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.
Thematic Area:Energy
Financing body:EU - FP7
Starting year:2013
End year:2017
Call:FP7 – IRP - ENERGY
Acronym:STAGE-STE
Title:Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy
Budget ISM (k€):63
Role ISM:Unit Coordinator
Referent ISM:Daniele M. Trucchi
Other ISM staff involved:Alessandro Bellucci, Orlando Stefano, Marco Girolami
Website:https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609837
Laboratorio: Diathema, FemtoLAB & LIBS