Project description
Lighting the way for future solar fuels
Photovoltaic power is increasingly competing with grid power in the EU and around the world. Soon, sunshine could be used to decarbonise air travel. The potential in solar fuel is shining. The EU-funded SUNER-C project will put these uses under a bright spotlight. Bringing together 31 organisations from a variety of sectors and across the EU, the project will speed up the development of solar fuels and chemicals. By replacing fossil-derived fuels and chemicals with renewables and carbon recycling, SUNER-C aims to contribute to the creation of a circular economy.
Objective
SUNER-C CSA overarching objective is to aggregate fragmented knowledge and develop the framework conditions to overcome scientific, technological, organizational and socioeconomic challenges to accelerate innovation and enable the transition of technologies for solar fuels and chemicals from laboratory and demonstrator level to large-scale industrial and broad societal application. Through a holistic approach, SUNER-C will contribute to circular economy by replacing fossil-derived fuels and chemicals by renewables and carbon recycling as key element towards the EU net-zero emissions target by 2050. SUNER-C will build upon the work of SUNERGY, a pan-European initiative on fossil-free fuels and chemicals from renewable power and solar energy, with to date over 300 supporting organisations across and beyond Europe. SUNER-C specific outcomes during the CSA will be to: develop an inclusive pan-European innovation community and eco-system on solar fuels and chemicals with global outreach, linked to political and societal needs, gathering stakeholders from different fields, sectors and disciplines around a shared vision, and coordinating with existing initiatives to ensure complementarity; develop a roadmap and a blueprint to implement it, as main drivers to identify and tackle long-term research and innovation challenges to de-fossilize society with solar fuels and chemicals; prepare the foundations for a large-scale research and innovation initiative (LSRI), ready to be launched at the end of the CSA, through an instrument to be agreed upon with the European Commission and the Member States. The LSRI will continue developing the eco-system and supporting the implementation of the roadmap, speeding up industrial and societal uptake of technologies for solar fuels and chemicals in the EU and contributing to wider, longer-term impacts, including those on “Increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry” outlined in the Horizon Europe Work Programme.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
3584 CS Utrecht
Netherlands
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Participants (29)
75015 PARIS 15
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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9000 Gent
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2311 EZ Leiden
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00-927 WARSZAWA
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43007 Tarragona
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81739 Munchen
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60486 Frankfurt
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80686 Munchen
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5656 AE Eindhoven
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20014 Turku
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182 23 Praha
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751 05 Uppsala
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51373 Leverkusen
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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28935 Mostoles Madrid
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98166 Messina
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3001 Leuven
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1014 BV Amsterdam
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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00156 Roma
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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555 35 THESSALONIKI
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
050663 Bucuresti
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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38080 L'Isle-D'Abeau
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1630 Linkebeek
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
92400 Courbevoie
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69003 Lyon
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
7181 Seneffe
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