Participants
Centro de Investigaciones en Energía Solar CIESOL (España)
Contacts
J.A. Sánchez (jsanchez@ual.es)
Funds:
European Commission-DG RTD Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-INFRAIA-2018-2020.
(H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1)
Current Situation:
In progress
Summary
SFERA III is a Horizon 2020 project funded under the Research Infrastructure Programme. The consortium is coordinated by CIEMAT-PSA and is made up of a total of 15 partners from 9 EU member countries. The project runs from January 2019 to December 2022 and will receive a grant of 9,103 million euros from the EC over these 4 years. The overall objective of this project is to continue the work done over the last 8 years in the SFERA 1 and SFERA 2 projects and to strengthen the sustainability of European advanced concentrating solar energy research infrastructure activities.
These activities will comprise: (i) networking activities to further develop cooperation between research infrastructures, the scientific community, industries and other stakeholders; (ii) transnational access activities aimed at providing all European researchers, both from academia and industry, with access to unique scientific and technological solar research infrastructures; and (iii) joint research activities with the sole objective of improving the integrated services provided by the infrastructure.