Objective
The NEEDS proposal addresses Priority 6.1: Sustainable Energy Systems and, more specifically, Sub-priority 6.1.3.2.5: Socio-economic tools and concepts for energy strategy. Its ultimate objective is to evaluate the full costs and benefits (i.e. direct + external) of energy policies and of future energy systems, both for individual countries and for the enlarged EU as a whole.
Major advancements will be achieved in the three main areas of:
-Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of energy technologies
-monetary valuation of externalities from energy production, transport, conversion and use
-integration of LCA and externalities information into policy formulation and scenario building.
The NEEDS IP is built as a series of "research streams ":
1a) LCA of new energy technologies
1b) New and improved methods to estimate the external costs of energy conversion
1c) Externalities associated to the extraction and transport of energy
1d) Extension of the geographical coverage of the current knowledge of energy externalities
2a) Modelling internalisation strategies, including scenario building
2b) Energy Technology Roadmap and Stakeholder Perspectives
3a) Transferability and generalisation
3b) Dissemination/communication
A dedicated Integration Stream will deal with all interlink ages between streams.
The consortium includes 80 partners (of which over 20% are SMEs), representing 30 Countries (13 EU Member States, 10 NAS, 3 Mediterranean Countries, and 4 Countries from other parts of the World), and a balanced mix of Universities, Research Institutions, Industry, NGOs.
Most leading institutions in the area of energy externalities research are represented.
The Consortium is coordinated by ISIS, Institute for System Integration Studies (Rome)
Over the 4-year duration of the IP, the resources mobilised amount to ca. 1118 person. months, corresponding to a total value of ca. 11.699 MEuro.
Fields of science
- social sciencessocial and economic geographytransport
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gas
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
- social sciencesother social sciencessocial sciences interdisciplinarysustainable development
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbons
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpower engineeringelectric power generation
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydroelectricity
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
FP6-2002-ENERGY-1
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Funding Scheme
IP - Integrated ProjectCoordinator
Roma
Italy
Participants (67)
Budapest
Milano
Paris
Thessaloniki
Marrakech
Brest
Zurich
Milano
Göteborg
Madrid
Pikermi/athens
Praha 1
Koeln
Petten
Oslo
Zurich
Paris
Bucharest
Lausanne
Uster
Milano
Muenchen
Bruxelles
Paris
Gödöllö
Heidelberg
Hamburg
Laxenburg
Ljubljana
Roma
Roma
Reykjavik
Edinburgh
Bruxelles
Lyon
Hamburg
Leuven
La Marsa
Kaunas
Paris
Lund
Krakow
Oslo
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Neuchâtel
Nasr City/cairo
Zografos-athens
Sophia Antipolis
Torino
Bratislava
Villigen Psi
Roskilde
Tallinn
Antwerpen
Fredericia
Tallinn
Cerdanyola Del Valles
Bath
Krakow
Sofia
Paris
Stuttgart
Mol
1000 Espoo
Warszawa
Frederiksberg C
Lysaker