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Currently, technical, financial, regulatory, and other barriers prevent many EU fishers, aquaculture producers from accelerating the energy transition in the sector. Working together with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve concrete and practical solutions is therefore essential for making the transition.
The Energy Transition Partnership (ETP) invites all stakeholders which genuine interest in accelerating the transition, to work together on a voluntary basis to bring forward the energy transition in the sector. It will be the platform for stakeholder dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. Stakeholders expressing interest in the Partnership will participate in dialogues and workshops of different themes, notably on innovation, knowledge gaps, technology, skills and finance.
This work will be the basis for the development of a voluntary roadmap with measurable milestones and actions for the energy transition of the EU fisheries and aquaculture sector towards climate neutrality by 2050. The roadmap will be developed jointly by the participants stakeholders and the European Commission and will be delivered by 2024.
The ETP will bring together key stakeholders to:
- Gather a community of actors;
- Start a dialogue within the sector about opportunities and challenges of the energy transition on the topic of the energy transition;
- Discuss and develop common strategic approaches for furthering the energy transition in the sector;
- Contribute to a roadmap with concrete and feasible actions to accelerate the transition in the sector;
- Showcase concrete examples of initiatives from stakeholders, and give visibility to the projects and best practices on energy transition.
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Who can participate
All concerned stakeholders who can contribute to the energy transition in the fisheries and aquaculture sector are welcome to join and to engage under the Energy Transition Partnership. This includes stakeholder from the fisheries and aquaculture sector; the ancillary activities sector; the processing sector; fishing port authorities; shipbuilders; gear manufacturers; NGOs; Advisory Councils; research organisations and academia; financial institutions; the energy sector; and national and regional public authorities.
How to express your interest
You can express interest in joining the Energy Transition Partnership by filling in the REGISTRATION FORM.
The Energy Transition Partnership aims to set up an open, transparent, inclusive framework to enhance collaboration, align intents with other partners, mobilise resources and develop activities and solutions to deliver on the energy transition in the sector. This expression of interest is non-binding and open to any public or private interested party in the EU with an interest to contribute to bringing further the energy transition in the sector.
Workshops of the ETP
DG MARE will organise several workshops within the context of the Energy Transition Partnership. The workshops will follow the main areas identified in the Communication on the Energy Transition in EU fisheries and aquaculture.
The first workshop will cover financing of the energy transition and will take place on 28 November 2023.More workshops will be announced soon.
The high-level conference Joining Forces for the Energy Transition in EU Fisheries and Aquaculture
The conference that took place on 16 June 2023 marked the start of new stakeholder cooperation on the energy transition in the sector, with panel discussions, pitches and networking with speakers from the fisheries and aquaculture sector, European institutions, research, financial institutes on the topics of stakeholder cooperation, finance, technology, innovation, skills and more.
It was the launch of the process of establishing the new Energy Transition Partnership for the fisheries and aquaculture sector, bringing together all the stakeholders that are needed to act together to accelerate the transition towards a resilience and climate-neutral sector by 2050.
You can watch the full recording of the HL conference here and see the presentations here.
Best practices on energy transition in fisheries and aquaculture
Here you can access the information on the best practices on energy transition in the sector. If you have other examples of best practices to share please contact us.
Guide on financing the energy transition in fisheries and aquaculture
One of the actions from the Communication was the preparation and publishing of a guide with all available EU funding that can be used for the energy transition projects of fisheries and aquaculture.
Stay tuned, the guide will be shortly available!!!