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EKLIPSE is developing a European Mechanism to answer requests from policy makers and other societal actors on biodiversity related issues. The calls aim to create working groups that address a targeted, policy-relevant question within a transparent and open framework. CALL FOR EXPERTS No.4/2017, EKLIPSE Extended deadline until 22nd October Topic: How can environmental regulators support...

“BESTF” is an ERA-NET-COFUND partnership between Member States and the European Commission that gives funding to bioenergy. It presents, in two-page spreads, the results of funded projects from the call for proposals BESTF1 and BESTF2. The projects have single-digit millions budgets and small consortia. You can download the catalogue here A second era-net funds bioenergy,...

16 November 2017 Brussels, Belgium Get informed on the upcoming calls related to your technology expertise and meet potential partners! Register now! The European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating & Cooling (RHC-ETIP), the Deep Geothermal ETIP and the DHC+ Technology Platform are happy to announce the organisation of a brokerage event focused on the upcoming Horizon 2020 Energy Work...

3 – 5 October 2018 Congress Graz, Austria Conference for innovative solutions and technological developments in the fields of renewable energies and resource efficiency In order to implement the agreement on global warming reached at the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December 2015, an almost complete phasing out of fossil energy supply is...

Source: Helioscsp One hundred tons of molten salt circulate through the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) test facility in Cologne. The molten salt is alternately heated and cooled from 250 to 560 degrees Celsius. Opened on 15 September 2017, the Test Facility for Thermal Energy Storage in Molten Salt (TESIS)...

5TOI Project Consortium have released a document that summarizes a pilot action in the Mediterranean and Africa. The pilot action is based on the NEXUS approach: ‘The nexus highlights the interdependencies between the water, energy and food sectors, and the need to pursue an integrated management framework across the three sectors.’ NEXUS approach focuses on...

Check the success of MPC countries in EU funds. Do you want to know who are the most powerful institutions? This map provide a well detailed infographic on the success of the MPC institutions to going EU research and innovation funds. Click the link to surf in the map where you can see per country,...

The SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) Conference will be held from September 26-29, 2017 in Santiago, Chile. The Competitive Solar Power Towers project will be presented at event by the partners CENER and EDF. CENER will deliver the oral presentations: Heliostat Structural Optimization: a Study of Wind Load Effects with CFD-FEM Methods Experimental...

The EUROSUNMED project, co-funded by the EU under FP7, and coordinated by EUREC’s member CNRS-ICUBE, held its final project meeting on 28th August 2017 at the premises of DG Research in Brussels. The final meeting took stock of the progresses made by the consortium during the past five years. The consortium has successfully achieved its...

by Wim van Helden, Group Leader, Thermal Energy Storage Solar thermal energy has the potential to cover 100 % of the heat demand of households through completely renewable energy. To achieve this, the surplus of solar heat from summer needs to be stored by a seasonal thermal energy storage to cover the demand in winter....

Greg Arrowsmith, Policy Advisor of EUREC, contributed to an article from Adjacent Open Access about how effective projects drive the EU to keep powering renewable energy research and innovation. The piece was entitled ‘Driving renewable energy research and innovation in FP9’ Read the full article here

ETIP SNET IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ONLINE CONSULTATION 1 DAY LEFT TO LET US KNOW YOUR OPINION ON NEXT RD&I PRIORITIES FOR EUROPE’S ENERGY TRANSITION If you have not done so yet, you have until 10 August to provide your feedback on the draft ETIP SNET Implementation Plan 2017- 2020 (IP 17-20), don’t lose this opportunity! The ETIP...

Press release: Innovation in the Renewable Heating and Cooling sector fills up entire conference room at the EUSEW Brus­sels, 30th June 2017 – The ses­sion “In­no­va­tion in the Re­new­able Heat­ing and Cool­ing sec­tor” or­gan­ised by the Eu­ro­pean Tech­nol­ogy and In­no­va­tion Plat­form on Re­new­able Heat­ing and Cool­ing (RHC-ETIP) as part of the of­fi­cial pro­gramme of the...

‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ package should promote local energy communities and apportion network charges fairly On 23 May, EUREC held a workshop on “Digitalisation of the energy system”. Members presented results from their research in this area, then discussed more broadly the changes needed to operation of Europe’s energy networks, particularly electricity networks. A...

5TOI_4EWAS survey on University – Business cooperation in South Mediterranean Neighbourhood Top Countries performance With the aim of enriching our knowledge, 5TOI_4EWAS has conducted a rigorous investigation spanning from December 2016 till May 2017. 5TOI_4EWAS has spent the last six months to investigate on barriers and motivators, supporting mechanism and good practises which are carrying out...

In the framework of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package proposed by the European Commission in November, EUREC and other associations from the renewable energy field have signed a letter addressed to the members of the European Parliament. The letter aims to encourage the European Commission to increase the investment on renewable energy. You...

PRESS RELEASE BRUSSELS, 21st June 2017 – The Annual Event “Innovation in the Renewable Heating and Cooling sector” of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC-ETIP) was successfully held yesterday in Brussels, Belgium.   Over 50 experts attended the event at CENELEC with the aim to discuss the conditions to...

A MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE FELLOWSHIP WITHIN THE MSCA-ITN PROJECT SOLAR-TRAIN Location: Bolzano, Italy Employment contract for 3 years Participation in a Training Network Deadline: 14 July 2017 Eurac Research is offering A Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship within the MSCA-ITN project SOLAR-TRAIN on the topic: Uncertainty in PV Energy Performance: a Framework to Link Technical Failures,...

PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 22 June 2017 Open Letter from the European PV Community: “Urgent Call for Action to Ensure a Sustainable Future for European PV Manufacturing” Organized by the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV), EUREC – The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers and Solar United – The Global Solar...

eseia is getting ready for new exciting edition of its International Summer School. The 2017 edition will focus on “Balancing of bio-resources and energy production“ and will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, between 26 June-1 July 2017. Students and young professionals will have the chance to explore how to convert...

Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC) is organizer of the trade fair WindEnergy Hamburg, which is to be held at the Hamburg Fair site from 25 to 28 September 2018. This letter of intent describes the cooperation between HMC and the partner as supporting association of WindEnergy Hamburg 2018 – hereinafter called WindEnergy. Benefits offered...

The 52 College of Members (CoMs 52) took place in Brussels, at the Museum of Natural Sciences, on the 23rd and 24th May 2017. The second day was dedicated to the association’s internal affairs and on the first day, EUREC organised an expert workshop on ‘Digitalisation of the energy system’.  Werner Friedl (AIT) during his presentation on...

IK4 TEKNIKER, EUREC Partner in the Competitive Solar Power Towers, CAPTure project, will present at the 12th International Modelica Conference. The event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 15-17, 2017. It is organized by The Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI) and Politecnico di Milano, in cooperation with the Modelica Association....

21 Jun 2017 from 4 pm to 5.30 pm Location: Brussels – Belgium The RHC-ETIP will or­gan­ise a ses­sion dur­ing the of­fi­cial pro­gramme of the Eu­ro­pean Sus­tain­able En­ergy Week (EUSEW). The programme of the EUSEW Policy Conference is available online here The RHC-ETIP session aims to pre­sent in­no­v­a­tive pro­jects in the re­new­able heat­ing and cool­ing...

For the 6th year, EUREC will deliver 3 awards to the best students’ undergraduate projects on Renewable Energy. Through these awards, EUREC would like to stimulate interest in research in Renewable Energy and encourage young students to pursue a career in the field. The award is open to all students in the last year of...

The 52 College of Members (CoMs 52) will take place in Brussels, at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences,  on the 23rd and 24th May 2017. EUREC will organise an expert workshop on ‘Digitalisation of the energy system’. The second day will be dedicated to the association’s internal affairs.  As part of the EUREC...

From 2015, the experts of the Steering Committee Panel of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC-ETIP) have been contributing to monitor the implementation of the Roadmaps. The work of the Cross-Cutting Panel currently focuses on these three areas: District Heating and Cooling Thermal Energy Storage Hybrid Systems Since one...

Renewables Global Futures Report: Great debates towards 100% renewable energy 114 renewable energy experts from around the world share their views on achieving 100% renewable energy by 2050 Read the report As sustainable energy experts from around the world gathered at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in New York this week, the REN21 multi-stakeholder...

ManagEnergy is a technical support initiative of the Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) programme of the European Commission which aims to assist actors from the public sector and their advisers working on energy efficiency and renewable energy at the local and regional level. The initiative was launched in 2002 and over the past 3 years...

   #RogerLeronAward Press Release: 13 March 2017 FEDARENE is pleased to announce the launch of the 3rd edition of the Roger Léron Award. The purpose of this Award is to nominate an individual for their acknowledge persistency, who is bringing a successful contribution to sustainable energy at the regional and / or local level in...