The 2 Trondheim analysis heavyweights SINTEF and NTNU are working intently collectively in Brussels. The rewards for Norwegian companies could be nice, each when it comes to innovation and revenues.
Three years in the past, SINTEF and NTNU opened a joint workplace in Brussels, since when the workplace has been answerable for the coordination of a number of new EU analysis tasks.
“NTNU and SINTEF have been working in Europe for a while now and have a superb community involving each companies and analysis centres”, says SINTEF CEO Alexandra Bech Gjørv. “We’re working across the clock in our seek for new wealth creation alternatives”, she says.
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Even when the institutes’ presence within the EU capital is primarily to advertise alternatives for collaboration, there’s additionally a variety of funding up for grabs. In three years’ time, the analysis and innovation programme Horizon Europe might be launched, providing funding within the area of EUR 100 billion, which is near a thousand billion Norwegian kroner.
Invited to collaborate
On Tuesday of this week, NTNU and SINTEF invited the Norwegian enterprise neighborhood, key people from the Norwegian EU delegation, and different supporters to a seminar in Brussels. Attendees got an introduction to the Horizon Europe programme, and mentioned their expectations and ambitions in relation to its growth.
“It’s vital for Norwegian companies to get entangled within the competitors for European funding as a result of it promotes innovation”, says Arvid Moss, President of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). “It focuses the minds of our greatest researchers on turning into aggressive with different European analysis centres, and likewise helps to make sure that companies place themselves on the very forefront of innovation”, he says.
“The EU is at the moment organising the following Framework Programme”, says NTNU Rector Gunnar Bovim. “The Norwegian enterprise neighborhood has no time to lose. The EU has already indicated that it is going to be investing extra in small- and medium-sized companies than was the case for the H2020 programme. From a Norwegian viewpoint, we’ve got to place ourselves and take part in organising panels and teams, as a result of Europe must know extra about this”, he says.
Brussels workplace boosts alternatives
“How will Norwegian companies get a foothold within the EU programmes?” asks Bovim. “Innovation Norway and the Analysis Council can act as door-openers, however I imagine that collaboration with analysis centres comparable to SINTEF and NTNU signify the important thing to success.”
“Actually, that is simpler than many companies suppose, and our expertise is that a few of those that have been right here for a lot of years are reaping the rewards”, he says.
The joint workplace has boosted alternatives to revenue from the distinctive collaboration between NTNU and SINTEF in reference to the H2020 tasks during which each organisations have shared pursuits and complement one another.
“We’re going through huge modifications within the world aggressive market”, says Bech Gjørv. “Know-how and digitalisation are key components right here, so we should grasp the alternatives and put together for the dangers. I imagine that working along with different companies and the main analysis centres in Norway and Europe is a superb technique to reaching these targets”, she says.
Good alternatives for Norway
“I see wonderful alternatives for Norwegian trade to acquire its share of Horizon Europe tasks, particularly within the classes ‘World Challenges’ and ‘Industrial Competitiveness’”, says Signe Ratso, Deputy Director-Basic on the European Fee.
“Norway is very competent in lots of the fields at the moment addressing world challenges. Norwegian corporations can thus each contribute to, and reap the advantages of, the Horizon Europe programme in fields comparable to power, the maritime sector and eco-friendly trade” she says.
In conclusion: “Norwegian enterprise has so much to supply when it comes to growing a greater Europe for the long run”, says NTNU Rector Bovim.
This text was initially printed by our mates at Gemini and is republished right here with permission.
