SFERA III

Solar Facilities for the European Research Area

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SFERA III is a Horizon 2020 project funded under the Research Infrastructure Programme. The consortium is coordinated by CIEMAT-PSA and made by a total of 15 partners from 9 EU member countries. The project runs from January 2019 to December 2023 and will receive a 9,103 M€ EC grant over these 5 years.

The overall objective of this project is to carry on with the work done during the past 8 years in the SFERA 1 and SFERA 2 projects and reinforce the sustainability of the activities of the European advanced Concentrating Solar Power research infrastructures.

Those activities will include (i) networking activities to further develop the cooperation between the research infrastructures, the scientific community, industries and other stakeholders; (ii) transnational access activities aiming at providing access to all European researchers from both academia and industry to singular scientific and technological solar research infrastructures; and (iii) joint research activities whose sole purpose is to improve the integrated services provided by the infrastructure.

Access to CSP
Research Infrastructures

Provision of Transnational Access to CIESOL

Provision of Transnational Access to METU

Provision of Transnational Access to LNEG

Provision of Transnational Access to FRAUNHOFER

Provision of Transnational Access to CYI

Provision of Transnational Access to IMDEA

Provision of Transnational Access to ETHZ

Provision of Transnational Access to UEVORA

Provision of Transnational Access to CEA

Provision of Transnational Access to DLR

Provision of Transnational Access to ENEA

Provision of Transnational Access to PROMES-CNRS

FONT ROMEU ODEILLO (FRANCE)

Provision of Transnational Access to PSA-CIEMAT

(Spain)

More information on access possibilities

News

12 Apr

SFERA-III Final Brochure

On the occasion of the closure of the SFERA-III project, a final brochure has been delivered . In this 12-page publication, you can find all the key information about the project, such as: main facts and figures about the project an introduction...

21 Dec

SFERA-III Final Event

SFERA-III organised its Final Event on Wednesday 13th December 2023, at CIEMAT headquarters, Madrid, Spain. About the event The event gathered more than 80 representatives (55 on-site and 25 online) from the research and academic community (active in the field...

29 Nov

SFERA-III 5th Training for Industries

From 6 to 10 November 2023, by Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems organised the 5th SFERA-III Training for Industries course at Fraunhofer premises in Freiburg, Germany. The objective was to offer a course or engineers, researchers and representatives from European CSP...

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 823802

SFERA III

Solar Facilities for the European Research Area

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