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Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems

• Deadline: 21 January 2025

Expected outcome:

Projects results are expected to contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:

Facilitate the wider uptake of renewable energy systems in the energy, industrial and residential sectors leading to an increased share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption by 2030 and beyond.
Contribute to provide open source validated tools and methodologies for policy makers and stakeholders for developing more informed RES policy and for analysing the market dynamics when including all renewable energies.
Contribute to the development of markets and respective financial frameworks that can operate in an efficiently and incentive-compatible manner while accommodating massive shares of renewables.
Improve social acceptability of renewable energy facilities and

Scope:

The proposal is expected to develop solutions addressing at least 2 of the expected outcomes either for the entire renewable energy market or focusing on a specific energy sector, such as electricity, heating, cooling or renewable fuels. Proposals can also address issues within a specific geographical region such as urban and peri-urban areas. Issues related to acceptability of RES technologies due to ecologic, economic and social aspects are expected to be addressed. Self-consumption issues can be addressed too. International aspects, such as collaboration with third countries and promoting solution in new markets, can be addressed as well.

Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts

• Deadline: 21 January 2025

Expected outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Increased knowledge about design, construction, assembly and operation and maintenance of floating wind farms.
Improved overall constructability, reliability, installability, operability and maintainability of floating offshore wind systems.
Demonstrated efficient, low-cost and sustainable emerging technologies for floating wind turbines; reduction of the LCoE.
Reinforced European offshore wind turbine value chain and
Data for future optimisation of industry scale commissioning of the floater, mooring and anchor system.

Scope:

The overall aim is to accelerate the cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs. Projects are expected to:

Do the design optimisation of a full floating system, facilitate the execution of the project addressing space needs in ports, vessels, etc., supply chain development
Demonstrate innovative floating or horizontal axis offshore wind energy platforms in real sea conditions for long periods of time (12-24 months), collect data for future improvement design of the concept, to accurately predict future floating wind energy production and providing valuable learnings regarding performance, reliability, availability, maintainability, survivability, and environmental The wind energy system should be grid-connected.
Develop and implement pilot projects for floating wind by identifying the best existing practices and the remaining knowledge gaps.

Industrialisation of sustainable and circular deep renovation workflows

• Deadline: 21 January 2025

Expected outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Streamlining resource-efficient nearly zero-energy performance renovation processes.
Renovations with a reduction of at least 30% waste, 25% cost, and 30% work time, compared to current deep renovation processes.
Reduced energy performance gap between as-built and as-designed, and higher contruction
Innovative, tailored business models for deep renovation, generating economies of scale and contributing to an increased rate of renovation.
Improved comfort, Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Environmental

Scope:

In line with the Renovation Wave and in order to meet long-term climate and energy targets, more action is needed to increase the rate and depth of building renovation. Several recent projects and calls have focused on prefabrication for deep renovation, but more work is needed to develop innovative, seamless workflows from design to off-site prefabrication, to installation, construction on-site, maintenance and future dismantling, reuse and recycling of prefabricated elements, duly considering life cycle performance, sustainability, and the potential to us the buildings as carbon sinks.

Proposals are expected to address all of the following:

Investigate innovative approaches for industrialised deep circular renovation, covering the whole workflow from design through to off-site prefabrication, installation, construction on-site and strategies for maintenance, operation and end of life.
Ensure the proposed approaches aim to achieve the highest level of energy performance with a view toward zero-emission buildings, ensuring a high level of indoor environment quality, keeping costs in an attractive range for owners and
Make use of innovative processes and technologies, including those delivered by previous research, such as design based on circularity principles, prefabricated components, and digital tools that allow optimization of workflows (cost, time, quality, resource use).
Demonstrate a seamless integration of the proposed approaches with state-of-the- art digital technologies for construction and renovation.

Select processes and technologies that can be easily tailored to give a maximum potential for rapid and broad deployment at European level.
Contribute to the activities of the Built’People partners and to the Built’people network of innovation clusters.

Minimisation of environmental, and optimisation of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms

• Deadline: 21 January 2025

Expected outcome:

If the project is on the first action 1) then the project results are expected to contribute to at least three of the outcomes a), b), and c). If the project is on the second action 2) then the project results are expected to contribute to at least two of the outcomes a), b), and d)

Enhanced sustainability by addressing economic, social, and environmental aspects of offshore wind farms (a).
Enhanced overall sustainability of large-scale production of offshore wind farms based on mainstreamed Life Cycle Analysis addressing social, economic, and environmental aspects, as well as improved circularity of offshore wind turbines (b).
Improved understanding on the negative and positive impacts of offshore wind farms throughout their lifetime (c).
Innovative and cost-effective solutions for the construction and decommissioning of offshore wind farms aiming also the minimisation of the potential impacts to biodiversity and protected species and habitats (d).

Scope:

The aim is to develop and promote the use of modeling tools and objective holistic assessment metrics for realistic in-depth analysis of (cumulative) impacts of wind installations on the environment and on the local communities and to integrate these in design tools for the deployment and decommissioning of offshore wind farms. It will also be necessary to find innovative solutions to minimise the environmental impact during all stages of the life cycle of offshore wind farms but especially for the construction and decommissioning phase. An assessment framework for installations is needed with nature- inclusive design options valuing ‘created habitats’ vs ‘natural habitats’.

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Design for adaptability, re-use and deconstruction of buildings, in line with the principles of circular economy

Deadline: 21 January 2025

Expected outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Improved adaptability of buildings and building units to new uses.

Increased reuse and recycling of building elements and products.
Extended service life of buildings.
Increased awareness on best practises for design for adaptability, reuse and deconstruction.

Scope:

Based on the integration of innovative tools, products and techniques, to enable the construction and renovation that embeds the principle of extending the service life of buildings, and facilitate adaptability, reuse, and deconstruction, in a life-cycle optimisation and circular economy perspective.

Proposals are expected to address all the following:

Validate construction and renovation soluions based on the integration of innovative tools, products, techniques, processes and methods, that facilitate deconstruction and reuse, based on life-cycle approaches across the value chain.
Ensure the solutions validated:

Consider the adaptability and reversability of buildings and building units to changing uses, and to other relevant factors.
Improve the ease of reuse of construction elements and products from existing buildings, also facilitating recycling when reuse is not possible.
Develop building elements and products that can be disassembled and reused, including those made from CO2-storing materials such as sustainability sourced long- lived bio-based materials and products and, innovative lower emission materials/aggregates.
Address all components of buildings, including structural elements, envelopes, interior fixtures and fittings, and technical building systems.
Are rooted in local and regional value chains, based on participative approaches for social acceptability of innovation, in particular with regard to the workforce’s practices and skills.
Can flexibly adapt to local/regional sourcing of innovative products and materials to increase replication.
Address climate change mitigation, minimising emissions.
Allow to minimise any negative impacts of pollution and biodiversity loss from renovation and construction works.
- Deliver guidance and recommendations for technology providers, regulatory authorities, certification and standardisation bodies, and define and implement ambitious dissemination actions, to promote the approaches demonstrated and support their replication.

Where relevant, contribute through specific and targeted actions to standardisation and regulatory evolutions that can foster reuse and deconstruction of buildings materials and products.

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