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European Energy
Research Alliance

EERA catalyses European energy research
for a climate-neutral society by 2050
  • IPCC synthesis report: phase out coal by 2030, and all fossil fuels by 2040

    News

    IPCC synthesis report: phase out coal by 2030, and all fossil fuels by 2040

    27 March 2023

    On 20 March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the AR6 Synthesis Report. It integrates findings from six reports during IPCC’s eight-year AR6 cycle. The report will be ...

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  • A future-proof EU electricity market:  the role of R&I in taking up the challenge

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    A future-proof EU electricity market: the role of R&I in taking up the challenge

    26 April 2023
    Online

    The 2022 energy crisis has severely tested the EU electricity market. Record-high gas prices have directly impacted those of electricity, contributing to galloping inflation and rising energy ...

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  • Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence

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    SSH CENTRE

    19 September 2022

    The SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellencewill engage directly with stakeholders across research, policy, and business (including citizens) ...

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Launching the EERA Manifesto on REPowerEU

An analysis highlighting the critical gaps that might hinder the successful implementation of the REPowerEU plan and its corresponding recommendations from an R&I perspective

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EERA exists thanks to its 250 member organizations

The European Energy Research Alliance is the largest energy research community in Europe. It is a membership-based, non-profit association and brings together 250 universities and public research centres in 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.

  •   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. 

  •   e3s e3s

    The Joint Programme Clean Energy Transition for 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.

  •   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.

 

Discover our flagship project: SUPEERA

The SUPEERA project supports the implementation of the SET-Plan and the Clean Energy Transition. It monitors and optimises the actions under the SET-Plan Implementation Plans and encourages a stronger engagement of EU-13 countries. SUPEERA also helps accelerate the uptake of new technologies by industry and assesses the impact of EU policies.

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