European Technology for Sustainability

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European Technology for Sustainabillity - eT4S - suppport the development of collaboration and business agreements between the EU and North America (North East Coast of the USA- and between the EU and Asia/Asean (Singapore and China ic. Shanghai). eT4S focus on technology enabled solutions addressing sustainability challenges in urban areas (water, air, energy, waste etc.). eT4S is managed by a consortium which is embedded within the SmartCityTech partnership and can leverage on the expertise and network build by this partnership since 2013. eT4S has as goals: 1. To develop viable cooperation and business agreements in the eT4S domain. eT4S will explore concrete opportunities in the target regions hereby leveraging on the existing beachhead network which was already developed through the Smart City Tech partnership. This has to lead to at least 2 collaboration agreements and 4 business agreements. 2. To ncrease te likelihood of impactful internationalization by developing a online assessment strategy and grant access to support by internationalization experts either in the Eu and in the target countries. At least 12 cluster organizations will follow this assessment strategy and 75 companies will benefit from the the support of the experts. 3. To organise events in EU to prepare the companies for internationalization, will organize webinars to get acquainted with the target market, will organize matchmaking missions toward the target markets and will provide follow up toward the business agreements. In total eT4S will support more than 160 individual matchmakings, will support/organize at least 16 events, make at least 75 companies benefit and strives for a 5% increase in turnover and employment reported by the companies involved. 4. To support all the activities with the a sound communication strategy, involving the eT4S partners's network, the SmartCityTech ecosystemen, the European Cluster Ecosystem (ECCP) and the ecosystem of the beachhead partners.