Saving and producing energy using environment-friendly technologies, even better if from renewable sources. This key goal of European policies concerns society as a whole: citizens, businesses, institutions, research organizations. There are many initiatives and projects dealing with these topics that are being carried out all over the continent, and  AREA Science Park will be at EOS, the Exposition of Sustainability held at the Udine Fairground, to present those in which the Trieste-based science park is involved.

Three appointments are scheduled on May 17^th: the first is an international conference organized as part of the Strategic Project MARIE -Mediterranean Building: Rethinking for Energy Efficiency Improvement, funded by the European program MED. The conference will focus on how public administrations can support innovation by contracting R&D services to companies competing to develop new technologically complex or cutting-edge solutions, for instance, in the energy efficiency market. By way of this pre commercial procurement procedure, public administrations would become the driving elements and first users of new promising solutions. 

The second appointment involves the innovative technologies outlined in ENERPLAN, the Energy Plan co-funded by AREA and the Italian Ministry for the Environment. The solutions developed in this plan to produce energy in a more efficient and environment-friendly way will be presented to administrators, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in the energy sector: eight power plants displaying different innovative technical features and  functioning also as technological development and industrial testing labs.

The third and last appointment on the agenda of the AREA Science Park Day at EAOS - where AREA will continue to be present with its 130-square meter stand - aims at creating B2B opportunities between companies coming from  Mediterranean countries, with a view to encouraging technical and business collaboration in the field of energy efficient buildings. This technology dating event is promoted by Enterprise Europe Network , in collaboration with the  MARIE project.   The over one hundred members of the Network are companies (such as Telecom and Siemens), research centers, university departments, international agencies, and Petrol, a  major Slovenian corporation operating in the oi&gas industry as well as in the field of renewable energy.