EU Collaboration
EU Collaboration
NTNU's energy research leads the way
NTNU holds the 4th place among the 331 higher education institutions that received funding from the world's largest research and innovation program Horizon Europe in Cluster 5: Climate, energy and mobility and the Joint Undertakings (se figure below).
NTNU Energy facilitates the establishment of projects through strategic positioning in EU platforms, internal mapping, networking, and creating meeting places in the pre-award and post-award phase.
Horizon Europe brochure with NTNU’s energy researchers
Through an extensive mapping exercise in collaboration with NTNU’s Brussels office, we have collected NTNU’s energy researchers' interests in the Horizon Europe calls and paired them with their expertise and industry relations in a brochure.
The brochure aims at marketing NTNU’s researchers’ expertise in cluster 5 “climate, energy and mobility” to potential European partners in research and industry. It is meant to build the network especially of those energy researchers at NTNU that are in the beginning of their career. It has been distributed amply to several thousand recipients and is being updated regularly.
Read or download the Horizon Europe Calls 2023/2024 brochure (pdf).
NTNU Energy’s mirror organization of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)
NTNU is involved in Europe’s largest energy research community, the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). EERA is an important collaboration platform for energy research in Europe. It is the research pillar in the European Union’s Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan), which aims to accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies though 17 joint research programmes (JP).
NTNU is active in 13 and coordinating 2 EERA JP (“Smart Cities” and “Hydropower”).
EERA representatives participate in strategic meetings and networks. NTNU Energy operates a mirror organization of EERA, closely linked to our interdisciplinary research teams and which is used as an arena for sharing information, enabling strategy discussions, and encouraging initiatives on a national and European level. This umbrella organization brings together academics from different research disciplines and acts as a facilitator within NTNU.
Recharging Hydropower in Europe
In the autumn of 2017, NTNU Energy invited the European Commission to a workshop in Brussels on the role of hydropower in Europe. Following the workshop, we invited to several seminars in Brussels where other renowned research environments from all over Europe participated. The initiative was met with great interest and a willingness to establish a joint initiative and network on hydropower in Europe.
NTNU Energy, the Brussels Office and the Research Centre HydroCen then worked purposefully and efficiently together to lift this initiative. Through our joint efforts, we created a basis for the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) to establish a joint program (JP) on hydropower. Today, JP Hydropower consists of 29 members from 13 countries, and is managed by NTNU.
EiT InnoEnergy
NTNU Energy is the Norwegian partner and a Gold Member in the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) InnoEnergy, financed by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). Read more about our involvement.
