Objective For Europe to meet its future energy needs and to attain its environmental targets, whilst maintaining security of supply, a carbon management strategy needs to be adopted that embraces the use of fossil fuels alongside energy from other sources and a strong improvement in energy efficiency. For fossil fuels, especially gas and solids, this must entail the mitigation of CO2 through increased efficiency and the development of technologies that will lead to very low or zero emissions, including the use of CO2 capture and storage. The improvement of the performance of the key components, implementing new power plant concepts and sequestering carbon dioxide is substantial in this respect. FENCO is the preparatory step to form a single major European initiative for energy technologies towards a carbon free power production based on fossil fuels. It is foreseen to establish a European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) that defines a technology path towards low and near zero emission power plants on an extended European level and which links the R&D and demonstration needs of EU member states, the EU, industry and academia. It is envisaged that this will be based on a step-by-step approach combined with significant advances to ensure that future technologies will lead to an improved competitiveness through affordable energy prices whilst at the same time making a significant contribution towards attaining emission reduction targets. Within this SSA it is the aim of the mentioned Member States to prepare the structure and management processes of the following ERA-NET. This will be achieved by analysing the various research programs and academic initiatives in Europe, considering their position in a global sense, identifying synergies of approach and content and thus establishing the basis for a coherent and efficient fossil energy technology initiative across Europe. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciences Keywords Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Clean Energy Demonstration and Deployment Fossil Fuels Improved Efficiency Programme(s) FP6-COORDINATION - Support for the coordination of activities: specific programme strengthening the foundations of the European Research Area under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 (FP6) Topic(s) COOR-1.1 - Networking of national or regional programmes or parts of programmes; actors: public authorities, research agencies, open call for proposals (ERA-NETs) Call for proposal ERA-NET/1/CA-SSA See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH Address Leo-brandt-strasse Juelich Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR WIRTSCHAFT UND ARBEIT Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Scharnhorststr. 34-37 Berlin See on map SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY - DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Victoria street 1 London See on map AEA TECHNOLOGY PLC United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 156 harwell, didcot Oxfordshire See on map
