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INTERREG POCTEFA

Cross border, Turning Border Obstacles into Opportunities

POCTEFA

POCTEFA is a European cross-border cooperation program created to promote the sustainable development of the border territory of Spain, France and Andorra. It helps to reduce the differences in the development of the territory and to join forces to achieve a sustainable development of the region and the cohesion of the regions that form it. In short, the program, thanks to European funds, helps to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the area.

Thematic priorities: 

  1. Creating a common space for knowledge and innovation
  2. Protecting and consolidating ecological values
  3. Facilitating access to employment and training
  4. Building an inclusive and socially integrated space.
  5. Promoting sustainable tourism and develop culture.
  6. To territorially, socially and economically vertebrate the space.
  7. Towards a more integrated cross-border area

Cooperation areas:

  • ESPAÑA: Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa, Araba /Álava, Navarra, La Rioja, Huesca, Zaragoza, Lleida, Girona and Barcelona.
  • FRANCE: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hautes Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Orientales.
  • ANDORRA: All territory.

Call calendar:

Call Priorities Opening date Closing date Geographic area
1st call - Traditional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 09/03/2023 31/05/2023 (closed) POCTEFA
AFOMEF 6 23/05/2024 23/10/2024 AFOMEF
2nd call - Traditional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 15/01/2025 2,5 months after opening POCTEFA
Small projects 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 15/01/2025 4 months after opening POCTEFA
Interreg Objective 7 1st semester 2025 Pending POCTEFA

More information: https://www.poctefa.eu

INTERREG POCTEFA Projects

EKATE - Management of Photovoltaic Electric Power and Shared Self-Consumption in the French-Spain cross-border area, using Blockchain technology and Internet of Things (IoT)

Specific programme: Cooperation Programme Interreg V-A España-Francia-Andorra (Interreg POCTEFA)
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: ARITZA CAMBLONG RUIZ
Project start: 01/12/2019
Project end:   31/05/2022

Brief description: The future electricity network will be decentralized, decarbonized, digitized and intelligent. And in this network, short energy circuits that use local natural resources will be a priority. The POCTEFA space has exceptional environmental capital and local energy resources, which require an improvement in exploitation techniques, mainly through innovation.

To do this, the territory has leading entities and innovation centers, in sectors such as Renewable Energy (EERR).

Thus, among 6 partner organizations, the development of the EKATE project aims to respond to these challenges by focusing on photovoltaic (PV) installations in shared self-consumption, which need an effective system for managing energy exchanges. In this way, EKATE aims to locate the POCTEFA perimeter as a reference in technologies of and for self-consumption shared with the following objective: to demonstrate and develop efficient and intelligent services for the management of electricity through the generation of renewable photovoltaic energy and shared selfconsumption, using technology "Blockchain" and "Internet of Things (IoT)".

And for this, 3 technical actions will be developed that will group different innovative activities: diagnosis, review opportunities, implementation of 2 demonstration experiences on shared self-consumption of PV electric power in P. Atlantiques and Catalunya through innovative technologies of Blockchain and IoT, evaluation of them and extension plan.

Taking advantage of the existence of a legal framework for shared self-consumption, the main results will be the implementation of innovative technologies in pilot facilities for shared self-consumption and the development of new business models that will serve as a reference to the new PV facilities that are expected to be numerous in the next few years in the POCTEFA perimeter.

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