Objective
Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and economically viable way, by means of thermal energy storage and/or hybridization, e.g. with biomass. However, significant research efforts are needed to achieve this goal. This Integrated Research Programme (IRP) engages all major European research institutes, with relevant and recognized activities on STE and related technologies, in an integrated research structure to successfully accomplish the following general objectives: a) Convert the consortium into a reference institution for concentrating solar energy research in Europe, creating a new entity with effective governance structure; b) Enhance the cooperation between EU research institutions participating in the IRP to create EU added value; c) Synchronize the different national research programs to avoid duplication and to achieve better and faster results; d) Accelerate the transfer of knowledge to industry in order to maintain and strengthen the existing European industrial leadership in STE; e) Expand joint activities among research centres by offering researchers and industry a comprehensive portfolio of research capabilities, bringing added value to innovation and industry-driven technology; f) Establish the European reference association for promoting and coordinating international cooperation in concentrating solar energy research. To that end, this IRP promotes Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) and, in parallel, performs Coordinated Projects (CP) covering the full spectrum of current concentrating solar energy research topics, selected to provide the highest EU added value and filling the gaps among national programs.
Fields of science
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets
- engineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalination
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energysolar thermal
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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Call for proposal
FP7-ENERGY-2013-IRP
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Coordinator
28040 MADRID
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Participants (42)
51147 Koln
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5232 Villigen Psi
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75794 Paris
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80686 Munchen
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00196 Roma
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8092 Zuerich
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75015 PARIS 15
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2121 Nicosia
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4466-901 S.Mamede De Infesta
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04200 TABERNAS ALMERIA
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00185 Roma
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31621 Sarriguren
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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7000 803 Evora
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28935 Mostoles Madrid
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MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
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20600 Eibar Guipuzcoa
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90133 Palermo
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09050 Pula Cagliari
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1000 029 Lisboa
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1000-043 Lisboa
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48930 Getxo
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34357 Istanbul
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31192 Valle de Egues
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55122 MAINZ
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06056 MASSA MARTANA
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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41014 SEVILLA
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11451 Riyadh
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04510 CIUDAD DE MEXICO
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7600 Stellenbosch
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TAJURA
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2601 Acton Act
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05507 000 Sao Paulo
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100190 BEIJING
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10 Santiago
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40 000 Marrakech
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38122 Trento
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75008 PARIS
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28016 Madrid
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83507 La Seyne sur Mer
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41004 Sevilla
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