Our Culture Book

In the beginning...

Catalin and Pascal worked together for nearly 10 years building companies including Bluemerang Capital and starting Carlyle's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Fund.

As they gained more visibility in the renewable sector, both became interested in building something longer-term and bolder.

In 2021, Pascal and Catalin launched Aukera (the Basque word for 'opportunity'). AtlasInvest partnered with them to build a company with a long-term approach. A number of colleagues from Bluemarang and the Carlyle Group joined them from the beginning and more joined later.

Scale, speed, and substance became the core of the company's vision. Aukera was designed to be entrepreneurial and human from day one, and to keep that culture as it grows.

Success can be attributed to the people, drive and commitment to excellence found company-wide at Aukera.

Our goal? By 2030 to have 5 gigawatts of operational renewable assets in Europe.

Our culture book was created by our team, workshopping what makes Aukera special and what we stand for.

Five Aspects of Aukera's Culture

Health and Safety

When moving into the construction and operations phases, we don't take chances. We are rigorous in building the highest quality health and safety practices into everything we do. The mental and physical wellbeing of our team is our highest priority.
High Performance

We aim to create an environment that consistently delivers exceptional results in our projects, investments, and individual performance through.
Freedom

We foster a high-performance culture and an entrepreneurial spirit. We're committed to developing agile systems and processes, and minimising unnecessary rules and red tape.
Teamwork

Open, cross-functional and aligned.
Team work is essential to the success of Aukera. We want to be colleagues that help motivate, teach and learn from each other.
Aukera - an Employer of Choice

We want to create a highly desirable company to work for, which maintains its entrepreneurial spirit as it scales, grows its brand appeal, and facilitates ongoing learning and career opportunities.

Our Values

Excellence

Upholds high standards. Proud to produce high quality work. Our passion inspires others. We question actions not in line with our values.
Ownership

Takes responsibility for decisions and deliverables that impact our colleagues and stakeholders without hesitation. Always considers Aukera’s needs in our goals.
Communication

Demonstrates respect: speaks openly—and listens, challenges, and shares. Ensures that every voice counts. Being efficient and concise shows consideration.
Ambition

Creates a lasting legacy through a mindset that solves problems with commercial curiosity and agility whilst learning from fail-fast thinking.
Collaboration

Works together towards shared goals and solutions. Embraces teamwork by spending serious time together—and having fun. Our collective wisdom leads to better results.
We Care

Our growth mindset is a result of valuing every person’s contribution. We prize recognition, development, and continuous learning.

Hear from our people

The marker of excellence is found in repeat business. If you survive the get-to-know-you phase, the results and positive feelings you create with your stakeholders and shareholders will set the ground for future success. If they continue to partner with you, or praise you by recommending you, you and your team are demonstrating excellence.

Kemal

Managing Director, Germany
At Aukera, we take pride in our tenacity and ambition and finding creative solutions to issues. We started developing projects in Romania before everything was 100% clear (i.e. less visible route to market or project finance). That did not stop us from going forward and be an early player. Today the renewable landscape in Romania has become much more competitive and we start to see some solutions to issues that even a few years ago were not there. Our determination to surmount obstacles remains resolute as we strive to make a meaningful impact.

Mihaela

Investment Director, Romania
I had my last day on a Friday and started with Aukera the following Monday. As soon as I arrived, it felt welcoming and that I belonged here. More importantly, when I stressed the need for health and safety to the Board, they listened. It is now the first item on the agenda of every meeting. We want to create a safe physical and psychological and cultural environment for everyone—that is the essence of caring.

Apostolos

Chief Technical Officer, UK
We can rely on our team members making smart decisions when they take into account the business as well as their own goals and targets. Ensuring that we create business value and think as an owner will help us grow and scale faster and ultimately be successful.

Cormac

Head of Development, UK