CO-CREATION OF ENERGY-ORIENTED NEEDS MAPS – Objective is to coordinate on-fields activities in case-study areas in order to make them comparable and coherent. The starting working method, applied & tested during the WP on-field activities, will be developed into the PoWER Method for energy-oriented needs mapping. Such method will focus, through an holistic & integrated approach, on the energy needs to be surveyed in the sake of the creation of energy-related scenarios (WP4); key-elements of the method will be local stakeholders engagement for the co-creation of the needs maps and the
adoption of GIS technology.

ENTREPRENEURIAL GAMING AND SCOUTING – This activity aims at
incubating the Innovation Hubs Network (IHN), a network of ports in which
innovation supply chains are created by:
– integrating innovation key actors of the territory (schools, Universities,
research centres, enterprise etc.);
– engagement of enterprises and research through a call for solutions;
– gaming sessions open to students from schools and Universities, in order
to stimulate new business and research ideas;
– networking for merging the 3 innovation levels (enterprise, education and research) into integrated innovation supply chains.

SCENARIOS FORESIGHT – This activity aims at co-producing a shared
pathway of evolution of ports into Innovation Hubs (IHs), according to the WP objectives:
– co-creation of energy-oriented scenarios in each of the case-studies, by
means of a Strategic Foresight based on the data gathered and the assessment regarding energy supply-demand, infrastructures, socio-economic conditions, as well as on the ideas&solutions individuated in
the abovementioned activity;
– participation to the co-creation processes of the local/regional
(companies, research centers, public agencies, schools & Universities), in
order to customize and tune perspectives & solutions on the real-life
exigencies of the case-studies and to foster transnational cooperation for
developing a critical mass, so to create a competitive advantage for the ADRION area;
– joint elaboration of the Strategy for the evolution of ports into IHs, which
will constitute the reference document of the IHN;
– the Strategy will be composed of different interlinked layers, corresponding to the main shared issues and challenges derived by the local case studies, starting from the energy-oriented outcomes of the project, and will allow to activate further thematic processes according to the PoWER joint approach;
– development of an open Platform for supporting the implementation of
the Strategy after the project finalization; the Platform will be structured
according to the layout of the Strategy, and will be extensible in accordance to new strategic layers that will come out from the IHN
activities.