CoMs 71, Dec 2024, Kortrijk

On 10 and 11 Dec, the EUREC College of Members was held in Kortrijk, hosted by EUREC members HOWEST University of Applied Sciences.

AGENDA

Day 1: Internal Affairs and tour of HOWEST labs

Internal Affairs session video recording

 Introduction of new members

Look back on H2 2024 services to EUREC members & discussion on priorities 2025 (GROW)

  • Horizon Europe brokerages (Greg Arrowsmith, Secretary General) – e.g. lessons learned on 2024 experience; Outline timeline for 2025 action, based on WP 2025.
  • Lobby work (Greg Arrowsmith, Secretary General) campaign for access to operational data; Data for Energy working group of Smart Energy Expert Group; CEP-PV; NZIA incl ESIA’s recommendation; Horizon Europe amendments. – Greg’s brokerage and lobby presentations
  • EUREC Masters and related work (Nathalie Richet, Senior Master Programme Manager, incl RESKills4Net Zero, HyAcademy.eu, GatE, SET Plan Task Force on skills) – presentation

ENTEC 2 (Andrej Mišech, Project Manager)

Major new project led by PWC starting in 2025, involving EUREC office & members AIT, AEE INTEC, Eurac Research, RISE, DLR, ZSW-BW, imec, WIP – presentation

Look back on EUREC’s project work in the second half of 2024 (non-Masters related) (Anna Spoden, Communications & Policy Officer)

Presentation

  • ETIPs joint activities: highlights from webinars on P2X and social acceptability; webinars in 2025
  • RES4LIVE policy briefs: highlights
  • REALIZE Cleantech4Europe conference: our work supporting Innovation Fund
    SET4H2: opportunities to get involved
  • Launch of IWG5 EURAC online tool to evaluate and compare energy efficient renovation options for buildings

Important work coming up in our ‘ETIPs’ (Andrej Mišech, Project Manager) – presentation
Dissemination and Communication work (Céline Suchet, Communications Manager) – presentation

Cyprus College of Members 20-21 May 2025, Venizelos Efthymiou – FOSS – notes

Day 2: Workshop on AI and Discussion on perspectives for DC Grids

Workshop on AI in renewable energy systems

Video recording

  1. HOWEST
  2. Ahmet Aksoz, MOBILERS/Sivas Cumhuriyet University
  3. Andrea Michiorri, Mines Paris – PSL
  4. Canan Korkmaz, Inavitas (ONLINE)
  5. Carsten Hoyer-Klick, DLR
  6. Julian Ruddick, EVERGi/Free University of Brussels
  7. Paola Mazzucchelli, CIRCE
  • What are the current and future capabilities of Energy Management Systems, with or without AI? presentations
  • What barriers exist to the wider adoption of AI in energy? presentations

Discussion on perspectives for DC Grids

Video recording

  1. Leiedal- RE/SOURCED project- presentation
  2. University of Ghent – RE/SOURCED project: Ing. Ward Ysebie and Ing. Brecht Caers – presentation

What are the lessons learned from Transfo’s DC Grid and what are the perspectives for a wide use of DC grids alongside (or instead of) traditional AC grids?

  1. University of Ghent: Prof. Jan Desmet – presentation
  2. EUREC Board member: Venizelos Efthymiou, FOSS – presentation
  3. EUREC Vice-President: Tara Esterl, AIT – presentation