy industry associations (WAB, EEEGr, Windcomm, OCD) involved in POWER have already established strong links, of which the offshore wind industry will benefit in the longer term.
Please visit their websites for information about offshore wind businesses in the POWER partner regions:
POWER Business Networking events
To facilitate the networking between businesses from the POWER partner regions, POWER organises transnational Business Networking Events, between Denmark, Northern Germany and the East of England. The concept of these events is:
- to offer focussed offshore wind presentations from businesses and organisations from the hosting country, as well as a short introduction to offshore wind in the visiting region
- to facilitate focussed one-2-one meetings between businesses, as well as allowing for informal networking
- to offer a travel package for visiting companies, to allow them to travel as a community to allow networking between regional businesses on the journey.
Based on the experience of the business networking events to date, POWER has produced a "Good Practise Guide" to provide guidance for organising one-to-one business events - click here to download the guide (word, 530KB).
To date, POWER has organised two transnational business networking events - an event between Danish and English businesses in Esbjerg, and an event with English and German businesses in Lowestoft. Feedback has been very positive, and based on this positive reaction, the POWER partnership aims to offer further similar exchanges in the near future. Watch this space!
Presentations and images of the two events are now available for download:
DK-UK Business Networking Event, 28/02-01/03/2007, Esbjerg: Page provides summary of the event, photos and presentations.
UK-DE Business Networking Event, 05-06/10/2006, Lowestoft: Page provides summary of event, feedback report, photos and presentations
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