ETRERA

Empowering Tunisian Renewable Energy Research Activities

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'EU S&T policy aims at enhancing the research potential of the enlarged European Research Area by strengthening the research and technological development capacities of research entities belonging to Mediterranean Partner Countries. The project goal is to unlock the large knowledge potential from European research activities in the area of renewable Energy field for uptake and exploitation in scientific and technological research centres of a MPC third country. Therefore ETRERA –Empowering Tunisian Renewable Energy Research Activities- will provide a contribute to strengthen a closer cooperation between European research centres of excellence and research centre belonging to MPC third countries in order to enhance MPC research entities empowerment. The proposal aims at networking two European research centres of excellence, one belonging to European convergence region and the other one from the Member States, with a third one coming from Tunisia country, all of them working on renewable energy field. Consequently the project idea is to improve S&T cooperation opportunities and relationships in the strategic field of renewable energy between European Member States and Tunisia, especially by upgrading research capacities of Tunisia and making visible their research activities to a largest European scientific public. The proposal aims to set up different integrated actions such as, knowledge transfer, development and upgrading of Tunisian S&T research capacities and human potential, exploiting knowledge coming from the European leading research centres. The starting point of the proposal has been provided by the SWOT Analysis on scientific and technological state of the art of Tunisian CRTEn in charge of researching in the field of renewable energy.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Tunisia goes down the sustainable energy path

Descrizione progetto (Article)

European S & T aims to further develop the research potential of the enlarged European Research Area (ERA) by increasing Mediterranean Partner Country (MPC) research and technological capacities. Moreover, fuel cells and hydrogen are becoming one of Europe's leading new strategic energy technologies.

Supported by EU funding, the 'Empowering Tunisian renewable energy research activities' (http://www.etrera.eu (ETRERA)) project aimed to advance renewable energy in Tunisia through powerful new synergies. The project brought the Tunisian Research and Technology Center of Energy (CRTEn) together with three European research centres of excellence in France and Italy.

The European centres with complementary know-how on fuel cell and hydrogen technologies were based on a CRTEn strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis. This helped point out CRTEn main research activities and S & T needs in terms of know-how, expertise, technologies and missing equipment. Based on this, project members were involved in a number of coordinated activities.

To aid CRTEn capacity building, the project oversaw staff exchanges and conducted seminars to train emerging young researchers and postdoctoral students. New researchers were recruited, thus forming a new group that started working on polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), and a new PEFC laboratory was built.

Project members helped CRTEn gain access to international scientific communities, networks and platforms on fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. Furthermore, the Centre improved its visibility at international level by establishing partnerships with the most relevant research centres and industrial enterprises. ETRERA partners also signed a framework agreement to continue future S & T cooperation with Tunisia.

Collaboration initiatives among different countries play a fundamental role in developing and spreading knowledge regarding sustainable energy production. As Tunisia has limited conventional energy resources, ETRERA helped boost its economy and strengthen its vision for sustainability.