In response to the 1st PLATOON Open Call, published on 4 January 2021, the Basque Energy Cluster, working with Tecnalia, has organised an information session aimed primarily at Basque SMEs and start-ups, to provide them with information regarding this Europe-wide initiative and respond to any questions or comments they may have.

At the meeting, held online on 27 January, talks were given by the Basque Energy Cluster Managing Director, José Ignacio Hormaeche, and Erik Maqueda from Tecnalia, as Technical Coordinator of the PLATOON project. They gave a general overview of the project and the open call process to be conducted over the coming two years, focusing on the features of this first call, running from 4 January to 4 March 2021.

The 1st PLATOON Open Call, aimed at SMEs from EU member states and H2020 Associated Countries, will distribute €900,000 among 6 bottom-up projects (up to 150,000€ per project) to develop core functional and\or technical building blocks and new analytics tools for PLATOON’s large-scale pilots. The 6 awarded SMEs will enter the PLATOON Support Programme benefiting from technical mentoring services.

Through the application process, candidates will be able to propose their own challenge or to choose one of the ‘ready-made’ challenges pre-defined by the consortium, on:

• Open-source IDS Connectors on Edge
• Tool for automatic deployment of containerized applications in a Cloud or on-premises environment
• Secure Multi party computation
• PLATOON compliant data management and interoperability solution
• PLATOON Photovoltaic forecasters
• Tool for scanning maintenance logs

In order to be eligible for this call, candidates must have experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Digital Interoperability (APIs and Data models)
• Data governance, security, privacy and sovereignty
• Data Analytics applications in energy (such as Energy usage optimisation, Predictive maintenance, Demand forecast, etc.)
• Edge computing (S/H)

Interested SMEs are expected to APPLY for the 1st Open Call before March 4th, 2021 at 17:00 CET (Brussels local time).

ABOUT PLATOON

The EU-funded H2020 PLATOON project aims to digitalise the energy sector, by deploying distributed edge processing and data analytics technologies, for optimised real-time energy system management in a simple way for the energy domain expert.

The project will be validated in 7 pilots in 4 countries that provide real Energy Big Data cases. PLATOON will facilitate the technology transfer into the market by a well-established tendering process via Open Calls.

The PLATOON consortium, headed by ENGIE and with technical coordination by Tecnalia, comprises 20 partners from 9 European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland):

ENGIE; Fundación TECNALIA Research & Innovation; University of Bonn; Fraunhofer IAIS; Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.; University of Brussels; Institut Mihajlo Pupin; Giroa-Veolia; SISTEPLANT S.L.; SAMPOL Ingeniería y Obras S.A.; TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, University Library; Politecnico di Milano; Roma Capitale; Poste Italiane S.p.A.; Mandat International; FundingBox Accelerator Sp. z.o.o.; INDRA Soluciones Tecnologías de la Información, Minsait; ComSensus; Cluster de Energía – Basque Energy Cluster; Universal Device Gateway Alliance.

The Basque Energy Cluster coordinates the Industrial dissemination and communication activities in the project.

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