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EUROGIA+ succeeds to EUROGIA, a EUREKA Cluster dedicated to fossil fuels only (coal excepted) that was launched by France during the 2004 Ministerial Conference in Paris.

EUROGIA+ extends its thematic to all energy technologies that will:
- reduce the carbon footprint of energy production and use,
- facilitate the migration to the hydrogen economy,
- develop new technologies for energy such as solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, energy efficiency, etc.

This new R&D programme, approved in Ljubljana on June 6^th 2008 during the EUREKA Ministerial Conference, addresses most of the energy mix challenges. It aims at promoting and supporting European industry competitiveness in the Oil & Gas engineering, manufacturing, supply and service industry as well as the renewable energies industries.

EUROGIA founding members joined up with 18 companies, 14 Research Laboratories, 2 government agencies and 3 associations representing another 6 countries (Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway and Spain) to propose this new initiative and promote collaborative projects that will involve SMEs, specialised Research Institutes and University laboratories.

"EUROGIA+" EUREKA label has been supported by 15 countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Monaco, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey.
This list is not limitative as other EUREKA Member Countries may join later.

The companies that have supported the EUROGIA+ proposal have held a General Assembly on July 10th, 2008 to organise the new Cluster's governance.
The 1st Call for proposals will be announced early September 2008 so that the first EUROGIA+ approved projects can start early 2009.

The rest of this website will be updated accordingly. However the basic functioning of the new Cluster will not be much different from the past. Therefore any protential project coordinator can temporarily use the documents from the "Current Call" page to draft a Project Outline.

For reference:

• EUROGIA+  White Book (Programme Overview & Technical Annex)    
• Presentation to EUREKA (Ljubljana - 4 Jun. 08)