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Offshore-Windpark mit Windrädern und einem Schiff bei Sonnenuntergang über dem Meer.
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The 2026 North Sea Summit and offshore cooperation

dena is responsible for designing, planning and implementing the 2026 North Sea Summit, together with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Goal: to accelerate the expansion of offshore energy and achieve it as synergistically and cost-efficiently as possible

Topics: Renewable energies, Funding, Overall system, Business models, Industry, Infrastructure, International partnership, Hydrogen, Generating and distributing energy

Runtime: since 2024

Offshore-Windturbinen auf See während des Sonnenaufgangs
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Our mission

dena was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action to design, implement and prepare the follow-up work on the 2026 North Sea Summit. It also oversees the accompanying energy policy process. In addition, dena initiates, supports and promotes offshore cooperation activities. The focus is on the expansion of offshore wind power and the necessary cross-border interconnectors. dena will provide the support for the offshore activities of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in terms of expertise and content throughout the duration of the project.

Großer Off-Shore-Windpark bei Sonnenuntergang
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Our approach

dena identifies suitable concepts for the North Sea Summit. Participatory methods are primarily used to achieve the ideal involvement of all relevant stakeholders in the participating countries. dena also facilitates the accompanying process to reach a consensus for the summit declarations by organising events using participatory approaches. Visibility is given to the offshore cooperation through communicative means so that the cooperation has the greatest possible impact. To this end, dena is developing a communication concept.

The milestones of the project include:

  • Concept development and implementation of two internal workshops to develop the summit concepts and support offshore cooperation
  • Overall concept of the summit and communication concept
  • Summit programme
  • Summit declarations

 

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