EU publishes 51 new calls for research

Aug. 16, 2010 – As part of the future EU flagship initiative “Innovation Union”, the European Commission has launched 51 calls for research together with the announcement of a €6.4 billion fund for research projects, including on energy efficient buildings.

The Irish Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is the first to be in charge of the combined research and innovation portfolio that until the end of 2009 had been under the sceptre of different Directorate Generals (DGs). In this capacity, she announced this week nearly €6.4 billion of investment in research and development to be spent by the end of 2011.

The objectives are to enhance Europe's competitiveness and to lead the Union towards sustainable and equitable growth. The Commissioner expects with the stimulus package to create around 165,000 jobs, involving 16,000 researchers and employees of 3,000 SMEs in research projects centred around climate change, energy, food security, health and the ageing population.

Call title "Energy-efficient Buildings" - 2011

€85.5 million are earmarked for energy-efficient buildings. The topics called for in this context are amongst others:

New efficient solutions for energy generation, storage and use related to space heating and domestic hot water in existing buildings (EeB.NMP.2011-2)
Technologies for ensuring, monitoring and/or controlling a high quality indoor environment particularly in relation to energy efficient buildings (EeB.ENV.2011.3.1.5-1)
Demonstration of very low energy new buildings (EeB.ENERGY.2011.8.1-1)

Source: R744.com