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  • Top story of the week: EU Commission pre-publishes Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programmes with strong competitiveness and simplification focus

    News

    Top story of the week: EU Commission pre-publishes Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programmes with strong ...

    06 May 2025

    On 29 April, the European Commission pre-published the 2025 and the amended 2023-2025 Horizon Europe Work Programmes (WPs), ahead of their formal adoption planned for early May, in order to provide ...

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  • JPs ES, e3s, CSP and DfE joint workshop on the smart operation of energy storage technologies in future energy markets

    Events

    JPs ES, e3s, CSP and DfE joint workshop on the smart operation of energy storage technologies in ...

    13-14 May 2025
    Madrid, Spain

    EERA's Joint Programmes (JPs) on Energy Storage (ES), Clean Energy tranSition for Sustainable Society (e3s), Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Digitalisation for Energy (DfE) are organising a ...

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  • CONNECT-NM | Coordination of the European Research Community on Nuclear Materials for Energy Innovation

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    CONNECT-NM | Coordination of the European Research Community on Nuclear Materials for Energy ...

    13 December 2024

    CONNECT-NM is the co-funded European partnership dedicated to advancing research, development, and innovation in the field of nuclear materials. More specifically, CONNECT-NM pursues a paradigm ...

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EERA’s policy recommendations for a sustainable and competitive Europe with low-carbon energy R&I at the core

A sustainable and competitive Europe depends on innovative low-carbon energy solutions to succeed on the global stage. By prioritising research and innovation, Europe can spearhead the way towards climate neutrality and ensure long-term economic resilience while re-establishing its role as a leader in promoting a fair, sustainable and prosperous society.

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EERA exists thanks to its member organisations

The European Energy Research Alliance is the largest energy research community in Europe. It is a membership-based, non-profit association and brings together more than 250 universities and public research centres from over 30 countries. EERA's joint research programmes cover the whole range of low-carbon technologies as well as systemic and cross-cutting topics.


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Our Joint Programmes

To organise work within the association and realise its strategy, EERA operates 18 joint research programmes.

  •   AMPEA AMPEA

    AMPEA stand for "Advanced Materials and Processes for Energy Applications". Its members work on basic materials science, physical chemistry of processes, heat and mass transfer phenomena, and develop powerful tools to characterise materials and energy devices.

  •   Bioenergy Bioenergy

    The current generation of biomass conversion technologies is expensive and uses feedstock that is associated with sustainability issues. JP Bioenergy works on sustainable value chains, encompassing feedstock production, conversion technologies, stationary Bioenergy and integrated assessment.

  •   Carbon Capture and Storage Carbon Capture and Storage

    Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is a key element in decarbonising the power and energy-intensive industry sector and thus reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

  •   clean Energy tranSition for Sustainable Society (e3s) clean Energy tranSition for Sustainable Society (e3s)

    The Joint Programme clean Energy tranSition for Sustainable Society (e3s) sets out to understand the complex interactions in socio-technical-economic systems, which include, among other things, consumer behavior and engagement, market dynamics, collective action, innovation and technological change, and policy frameworks.

  •   Concentrated Solar Power Concentrated Solar Power

    The Joint Programme contributes to achieving the following targets: support the STE industry; cluster European R&D activities on CSP/STE; define a priority of targets in each CSP/STE technology; increase the integration of CSP into the energy system; address all previous challenges in the context of aligned European and Member States Research and Innovation objectives.

  •   Digitalisation for Energy Digitalisation for Energy

    The transversal Joint Programme (tJP) Digitalisation for Energy (DfE) aims to define key priorities for DfE that will derive in research activities as well as act as contact point with major European initiatives on supercomputing, big data, artificial intelligence, open science, etc.. The tJP DfE will also tackle the European Digital Strategy, which is strongly pushing the mentioned IT services. 

  •   Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes
  •   Energy Storage Energy Storage

    The Joint Programme on Energy Storage strongly fosters the efficient development of new energy storage technologies. It supports the SET-Plan objectives and priorities by pooling and integrating activities and resources including international partners on all levels of the value chain.

  •   Energy Systems Integration Energy Systems Integration

    This Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration seeks to bring together research strengths across Europe to optimize our energy system, in particular by benefiting from the synergies between heating, cooling, electricity, renewable energy and fuel pathways at all scales. The energy elements of the water and transport system are also included as is the enabling data and control network that enables the optimisation.

  •   Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Hydrogen

    The Joint Programme on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen aims to accelerate and harmonise long-term research on fuel cells, electrolysers and hydrogen handling in Europe.

  •   Geothermal Geothermal

    EERA Geothermal has the potential to provide an outstanding contribution to the growth of geothermal energy utilisation in Europe and worldwide, bringing together all major European research organisations in a strategically oriented endeavour. The participants of EERA Geothermal are active in geothermal energy research ranging from low to high TRL and have active international collaboration across sectors.

  •   Hydropower Hydropower

    JP Hydropower spans the entire energy chain from water catchment to system integration, and it includes cross-cutting elements such as markets and market design as well as environmental impacts, effects of climate change and policy and societal issues.

  •   Nuclear Materials Nuclear Materials

    The Joint Programme Nuclear Materials provides research and development for the structural and fuel materials needed for the development and implementation of advanced nuclear reactors in Europe.

  •   Ocean Energy Ocean Energy

    The Joint Programme Ocean Energy is based around six key research themes: resource; technology; deployment and operations; economics and costs; environmental and socio-economic impacts; education and training. These themes have been developed based on existing research roadmaps which identify the critical areas of research required for the successful growth of the industry.

  •   Photovoltaic Solar Energy Photovoltaic Solar Energy

    The objective of this Joint Programme is to accelerate the development of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to an energy technology that can be implemented at a very large scale through Joint Programming activities by key research institutes in Europe. It focuses primarily on cost reduction of PV systems, through enhancement of performance, development of low-cost, high-throughput manufacturing processes, and improvement of lifetime and reliability of PV systems and components.

  •   Smart Cities Smart Cities

    The main objective of the Joint Programme Smart Cities is to develop strong research and innovation for smart planning, design and operation of urban energy systems, firmly integrated with cities’ social, cultural, innovation, economic, regulatory and legal perspectives, to achieve the SET-Plan highly ambitious target of developing 100 Smart Positive Energy Districts in Europe by 2025 (Action 3.2).

  •   Smart Grids Smart Grids

    The Joint Programme Smart Grids, coordinated by RSE and ENEA from Italy by means of an extended cross-disciplinary cooperation involving many Research and Development (R&D) participants with different and complementary expertise and facilities, aims at addressing in a medium to long-term research perspective one of the most critical areas directly relating to the effective acceleration of smart grid development and deployment.

  •   Wind Energy Wind Energy

    The Joint Programme on Wind Energy provides strategic leadership for medium to long-term research and supports the European wind energy industry and societal stakeholders. It brings together all public research organisations in Europe with substantial research and innovation efforts in wind energy.

 

An analysis of the implementation of artificial intelligence in the energy sector

EERA’s newly published position paper provides a timely and strategic perspective on how AI could best be used to accelerate the energy transition. The paper emphasises the importance of adopting a human-centric approach to AI, tailoring energy solutions to individual needs, promoting efficient consumption, and enhancing the overall trust and acceptance of new technologies.

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