Ateknea Solutions provides business and technological excellence to small and medium-sized enterprises to develop their ideas into profitable innovative solutions. By operating at a European level for over 15 years, Ateknea aims to assist SMEs in transforming their ideas into real marketable products and services for their success. Ateknea Solutions relies on the engineering and scientific solutions developed by more 100 research engineers and scientists, and 30 PhDs covering a wide range of knowledge areas.

ateknea.com

Boa Energia is a company, founded in July 2012, aimed at promoting citizen engagement in the development of renewable energy projects. Its main objective is to contribute to the creation of a new energetic paradigm based on decentralized production, energy efficiency and community engagement.

www.boaenergia.pt

Lumo is a French crowdfunding website which enables citizens to invest directly in renewable energy projects (wind, solar, hydro). With Lumo, citizens can invest as little as € 25 in a local project that has been developed together with its municipality.

Lumo’s vision is that civic crowdinvesting has the potential to contribute to the energy transition financing while providing citizens with a new saving product which is both sustainable and low-risk. The low-risk of this investment is based on the feed-in-tariff guaranteed by EDF (the French Electricity Company) for 20 years. Therefore, citizens can invest in a chosen renewable energy project alongside the banks and benefit from the same features as the bank loan (12 to 18 years maturity and a gross interest rate of 3 to 5 % per annum). Compiles with other, this investment enables the renewable energy project to be built. Once the installation generates clean electricity, it is sold to EDF through a long term contract. This revenue it produces pays back the citizen investor, with interests, over every year of its investment horizon.

In France, Lumo is pioneer in offering RES crowdfunding through debt acquisition.

www.lumo-france.com

Abundance Generation was the world’s first implement RES project crowdfunding platform. It is an FCA-regulated, online retail finance business, which has created an innovative regulatory structure that allows anyone in a local community as well as the wider UK public to invest in renewable energy projects with a minimum investment of only £5. Using a low cost model, operating through an exciting internet platform, investors can follow all the news on their projects and get real-time updates on electricity generated and money earned.

www.abundancegeneration.com

Green Crowding is a crowd lending website for tangible sustainable projects, such as installing solar panels on a school. It helps small, private investors to compare tangible sustainable investment opportunities and eases the process of undertaking the investment. Green Crowding enables renewable cooperatives and similar project developers find finance from their local communities by making optimal use of online marketing channels and building a good relationship with their investors. Local community projects also receive advice as regards legal procedures and contracts. Green Crowding takes a commission fee from the recipient of the investment.

greencrowding.com

Som Energia (we are energy) is a Spanish renewable energy cooperative. It was founded by 150 citizens in 2010 in Catalonia and in three and a half years the number of members grew exponentially to 14.423, spread throughout Spain, and with a growing rate of almost 150 new members each week in 2013.

As a non-profit cooperative Som Energia started selling Green energy from existing sources in October 2011. Meanwhile they are developing their own cost-effective renewable energy projects to produce energy for their members.

They have already invested 3.572.100 euros from their associates in several photovoltaic plants, in one biogas power plant and in a biomass project (thermal use).

www.somenergia.coop

De Windvogel- De Windvogel is a windcooperative from the Netherlands. De Windvogel has around 3000 members who own six windturbines collectively. Membership of the co-op has doubled in the last two years. De Windvogel is a clear pioneer in citizen RES projects, having started in 1991 and building is first windturbine by 1993.

www.windvogel.nl

The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) is a professional network promoting transparency, adequate regulation and governance while offering a combined voice in policy discussion and public opinion building on the Crowdfunding sector.

www.europecrowdfunding.org

Active Citizenship Network (ACTIVE) is a European network of civic organizations created in 2001 coordinated by Cittadinanzattiva, an Italian non-profit organisation founded in 1978 and located in Rome. It is a flexible network based on partnership and on the participation in common projects and activities. Over the past 10 years, ACTIVE has carried out about 30 EU projects together with about 90 national civic organizations in 29 European countries.

www.activecitizenship.net

EURADA, the European Association of Development Agencies, was formally created in 1991 and has since then managed a network of about 100 regional development agencies from across the European Union. Agencies from almost all the Member States of the EU are EURADA members. Eurada took leadership in disseminating new practices, both in the field of economic development (clusters, business angels, crowdfunding, …) and in the management of regional development agencies (ISO9001, penta-helix, management of equity funds, …).

www.eurada.org

Climate Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 1,700 European local authorities in 24 countries that have committed to the ambitious target of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every five years. Support comes from the association’s European Secretariat which organises the exchange of experiences, develops methodologies to help members in setting up local climate strategies, develops and coordinates European projects with and for member cities and represents members’ demands and positions at the national and European levels.

www.climatealliance.org

UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in more than 170 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. The Energy and Environment or GREEN programme at UNDP Croatia addresses the environmental, economic and social challenges of fighting climate change and securing sustainable energy for all people as well as of preserving biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.

www.hr.undp.org

Eupportunity is a Portuguese consultancy company specialised in European affairs with a team with broad experience in European policies and affairs, European law, European funding instruments, market analysis and communication.

www.eupportunity.eu

The University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), founded in 1495, is one of the university institutions with a great tradition in Europe. The USC has been qualified in 2009 as International Campus of Excellence by the Spanish Ministries of Education and Science and Innovation by its project called Life Campus.

www.usc.es