Jointly prepared by the project parnters, the EU-India Cleantech Strategy will be the key supporting document and outcome of the initiative. It will analyse opportunities for EU-India collaboration on clean technology and include policy recommendations.

The Strategy should take the following outline:

1. Context and role of EU-India Cleantech collaboration
• Environmental challenges in India
• Climate change and the need for greenhouse gas mitigation
• Emerging economic and political frameworks
• The role and need for cleantech international collaboration
• The role of and opportunities for business involvement in cleantech development
2. Lessons learnt from the companies’ experience
• Successes and failures of the participating companies in developing cleantech partnerships with India
• Considerations for successful collaboration
3. Key areas of collaboration and key stakeholders
• Energy and environmental services
• Energy supply and access
• Sustainable chemistry and materials
• Potential public partners
• Potential partners among private companies
• Potential partners from civil society
4. Financial and regulatory issues
• Possible sources and forms of financing collaborative cleantech projects in India
• Possible forms of collaboration
• The issue of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
5. Policy recommendations
• Current strength and insufficiency of policy signals
• Support and role expected from policy-making in developing cleantech international partnerships
• Set of recommendations
6. Commitments from the participating companies
• Developing partnerships with India
• Reporting on cleantech collaboration with India to the EU-India Cleantech Initiative
7. Follow-up committee
• Tasks of the follow-up committee: drafting, amending, reporting, publicising, lobbying
• Composition of the follow-up committee