The PUMP-HEAT project has followed a continuous development until the completion of all tasks, facing expected issues on innovative device testing as well as unexpected issues such as termination of two beneficiaries, impact of Covid-19 pandemic, very low river water levels at demosite during last summertime. The Steering Committee, composed of all WP leaders under supervision of Coordinator, maintained constant focus on all the on-going activities, rescheduling the following tasks as needed to mitigate risks and impact on project goals, interfacing with Project Officer as requested, in particular regarding the project extension(s).
At the end, all tasks have been completed, all 12 milestones have been achieved, all 51 deliverables have been submitted, most of them as scheduled.
The project underwent a series of amendments, mainly dictated by two partner withdrawal and to the pandemic situation.
Globally speaking the target project results have been achieved satisfactorily, both towards experimental realization at validation sites (UNIGE and KTH) and at demosite (IREN), allowing for effective project dissemination activities and attraction of stakeholder interest, beyond expectations.
The work has been continuously managed by the UNIGE coordinator with financial coordination support from RINA-C, in close cooperation with all WP leaders also thanks to web-meetings/Telcos.
Regarding replication and dissemination activities (WP6), they have been focused on validation and demo sites, promoting them and targeting upscale and replication.
Technical, economic and non-technical (regulatory, health and safety, intellectual property) aspects have been assessed to draft, via WP6 deliverables, a full replication roadmap of PUMP-HEAT cycles and innovations.
Further to this, PUMP-HEAT results have been always accompanied and promoted by a robust dissemination and communication campaign lead by AUTH that, even in pandemic period, brought to excellent results and promotion of project foreground, among them the organization of SUPEHR’19 conference in cooperation with other similar H2020 projects (Savona UNIGE campus, Italy, in 4-6 September 2019), continuous interaction with ETN (European Turbine Network) and with sisters project (also participating to CINEA/H2020 project workshops) that brought to the participation to different promotional webinars in 2020-2021.
