SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund

Basic Information

SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund will focus on solar power technologies covering both photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) / solar thermal electricity according to the set-up of the Solar Europe Industry Initiative as part of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan.

Network	SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund
Website	https://www.solar-era.net/
Aim of the joint call	SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund will bring together 15 national organisations owning and / or managing major solar power research and innovation programmes throughout Europe, covering photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP). The network of national and regional funding agencies should increase transnational cooperation between R&D and innovation programmes and contribute to the implementation of the Strategic Energy Technologies (SET-) Plan through specific transnational activities (especially joint calls).
Type of joint call	Two Stages - Call with pre-proposals and full proposals submissions
Events	Launch date 05/12/2016 Deadline Pre-Proposal 20/02/2017 Submitted proposal: 48 Deadline Full-Proposal 14/06/2017 Submitted proposal: 27 Evaluation End Date 31/10/2017 Successful proposal: n/a Proposals funded: 16
Is call co-funded?	Yes
Call follow up funding	n/a
Call reasons	n/a
Research fields	Energy
Type of research	n/a
Target groups	Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) Public Research Organisations (PROs) Private and Semi-private Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) Large Corporations Other
Participating networks	n/a

Organisations Participating

Country	Organisation
Austria	Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Cyprus	Research Promotion Foundation (RPF/IPE)
France	Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME)
Germany	Project Management Juelich / Research Centre Juelich (PTJ/FZJ)
Netherlands	Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
Poland	National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)
Spain	Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
Spain	Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
Sweden	Swedish Energy Agency (SWEA)
Switzerland	Federal Office of Energy (SFOE/BFE)
Switzerland	NET NOWAK ENERGIE & TECHNOLOGIE AG (NET)
Türkiye	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
United Kingdom	Innovate UK (Innovate UK)

Funded Projects

Acronym	Title	Start	End	No. partners
1500-SIC	Develop a new photovoltaic Inverter with SiC full power oper...	01/03/2018	31/12/2019	3
BI-FACE	High-efficiency bifacial PV Modules and Systems for flat roo...	01/03/2018	28/02/2020	6
CEFRABID	Clean energy from road acoustic barriers infrastructure deve...	01/09/2018	31/12/2019	5
Cover Power	Smart Glass Coatings for Innovative BiPV Solutions	01/01/2018	31/12/2020	6
ENMESH	ENabling Micro-ConcEntrator PhotovoltaicS with Novel Interco...	01/01/2018	31/12/2019	3
Erigeneia	Enabling rising penetration and added value of photovoltaic ...	02/05/2018	01/05/2021	6
HEAVENLY	High-efficiency PERT and IBC cell development focussing on p...	01/02/2018	31/01/2021	3
Hyconsys	Hydrogen control in solar thermal parabolic trough heat tran...	01/01/2018	31/12/2020	4
MASTERPV	Innovative manufacturing solutions for cost-efficient semitr...	01/01/2018	31/12/2020	3
NELL	Novel encapsulant for long lifetime high voltage PID-resista...	01/03/2018	31/12/2019	2
NEXT-FOIL	Next generation conductive solar foil for flexible photovolt...	01/03/2018	28/02/2020	3
PANELPV	Sanwich panels with integratef PV with freedom of size and c...	01/11/2017	31/10/2019	6
PROGNOSIS	Intra-hour prediction of solar electricity generation from P...	02/04/2018	01/04/2021	3
Pearl	PERC meets self-aligned selective emitter technologies based...	01/01/2018	31/12/2019	4
Pvtool	Development of tools for effective control of large PV power...	01/09/2018	01/07/2021	3
RHINO	RHINO: Realization of High efficiency Industrial N-type sOla...	01/01/2018	31/12/2020	4