Research Infrastructure Services for Renewable Energy (RISEnergy) project is dedicated to fostering a long-term, coordinated research effort among leading research institutions and private companies to advance energy technologies within the EU.
The central approach of RISEnergy revolves around three key activities designed to lay the foundation of a novel Renewable Energy Research Infrastructure (RI) Ecosystem:
- Access to outstanding RIs;
- Access to cross-RI services;
- Access to proactive innovation management.
RISEnergy materialises the most extensive Transnational Access (TA) programme ever deployed for renewables across all EU framework programmes. It encompasses 84 TAs covering all target areas of renewable RIs, along with three Virtual Access (VA) RIs in the project’s portfolio. The energy technology areas covered are Photovoltaics (PV), Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)/Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Hydrogen, Biofuels, Wind Energy, Ocean Energy, Integrated Grids and Energy Storage, as well as two cross-cutting areas, Materials Research and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Moreover, to add value to RISEnergy beyond RI access, approximately one-third of the funding is allocated to creating synergies between the renewable energy target areas, thereby maximising the innovative impact of these access opportunities. Users will also benefit from RISEnergy’s cross-cutting services and proactive innovation management activities.
TA calls open every six months. On the contrary, no specific application forms or proposal submission is requested for VA.
RISEnergy usually publishes calls for TA applications twice a year, at the end of March and the end of September. The final call will be launched in September 2027. The forthcoming call is scheduled in September 2026.
- More info about the project: https://risenergy-project.eu/
- More info about the access: https://risenergy-project.eu/ta-access/ and https://risenergy-project.eu/va-access/