RELATED INITIATIVES
Related initiatives
“MultiFutures,” funded by Horizon Europe, is a transformative project aimed at broadening policy options to achieve sustainable societal transitions. By integrating alternative economic paradigms into established transition scenarios, such as the EC’s long-term strategic visions, this project enhances the framework within which policy actions are assessed and developed. Utilizing state-of-the-art AI language tools, extensive stakeholder engagement, and cutting-edge modeling, “MultiFutures” seeks to redefine the policy landscape.
H2STEEL is a European project which has the goal of creating a ground-breaking competitive solution for sustainable green hydrogen and bio coal production from circular biowaste streams. The project wants to contribute to the EU Green Hydrogen economy and to the decarbonization of the European steel sector, as its green transition is a priority. The H2STEEL project’s methodology aims at contributing to a greener steel industry by creating a system that reuses biowaste to open a new route for cost-competitive green H2 in Europe.
The DECIPHER consortium aims to revolutionize the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) point-of-care (POC) field by developing for the first time a true quantitative sample-to-result POC test based on a re-purposed glucose meter, supported by socio-economic system analysis and artificial intelligence (AI)-based models for efficient and effective implementation in the field.
The IAM COMPACT project will exploit the state-of-the-art on the use and development of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), to support the assessment of global climate goals, progress, and feasibility space, as well as to enable the design of the next round of effective, desirable, feasible, and robust Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and policy planning beyond 2030 for the EU, major emitters, and non-high-income countries. The project will use a diverse ensemble of national and global IAMs, other sectoral models, and insights from social and political sciences and operations research, and will integrate different bodies of knowledge to co-design the research process and enhance its policy relevance, transparency, and robustness. A key ambition of the project is inter alia to expand the modelling comfort zone to account for deep uncertainties and disruptive events or innovations. The IAM COMPACT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Grand Agreement No. 101056306.
MPP is a movement of climate leaders and companies driving industrial decarbonisation across the entire value chain of the world’s highest-emitting heavy industry and transport sectors.
Next generation of advanced integrated assessment modelling to support climate policy making. Improving the capability of integrated assessment models by tackling existing weaknesses and lack of capabilities of the current generation of integrated assessment models, navigate will provide new insight into how long-term climate goals can translate into short-term policy action, and how countries and sectors can work in concert to implement the Paris agreement.
The European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP) brings together all the major stakeholders in the European steel industry. Our membership includes major steel manufacturers; universities and research institutions active in steel research; major users of steel; and public bodies like the European Commission and national governments – which have great interest in this vital industrial sector that is so important for Europe’s future. ESTEP aims to engage in collaborative EU actions and projects on technology, addressing European challenges to create a sustainable EU steel industry. ESTEP is a non-profit European Association managing and implementing the Clean Steel Public-Private Partnership, an instrument of the European Commission’s programme for research & innovation, Horizon Europe.
CINTRAN is a 4-year programme of research and stakeholder engagement, funded by Horizon 2020. Led by the Wuppertal Institute, the CINTRAN consortium involves 13 partners and around 40 researchers from 8 countries across Europe. Read more about the CINTRAN project here.
The decarbonization of the energy sector mandates a swift and widespread implementation of a clean and affordable energy infrastructure, mainly supported by photovoltaics (PV). The DIAMOND project joins 12 different Partners to develop ultra-stable, highly efficient, and low-cost perovskite PV with minimal environmental impact.
GoNEXUS is a 4-year (until may 2025) Horizon 2020 project supported by the European Commission. Through 8 in-depth case studies using river basins in Europe and Africa, its researchers will collaborate with stakeholders to re-balance water, food, energy, and ecosystems. The data from these case studies will be used to create scenarios for future impacts on the global and continental levels as well as for the climate and policy areas. GoNEXUS will develop an evaluation framework to design and assess innovative solutions for an efficient and sustainable coordinated governance of the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus.
TIPPING+, the Horizon 2020 project that advances the scientific understanding of the critical concept of Social-Ecological Tipping Points (SETPs) to support successful clean-energy transitions in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs).