This Integrated Research Program (IRP) has engaged all major European research institutes and other industrial actors in an integrated research structure to successfully achieve the following general objectives: a) to convert the consortium into a reference actor to concentrate the solar energy research in Europe; b) improve cooperation between EU research institutions participating in the IRP to create added value at European level; c) synchronize the different national research programs in order to avoid duplication and thus obtain better and faster results; d) accelerate the transfer of knowledge to industry in order to maintain and strengthen existing European industrial leadership; e) expand joint activities between research centers, offering researchers and industry a full portfolio of research capabilities, bringing added value in industry-led innovation and technology; f) establish the European reference association to promote and coordinate international cooperation to focus research on solar energy.
Acronym: STAGE-STE
Finanzing body: UE
Starting year: February 2014
End year: January 2018
Call: FP7 – Energy, Grant Agreement 609837
Diathema Budget : 62.4 k€
Diathema role: Coordinator
Partners involved: Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-CIEMAT (capofila), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt EV, Paul Scherrer Institut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung EV, Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo economico sostenibile, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives, The Cyprus Institute, Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia i.p., Fundación Centro Tecnológico Avanzado de Energías Renovables de Andalucía, Fundación CENER, Fundación TECNALIA, Universidade de Évora, Fundación IMDEA Energia, Cranfield University, Fundación Tekniker, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna srl, INESC-ID Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, ST-ID - Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Portugal, SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A., HSE Hitit Solar Enerji AS, Acciona Generacion Renovable S.A., SCHOTT Solar CSP GmbH, Archimede Solar Energy srl, European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, Abengoa Solar New Technologies S.A, King Saud University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Stellenbosch university, Centre for Solar Energy Research and Studies, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, FUSP - Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo, Institute of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Université Cadi Ayyad, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, CNIM Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée, Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S.A., SUNCNIM, Universidad de Sevilla
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609837