LEAP-RE – Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy
LEAP-RE (Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy) is a project funded by Horizon 2020, under the H2020 call LC-SC3-JA-5-2020.
The project's duration is 63 months, starting October 1, 2020.
La durata del progetto è di 63 mesi a partire dal 1 ottobre 2020.
LEAP-RE seeks to create a long-term partnership of African and European stakeholders in the field of renewable energy. Within five years, the project aims to support collaborative research and innovation projects and will develop renewable energy innovations directly as part of the project.
LEAP-RE draws on the expertise of organizations from all continents and across all sectors: government, research and academia, the private sector, and civil society. Together, they will share knowledge and methods to effectively contribute to the fight against climate change, enabling access to clean energy for all.
The project boasts a consortium of 96 partners from 34 countries and two international organizations, ensuring broad thematic, geographical, and stakeholder coverage. It aims to demonstrate the viability of collaboration and establish trust for a long-term partnership spanning the post-2025 period.
LEAP-RE is structured around three pillars:
Pillar 1 focuses on external research funding and capacity building through open calls for proposals;
Pillar 2 brings together European and African actors in eight research and/or innovation projects, selected by the consortium in early 2020;
Pillar 3 consists of the management of the LEAP-RE program and all strategic activities aimed at developing and strengthening the future long-term AU-EU partnership.
Specifically, the CNR will participate extensively in Pillar 2.
LEAP-RE is divided into 17 Work Packages. The CNR is involved in WP9, called Geothermal Atlas for Africa, with the following main activities:
task 1) collection of all existing geological-structural, geochemical, geophysical, thermal, and petrophysical data necessary for the characterization of Africa's subsurface and geothermal systems;
task 4) use of all data made available by previous tasks to create the Geothermal Atlas of Africa; task 5) creation of links between African and European researchers and institutions.