The first day of the workshop, 15^th of September, will be focused on the presentation of the possibilities of collaboration in the renewable energy sector and smart grids in Africa, with experts from Africa and Europe. Also, European companies that have experience in these markets will present their approach to do business in Africa. The workshop will then focus on presenting ESECA’s market reports and the results of the exploratory trips carried out to some of the target markets, the pitch presentation of European companies (including yours if interested) and their products focused for the African markets and later in the afternoon a complete B2B session among the participants.

On Friday 16^th of September, ESECA will organise in the morning several technical visit to key installations and companies in the region, with the focus on continuing the identification of collaboration opportunities. You will find attached the first draft agenda of this networking workshop.

ESECA is able to fund part of the trip to Lille to a limited number of SMEs attending the event. So please, if you are interested on coming to this event, contact Peter Rechberger before 15^th of August.

European Sustainable Energy Cluster partnership for Africa (ESECA) is a partnership formed by five European clusters (ACE, MEDEE, LE2C, MetaIndustry4 and ECPE) from Spain, France, Italy and Germany. Together, we gather around 550 organizations and 290 SMEs. The main goal of ESECA is to intensify business network collaboration among European companies (mostly SMEs) in the renewable energy and electrical power generation, distribution and transmission sectors, in order to develop a joint internationalisation strategy plan with common goals towards Sub-Saharan African markets.