The Week of Innovative Regions WIRE 2012 Conference will be a flagship discussion forum dedicated to regional development based on knowledge and innovation addressing main current issues related to the effective implementation of EU headline targets at the regional level. The Conference will dedicate special attention to the regional dimension as these regions are at the core of the Cohesion Policy and create significant stakeholders of the EU main documents such as the Strategy Europe 2020 and the Horizon 2020. Read More

Jönköping (Sweden) will once again be hosting World Bioenergy, the sixth edition of this international gathering of bioenergy stakeholders, from 29 - 31 May 2012. The meeting is in fact a number of parallel conferences, covering a key range of issues. Read More

ERTICO – ITS Europe will be holding the 19th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS) in Vienna (Austria) from 22 – 26 October, 2012. Read More

A conference on “Scientific support for growth, jobs and sustainability: the example of the Eco-Industries” to be held in Brussels on 15 May by the EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) will give high level representatives from science and industry an opportunity to meet to discuss issues raised by so-called Eco-industries. Read More

Researchers and professionals from a wide range of science and engineering disciplines will be gathering in Torremolinos (Malaga, Spain) from 20 to 22 June 2012 for the Energy & Materials Research Conference (EMR2012). Read More

At a conference on “Multilateral cooperation for the integration of the Mediterranean electricity systems” held on 4 May, 2012 in Rome (Italy), the European Commission officially launched the cooperation platform of Mediterranean transmission system operators (Med-TSO). Read More

Hidroenergia is traditionally regarded as the key event of the Small Hydropower (SHP) sector during which new political, financial and technical sector developments are debated and assessed. Read More

Top energy executives from Europe and across the world will join EU and international officials and business stakeholders in Malta on 4-5 June 2012 for the Eurelectric annual convention and conference. This year the theme is “Politics vs Industry: On the Cliff Edge – Europe’s New Energy Challenges”. Read More

The European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative (EIBI) was launched at the Belgian presidency SET-Plan conference on 15-16 November 2010 following agreement on common objectives, a roadmap and an action plan between industry, Member States and the European Commission. Read More

The Week of Innovative Regions WIRE 2012 Conference will be a flagship discussion forum dedicated to regional development based on knowledge and innovation addressing main current issues related to the effective implementation of EU headline targets at the regional level. The Conference will dedicate special attention to the regional dimension as these regions are at the core of the Cohesion Policy and create significant stakeholders of the EU main documents such as the Strategy Europe 2020 and the Horizon 2020. Read More

Researchers and professionals from a wide range of science and engineering disciplines will be gathering in Torremolinos (Malaga, Spain) from 20 to 22 June 2012 for the Energy & Materials Research Conference (EMR2012). Read More

The AEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference is one of the leading bioenergy conferences in Europe. The annual conference has grown ever since its first edition in 2010 and has quickly become Europe's major occasion for exchange and interaction between industry and policy. Read More

Final reports of past SETIS workshops and hearings Read More

Pumped hydropower storage (PHS) is currently the only widespread electricity storage technology able to the offer large-scale storage that is needed for accommodating renewable electricity under the 2020 EU energy targets. Read More

Pulp and paper is an energy-intensive industry. On average, energy costs are 16 % of the production costs and in some cases up to 30 %. This industry is the largest user and producer of renewable energy (around 50 % of the primary energy consumption comes from biomass). Read More

The GHG emissions from the Iron and Steel industry during the period 2005 to 2008 on average amounted to 252.5 Mt of CO2 eq. In Europe, about 80 % of CO2 emissions related to the integrated route originates from waste gases. Read More

Cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together; its most important use is the production of concrete. Concrete is the most-used, man-made material in the world, almost three tonnes of concrete are produced in the world per person, twice as much as the rest of materials together, including wood, steel, plastics and aluminum. Read More

The Materials Roadmap aims at contributing to strategic decisions on materials research funding at European and Member State levels and is aligned with the priorities of the SET-Plan. It is meant to serve as a guide for developing specific research and development activities in the field of materials for energy applications over the next 10 years. Read More

The Institute for Energy and Transport of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has conducted a study to assess whether there could be any potential bottlenecks to the deployment of low-carbon energy technologies in the EU due to the shortage of certain metals. The study examined the use of metals in the six low-carbon energy technologies of SET-Plan, namely: nuclear, solar, wind, bioenergy, carbon capture and storage and the electricity grid. Read More

The EBTP brings together the knowledge and expertise of stakeholders from industry, biomass resources providers, research & technology development organisations and NGOs in a public private partnership

The aim of the SmartGrids European Technology Platform for Electricity Networks of the Future is to formulate and promote a vision for the development of European electricity networks looking towards 2020 and beyond

TPWind is the forum for policy and technology research and development pathways for the wind energy sector

The Photovoltaic Technology Platform is an initiative which aims at mobilising all the actors sharing a long-term European vision for photovoltaic energy

SNETP promotes research, development and demonstration of the nuclear fission technologies necessary to achieve the SET-Plan goals in this field

The Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP) European Technology Platform is a unique coalition of stakeholders united in their support for CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) as a key technology for combating climate change