1 ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus Co-Funded Joint Call 2015
In 2015, ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus prepared and launched its First Joint Call for transna-tional RDD projects on Smart Grids in partnership with funding programs from 20 Euro-pean countries and regions. Projects are co-funded by the European Commission under H2020. Focus of the First Joint Call for transnational RDD projects was given to validation, scale-up and replication, and integration of Stakeholder/Adoption, Marketplace and Technology. The aim was to push solutions from Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs, see definitions in Annex C of the call text document at the public project website) 5-6 to TRLs 6-7.
As a result of the ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus First Joint Call,
• 50 full project proposals from 20 regions/countries with a total project budget of EUR 104 Mio. were submitted to the call in June 2015.
• 21 approved projects from 19 regions/countries with a total funding of EUR 31 Mio. (Total project budget of EUR 47. Mio.) were selected in December 2015.
• Funded projects will involve a total of 128 partners spread throughout Europe, 48,5 % of which are industry partners. The projects will start in 2016.
Further details
Further details can be read in the downloadable call text document, available at the public project website
http://www.eranet-smartgridsplus.eu/research-calls/1st-joint-call-2015(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie).
2 ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus Knowledge Community
In 2015, ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus worked on the preparation and implementation of a package of supportive measures to ERA-Net SG+ funded projects and the ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus Initiative, including various instruments:
• ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus Knowledge Community
As part of the ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus Knowledge Community, projects will have access to a large national and international knowledge base, including a set of “living documents” - a compilation of the current state of knowledge in the field of smart grids, continuously updated by experts in the field. At the same time as they develop their knowledge and contacts in the Knowledge Community, projects will support their learning and experience transfer activities within the network.
• expera | The Knowledge Sharing Platform of ERA-Net SG+
ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus projects will have access to expera - the Knowledge Sharing Platform. expera (“expera” = Experts of the ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus Knowledge Com-munity) links projects with all diverse services, including the knowledge base with the Living Documents, events calendar as well as the list of experts. expera was launched on April 18, 2016 and is available at
http://www.smartgridsplus.eu(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie). Initial versions of almost all Living Documents are already available on that platform.
• Working Groups and their topics
In the reporting period, the initiative initiated various Thematic Working Groups (TWG) which will meet at least once a year to discuss current questions and developments in the field of Smart Grids. TWGs allow for exchanging experience and learning from each other. Results usually feed into the knowledge base (e. g. the Living Documents) and are intended to make their way to policy, governance or standardisation bodies. A list of working group meetings that have been held can be found at the events page of our pub-lic website:
http://www.eranet-smartgridsplus.eu/news-events/events(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)
