INNOVER-EAST Brokerage Event in Energy Efficiency and Energy was held on May 12, 2016, in Minsk

INNOVER-EAST Brokerage Event in Energy Efficiency and Energy was held on May 12, 2016, in Minsk and was very successful especially among Belarussin stakeholders. The event was organized by “ENECA” VLC, BelAPE and BelISA, INNOVER-EAST partners in Belarus with the support from the International Center for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (Croatia), within the EU-funded project INNOVER-EAST.

Aims of the event were to facilitate the matchmaking of research organizations and businesses with the aim of upscaling and commercializing research results and innovative products; to make the local innovation players aware of selected local and EU financial instruments to support their innovation activities; to improve skills of the Belarusian INNOVER-EAST partners in organizing brokerage events; to serve as a pilot action for INNOVER-EAST EAP partners and their twins and provide lessons for improving services on organization of the national brokerages and in particular the final brokerage event in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (early 2017); to promote the final INNOVER-EAST brokerage event in Ukraine among the Belarusian innovation players.