Collaboration within IEA Sample Clauses

Collaboration within IEA. The selection of the topics in the Annexes is based on the ambition to share research activities and collectively collaborate. In this way, it avoids duplication of work and uses national research funds more effectively. This approach creates strong international relations among research groups, institutes and industry. Network established leads to new joint activities in other forums as well. Important advantage for this approach is that researches are exposed to more and new ideas. These boost the level and excellence of R&D on energy storage. On the national level, each ECES country will be encouraged to organize IEA IA days to strengthen the links among different stakeholders – ExCo delegates, government representatives, experts from research and industry. Presentations at national workshops with special focus are also recommended as activities to increase collaboration. An example for this can be given from Germany. In 2015, we presented IEA and ECES at the second workshop of the German joint RD&D Initiative on Energy Storage Technologies. Some of the other IEA IAs tie in nicely with the work of ECES. Where possible ECES seeks to establish cross cutting activities such as currently done with the SHC program. Other cross cutting initiatives may be expected with IEA EBC, HPP, SolarPACES and ISGAN. ECES will continue to participate in IEA coordination groups such as BCG, TCG and ISG and workshops organized by different bodies of IEA. One such recent event was EGRD workshop on energy storage in Berlin. ECES represented its aims and strategies and results of Annex 26, Electric Energy Storage: Future Energy Storage Demand at this workshop.