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New technology and strategy for a large and sustainable deployment of second generation biofuel in rural areas (BABET-REAL5)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The business model currently under development for second generation ethanol is a replication of the model used for first generation which is plants with massive annual production capacities. Such high production rates require high capital investment and huge amounts of biomasses (250-350,000 tons per year) concentrated in small radius catchment areas to afford transportation costs (50 km). Under ...
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Building-integrated photovoltaic technologies and systems for large-scale market deployment (PVSITES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is currently an expansive market. Market analysts estimate a compound annual growth rate of 18,7% and a total of 5,4 GW installed worldwide between 2013 and 2019. One of the main drivers for BIPV market growth in the EU is the increasingly demanding legislation related to energy performance in buildings. The large potential for energy savings in buildings l ...
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Conversion of Low Grade Heat to Power through closed loop Reverse Electro-Dialysis (RED-Heat-to-Power)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The concept is based on the generation of electricity from salinity gradient using Reverse Electrodialysis with artificial saline solutions operating in a closed-loop. The original salinity gradient is regenerated by a separation step that uses heat at 40 - 100 C. The regenerated solutions can be stored at very low costs and the stack can react within seconds, providing flexibility to the power sy ...
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INdustrial and tertiary product Testing and Application of Standards (INTAS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

There is a need to strengthen the capacity of Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs) to conduct Ecodesign related market surveillance activities with respect to new and pending industrial and tertiary sector products. Especially in the case of customised products which are unsuitable for testing in laboratories. There is a lack of expertise, experience, and resources available across Europe for su ...
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Best practices and implementation of innovative business models for Renewable Energy aggregatorS (BestRES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Europe´s electricity sector is in the midst of major transformation moving from public monopolies to competitive private companies in liberalized markets. The liberalization is expected to increase competition and thus increase cost-efficiency in energy production, transmission and distribution with the result of decreasing electricity prices. The efforts of Member State governments to create a mo ...
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Bioenergy Villages (BioVill) - Increasing the Market Uptake of Sustainable Bioenergy (BioVill)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The overall objective of BioVill is to develop regional bioenergy concepts in Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Romania up to the investment stage in order to become “bioenergy villages”. This will increase the market uptake of bioenergy on the basis of cooperation with partners from countries with established bioenergy markets (Austria, Germany). The following specific objectives and activ ...
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Market uptake of small modular renewable district heating and cooling grids for communities (CoolHeating)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"The objective of CoolHeating is to support the implementation of "small modular renewable heating and cooling grids" for communities in South-Eastern Europe. This will be achieved through knowledge transfer and mutual activities of partners in countries where renewable district heating and cooling examples exist (Austria, Denmark, Germany) and in countries which have less development (Croatia, Sl ...
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Fostering Sustainable Feedstock Production for Advanced Biofuels on underutilised land in Europe (FORBIO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Sustainable bioenergy production and use in the EU should be further developed in order to support Member States (MS) achieving 20-20-20 targets and foster rural development as set out in EIP AGRI. FORBIO will demonstrate the viability of using land in MSs for non-food bioenergy feedstock production without interfering with the production of food or feed, nor with land currently used for recreatio ...
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"2,000 TON/Y INDUSTRIAL SCALE DEMONSTRATION BIOREFINERY ON LIGNIN-BASED AVIATION FUEL" (BIOREFLY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"Potential funding from the European Commission (FP7 – Call Energy.2013.3.2.1) would be used in the BIOREFLY Project in the design, procurement, construction and operation of an advanced 2,000 ton/y paraffinic aviation fuel pre-commercial industrial demonstration plant in Italy, for the conversion of organic residues (such as lignin derived from the conversion of lignocellulosic feedstock into bio ...
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Support to all stakeholders from the Photovoltaic sector and related sectors to contribute to the SET-Plan (ETIP PV - SEC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The European Technology and Innovation Platform Photovoltaics (ETIP PV), hereinafter the Platform, is an independent organization of solar energy experts and professionals with a full coverage of relevant backgrounds. It develops joint European strategies and plans in the fields of research & innovation and education as well as market development. It also serves as the recognised point of referen ...
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Development of innovative educational material for building-integrated photovoltaics

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) are PV elements used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope, increasingly being incorporated into the construction of new buildings as a source of electrical power. The advantage of integrated PV over common non-integrated systems is that the initial cost can be offset by reducing the amount spent on building materials ...
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Promoting stakeholder engagement and public awareness for a participative governance of the European bioeconomy (BioSTEP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The bioeconomy holds potential solutions to important challenges of the future. The social, economic and environmental impacts associated with its products and processes, however, will require extensive dialogue processes on the future development of the bioeconomy. For this purpose, BioSTEP will apply a three-tier approach which aims at reaching all relevant actors in the bioeconomy domain, parti ...
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Unleashing the potential of Crowdfunding for Financing Renewable Energy Projects (CrowdFundRES)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

We are currently seeing a deceleration of renewable energy growth in Europe. This is partly attributed to the challenges for financing renewable energy projects. Reduced access to conventional financing options over the past few years has triggered innovative financing schemes to emerge, with crowdfunding attracting a lot of attention.CrowdFundRES recognises the vast potential of crowdfunding for ...
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Turning unexploited food waste into biomethane supplied through local filling stations network (Bin2Grid)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The overall objective of Bin2Grid concept is to promote segregated collection of food waste as energy source, conversion to biogas, and its upgrading to biomethane and utilization in associated network of filling stations.To that end, accent will be given to defining strategies for establishing efficient network of food and beverage waste collection methods and practices. Also, whole range of food ...
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Development of 2nd Generation Biorefineries – Production of Dicarboxylic Acids and Bio-based Polymers Derived Thereof (BIOREFINE-2G)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The existing 2nd generation biorefineries utilize less than 20% of the biomass feedstock for ethanol production, and major side-streams are produced such as pentose and lignin waste streams, that are respectively used for biogas and energy production. Converting the carbon from these waste streams into added-value products would increase the otherwise low profitability and improve the environmenta ...
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Delivery of sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a “resource-efficient” Bioeconomy in Europe (S2BIOM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

The main aim of this project is to support the sustainable delivery of non-food biomass feedstock at local, regional and pan European level through developing strategies, and roadmaps that will be informed by a “computerized and easy to use” toolset (and respective databases) with update harmonized datasets at local, regional, national and pan European level for EU27, western Balkans, Turkey and U ...
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OPtimising Hybrid Energy grids for smart citieS (OrPHEuS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The global demand for energy will challenge energy supply directly impacting the productivity for future growth and prosperity of cities. Stability and efficiency across multi domain energy grids are crucial. Coupling technologies like Combined Heat and Power (CHP) allow theses multi-utility grids to be considered and operated as Hybrid Energy Network increasing even more efficiency levels and red ...
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Support of the activities of all stakeholders from the PV sector to collaborate together to achieve the 2020 targets and beyond (PV TP SEC III)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The Platform’s Mission is to develop a strategy and corresponding implementation plan for education, research & technology development, innovation and market deployment of photovoltaic solar energy, to realise its vision.The PV TP-SEC III project aims at fostering the key activities of the European Photovoltaics Technology Platform taking into consideration the pressing needs in Europe for the ne ...
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Coordinating research and innovation of jet and other sustainable aviation fuel (CORE-JetFuel)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

For a number of ecologic and economic reasons, the aviation industry is currently in great need for alternative fuels. Highly ambitious goals for the reduction of the sector’s overall greenhouse gas emissions set from industry and politics imply sustainable alternative fuels as major contribution, and require research and innovation efforts in order to develop pathways for an economically feasible ...
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Implementing smart ICT concepts for energy efficiency in public buildings (Smart Build)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

A smart ICT concept will be implemented in existing public buildings in Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Greece in order to reach energy savings in annual and peak consumption up to 35% and to provide social-economic benefits to building users, to building managers, to public authorities and to distributor network operators. The ICT concept proposed with this action will be based on the off-the-shelf ...
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Strengthening networking on BiomAss researcH and biowaste conversion – biotechnologY for EurOpe India inteGration (SAHYOG)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The main objective of the SAHYOG project is to establish a partnering initiative to coordinate research activities carried out in Europe and India on biomass production and biowaste conversion through biotechnological approaches. The integrated project activities will be carried out by a partnership of stakeholders from EU and India involving public and private organizations that conceive and fund ...
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Uptake of Climate related Research Results through Knowledge Platforms with African Collaboration Partners (AfriCAN Climate)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The main aim of the AfriCAN Climate project is the development, operation and promotion of a web-based Knowledge Platform for efficient dissemination of climate change research results and good practices, to encourage users for uptake of success stories and research knowledge in new projects. Thereby, the project will contribute to mitigate climate change impacts on African regions and help commun ...
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Reverse Electrodialysis Alternative Power Production (REAPower)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The project is focusing on the salinity gradient power – reverse electrodialysis (SGP-RE) process. It has been shown in scientific papers that the performance of the process can be increased by an order of magnitude when brine and sea or brackish water are used for the creation of the salinity gradient rather than the current approach of seawater with fresh water. The overall potential is very hig ...
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Sweet Sorghum : an alternative energy crop (SWEETFUEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Increasing world market prices for fossil fuels, driven by limited reserves, growing demand and instability in producing regions, now render renewable fuels economical. Such fuels are also a pathway to reducing GHG emissions and mitigating climate change. Bio-ethanol from crop plants is a promising, partial solution to sustainably satisfy the energy demand for road transport. The success of bio-et ...
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Second generation BIOethanol process: demonstration scale for the step of Lignocellulosic hYdrolysis and FErmentation (BIOLYFE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The overall goal of BIOLYFE PROJECT is to developing and demonstrating the hydrolysis and fermentation steps at industrial scale of the lignocellulosic bioethanol process, considering the entire chain (i.e. including at the same scale the up-stream and downstream process, namely innovative pre-treatment steps and product separation/utilization). BIOLYFE specifically seeks technologies which have t ...
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Support of the activities of all stakeholders from the PV sector to collaborate together to achieve the 2020 targets (PV TP - SEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

"The proposed action, PV TP – SEC, will foster the cooperation among all the relevant stakeholders of the PV sector and therefore optimise the coordination of the research work in various technology areas in line with the R&D targets of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) developed by the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform (EU PV TP). The Implementation plan of the SRA will lead the Europea ...
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Novel high-performance enzymes and micro-organisms for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to bioethanol (NEMO)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The NEMO project provides novel efficient enzymes and microbes for 2nd generation bioethanol production. It generates through metabolic engineering and mutagenesis & screening approaches robust yeast strains that have a broad substrate range and can (co-)ferment C6 and C5 sugars to ethanol with high productivity (rate and yield), and that are significantly more stress tolerant, i.e. inhibitor, eth ...
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Mediterranean Innovation and Research Coordination Action (MIRA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

The present Coordination Action aims at developing the objectives of the INCO-Net MPC action as described in the Call for proposals, to further enhance regional S&T dialogue in the Mediterranean Region and the complementarities with activities carried out by other European Policy instruments, notably the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). These objectives are focused on creating a dialogue platfor ...
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Global Assessment of Biomass and Bioproduct Impacts on Socio-economics and Sustainability (Global-Bio-Pact)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

The objective of the Global-Bio-Pact project is the development and harmonisation of global sustainability certification systems for biomass production, conversion systems and trade in order to prevent negative socio-economic impacts. A functioning and sustainable certification scheme requires reliable data and profound research in order to evaluate impacts of biomass production. Currently, the su ...
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Pilot Demonstration of Eleven 7MW-Class WEC at Estinnes in Belgium (7MW-WEC-BY-11)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

This action focuses on demonstrating the development of a cost-effective large scale high capacity wind park using new state-of-the-art multi megawatt turbines coupled with innovative technology used to stabilize the grid. A key objective of the ‘7-MW-WEC-by-11’ project is to introduce a new power class of large-scale Wind Energy Converters, the 7MW WEC, onto the market which has the potential to ...
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Development and laboratory testing of improved action and Matrix hydro turbines designed by advanced analysis and optimization tools (HYDROACTION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The overall concept of the proposed project is to improve the hydraulic efficiency of small action type turbines, through the development and application of a numerical optimization methodology, that will be validated by the construction and laboratory testing of the prototype models of Pelton, Turgo and Matrix turbines representing both action and reaction types. The methodology to be developed ...
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MEmbrane DIstillation in Remote AreaS (MEDIRAS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The overall objective of the MEDIRAS project is the development and demonstration of cost effective and very reliable solar driven desalination systems for water scarcity affected regions with high insolation. The modular system set up is based on the highly innovative Membrane Distillation (MD) technology. MD is favorably applicable for small distributed desalination systems in the capacity range ...
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Biofuels Assessment on Technical Opportunities and Research Needs for Latin America (BioTop)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

The overall objective of the BioTop proposal is to identify technical opportunities and research needs for Latin America and to create and support specific RTD cooperation activities between Latin America and the European Union in order to maximize synergies in the biofuels sectors. Specific objectives are: - to provide a broad overview of the existing biofuel sectors in all Latin American countr ...
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