Energy is a sector that may act as future driver for competitiveness in the NSR. BEPPo focuses on Blue Energy (wave/tidal) and its complementarity with traditional (gas/oil/coal) & new (wind/biomass) sources of power, building on the innovation capacity of NSR ports to become bases for the production of integrated sustainable renewables, thus ensuring reliable & affordable supplies of clean, green energy. It provides a unique opportunity to develop marine energy platforms in ports & promote local business opportunities to accelerate economic growth in port regions. Achievements: • Organisation of the transnational workshop “Turning marine energy research into practice” with marine energy devices´producers and ports• Joint analysis of the partners´ blue energy plans and links with relevant policies, exploring options to exploit port facilities as operational base for the production of marine energy and related logistic/ transport/ technical requirements• Organisation of the transnational worhshop ”How to develop marine energy platforms in North Sea Region ports: constraints & opportunities“ • Organisation of 2 B2B events brokering relationships between marine energy businesses/SMEs and their potential end-users• Creation of a wide database and network of organisations of BEPPo partners’ marine energy generation test plants (in Oostende, Hanstholm) / marine energy parks (Highlands) and other external relevant stakeholders• Meetings with local/ regional/ national policy makers to ease energy development plans in the BEPPo ports and disseminate results of marine energy experiemental tests• Involvement of local communities in the development of marine energy sites to divulge the need for renewables and demonstrate the viability of port-based solutionsDocuments:Interact Project Achievements Report_BEPPo_NSR ProgrammeFor more information please visit: http://archive.northsearegion.eu/ivb/projects/details/&tid=155&back=yes