CLEAN ENERGY INNOVATIVE PROJECTS

Their core work

Clean Energy Innovative Projects is a Belgian SME that participates in EU-funded Innovation Actions — real-world implementation projects rather than basic research. Their work spans two distinct but adjacent domains: sustainable nutrient recovery for low-impact fertilizers (RUN4LIFE) and community-scale energy systems aimed at local energy self-sufficiency (RENergetic). In the RENergetic project, they contributed to the development of community-empowered multi-vector energy islands — decentralized energy systems designed to achieve energy autarky at neighborhood or district level. Their profile suggests a project development or innovation consultancy role, bringing market-facing or implementation expertise to research-led consortia rather than conducting laboratory work themselves.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first H2020 project (RUN4LIFE, 2017) had no energy connection — it focused on recovering nutrients from wastewater streams to produce sustainable fertilizers, which is a circular economy and environmental engineering domain. By 2020, with RENergetic, their focus had shifted entirely toward community-scale clean energy: energy islands, autarky, and the socio-economic conditions for local energy independence. This is not a gradual drift but a relatively sharp pivot from circular resource recovery to decentralized energy systems, which may reflect the company's strategic repositioning or a broadening of its clean-energy mandate.

They are moving toward community-scale renewable energy deployment and the socio-economic frameworks that make local energy self-sufficiency viable — a growing policy priority across the EU under the Energy Communities directive.

How they like to work

They have never led an H2020 project, participating exclusively as consortium partners across both projects. Despite this, they have accumulated 34 unique partner organizations across 12 countries from just two projects, which suggests they join large, well-networked Innovation Action consortia rather than small bilateral research partnerships. This pattern is typical of SMEs that bring a specific implementation, market access, or stakeholder engagement capability that consortia need but cannot provide internally.

With 34 unique consortium partners across 12 countries from only two projects, their per-project network density is high — averaging 17 partners per project. This points to participation in large, pan-European Innovation Actions with broad multi-country representation.

What sets them apart

This is one of the few Belgian private SMEs in H2020 with hands-on participation in both nutrient circular economy projects and community energy island deployments — two sectors that increasingly intersect in integrated rural and peri-urban sustainability planning. Their exclusive focus on Innovation Actions (as opposed to research projects) means their contribution is oriented toward real-world deployment and market uptake, not academic outputs. For consortia building implementation-stage projects on decentralized energy or sustainable resource loops, they offer practitioner-level grounding rather than theoretical expertise.

Highlights from their portfolio

• RENergetic
  Their most recent and largest thematically aligned project, focused on community-empowered energy islands — directly matching their organization name and apparent strategic direction toward local energy autarky.
• RUN4LIFE
  Their highest-funded project (EUR 559,030) and an unexpected entry point into circular economy and sustainable agriculture, revealing a broader environmental mandate beyond clean energy.