SiEUGreen - Deliverable 5.7 Establishment of Sustainability Working Group

The current Deliverable 5.7 – Establishment of Sustainability Working Group, provides an overview of the establishment of the SiEUGreen Sustainability Working Group (SWG). Its structure is realised on the vision of SiEUGreen project partners to guide the long-term sustainability to ensure showcase activities in partnership with local community stakeholders, private sector organisations and governmental partners, and promote concrete results, products and services beyond the end of the SiEUGreen project term (as to be developed within D5.4 Sustainability and Exploitation Plan – M30). In that sense, SWGs are groups of excellence and sustainability composed of key stakeholders from SiEUGreen project - showcase implementation teams - (core part), and local stakeholders and experts non-directly involved in the project. SWGs are formed as counseling bodies with a two-fold objective: i) primarily focus on supporting the sustainability of the concepts and results developed within the SiEUGreen showcases, in terms of their sustainability plans ii) boost the exploitation and replication of SiEUGreen results (with a special focus on strategies of the showcases, in terms of their exploitation plans). Due to the complexity and different characteristics of the showcases, the SWGs will have a showcase orientation, resulting in the establishment of SWGs per showcase. Apart from the showcase level SWGs an overarching group is set to support exchange across the showcases in terms of knowledge sharing and exploitation. The main activities will be realized within the overall duration of the showcases deployment in the form of activities to support engagement, dissemination and the realization of sustainability and exploitation plans of the showcases. The whole activity will be performed within Task 5.2 and the insights of the SWGs will be reported within the Deliverable D5.4 Sustainability and Exploitation Plan and D5.5 Business Plan. The document is structured in 5 chapters. Chapter 1 presents an overview of the objectives and the role of the SWG in the SiEUGreen project while Chapter 2 presents the implementation framework and activities of the SGW. The document continues with the SWGs composition in Chapter 3 and concludes with the planning for the SWG activities in the upcoming period in Chapter 4