EAP LAB team is currently involved in several funded european projects on energy systems, building energy efficiency and comfort, environmental sustainability, etc. EAP LAB well fits tailored research and innovation actions (RIA), innovation actions (IA), Marie Curie Actions, Coordination and support actions (CSA) within the framwork of Horizon 2020 Programme. 
Have a look below if you are interested in one of our projects. We would be glad to give you more info about any of them.
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The best is yet to come! At the moment we act as members of EU project consortia in 13 projects, including 1 ERC and several RIA, IA, MSCA, CSA, Cofund, Erasmus Plus, COST actions, etc.
​We are ready for new challenges and opportunities!

ZERO PLUS

ACHIEVING NEAR ZERO AND POSITIVE ENERGY SETTLEMENTS IN EUROPE USING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

In ZERO-PLUS, a comprehensive, cost-effective system for Net Zero Energy (NZE) settlements will be developed and implemented. The system will be composed of innovative solutions for the building envelope, for building energy generation and management, and for energy management at the settlement level. A reduction of operational energy usage to an average of 0-20 kWh/m2 per year (compared with the current average of 70-230 kWh/m2) will be achieved through a transition from single NZE buildings to NZE settlements, in which the energy loads and resources are optimally managed. A primary objective of the project will be to develop a system whose investment costs will be at least 16% lower than current costs. In order to reduce "balance of system" costs, an approach of mass customization will be employed. Mass produced technologies will be integrated in a system that is optimally designed according to the local climate and site of each project in which it is implemented. To this end, a structured process will be developed and applied for the integration, optimization and verification of the design. The project's work programme will ensure a rapid market uptake, within its four-year scope, of the innovative solutions that will be developed. These solutions will be implemented in four different demonstration projects throughout the EU, with varying climates and building types. The results of their implementation will be monitored, analyzed and disseminated. A comprehensive market analysis and business plan will support the commercial exploitation of the project's results. The project will be carried out by a consortium that includes universities, project owners, technology providers and organizations, which will closely collaborate in all the project's phases.
The role of University of Perugia corresponds to the integration at settlement level of all the technology productions and energy needs, by sprawling the boundary between the building scale and the neighborhood scale, which is the key contribution of this project at international level. Additionally, thanks to the effective construction of four settlement around Europe (in Italy, France, UK and Cyprus), the UNIPG group will also manage that design process, optimization and realization procedure, in order to take advantage of the initiative even at local scale. The project is coordinated by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and its participants are: the Technische Universität München, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Oxford Brookes University, the The Cyprus Institute, the Technical University of Crete, ABB Italy, Anerdgy A.G., FIBRAN S.A., CONSORZIO ARCA, Eco Ltd., OPAC38, CONTEDIL di Ricco M. & C. S.A.S., George Vassiliou Ltd., Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, together with University of Perugia.

​This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 678407 (ZERO-PLUS).

SAFERUP!

SMART AND INNOVATIVE URBAN PAVING SYSTEMS FOR URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION

OBJECTIVES The SAFERUP! network is designed to achieve the following General Objectives: Train top-level researchers and professionals with high expertise in the fields of recycled, smart and durable paving materials, vulnerable users and road safety, pedestrians accessibility y and protection, water management and bioremediation systems, behaviour simulators and life cycle assessment tools, road geothermal energy, energy harvesting and self-sensing technologies. Increase the employability and help satisfying the rising demand for such qualified researchers and managers making them ready to join industries, companies, research centres, universities and local or national management institutions related to the SAFERUP! topics. Push forward the scientific frontiers of urban pavements design, construction and management to provide cities with more liveable environments and safer, more accessible and sustainable spaces for mobility. Consolidate and expand the network of collaborations among the partners through the creation of an integrated, long-term research and training base in the EU that brings together universities, research institutes, industrial companies and stakeholders active in key research, development and management disciplines. Enhance academia-industry Transfer of Knowledge in both directions and obtain full value from the network by disseminating results in open access peer-reviewed scientific journals, trade magazines and international conferences and developing innovative solutions for the urban pavements of the future.

GEOFIT

SMART GEOTHERMAL TECHNOLOGIES

The project aims at elaborating a novel design and construction strategy for making more new geothermal systems more technically and economically appealing. The team role will face the big challange to study its application in historical buildings by means of hBIM analysis.
The implementation case study managed by EAP Lab at Unipg is a medioeval fortress close to Perugia, Italy, the first GBC Historical Building certification in the world (LEED consistent certification specifically tailored for historical buildings). The ancient stable building is a laboratory itself and a trigeneration system is already installed. The geothermal novel heat exchangers will be included into the circular economy loop for heating and cooling.

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NRG2peers

TOWARDS A NEW GENERATION OF EU PEER-TO-PEER ENERGY COMMUNITIES FACILITATED BY GAMIFIED PLATFORM AND EMPOWERED BY USER-CENTRED ENERGY TRADING MECHANISM AND BUSINESS MODELS.

The main aim of NRG2peers is to support the uptake of a next generation of European peer-to-peer Energy Communities. NRG2peers sets up a gamified platform in three levels, supporting residential energy communities to increase energy efficiency and to integrate a higher share of renewable energy. The NRG2peers platform aims to support the uptake and multiplication of attractive, financially, legally and technically viable, user-centred residential energy communities in three
concrete ways:
Level 1: Collecting experiences from operative peer-to-peer energy communities, whose assessment schemes are already compliant with national and EU legislations, in a way to deliver Readiness Level Framework Indicators (Organisational, Institutional, Market, Technological, Social) which helps to assess a communities’ readiness to become a peer-to-peer, peerto- community and peer-to-market (P2P, P2C, P2M) energy community, to incite investments from the public and private sector at the local level, and to support decision making and policy at the MS and EU level to ensure a prosumer-friendly environment;
Level 2: Providing smart demand-response mechanisms to optimize energy consumption and peak demand at the community level. The NRG2peers platform will adopt peer-to-peer privacy-aware learning mechanisms to ensure energy optimisation whereby three main aims are 1) Financial savings for the residential customers at community level 2) CO2 and environmental savings at the community level, and 3) Local self-reliance in terms of energy;
Level 3: Adopting community-based nudging mechanisms for peer-to-peer transaction of renewable energy and motivating
the maximal implementation and consumption of (local) RES production and consumption.
By combining 3 levels with gamified features supporting peer-to-peer behavioural-based incentives, the NRG2peers platform targets for global energy and CO2 emission savings at the community level, and investment triggered in sustainable energy in EU.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 890345(NRG2peers).
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HERACLES

HERITAGE RESILIENCE AGAINST CLIMATE EVENTS ON SITE

 ERACLES main objective is to design, validate and promote responsive systems/solutions for effective resilience of CH against climate change effects, considering as a mandatory premise an holistic, multidisciplinary approach through the involvement of different expertise (end-users, industry/SMEs, scientists, conservators/restorators and social experts, decision, and policy makers). This will be operationally pursued with the development of a system exploiting an ICT platform able to collect and integrate multisource information in order to effectively provide complete and updated situational awareness and support decision for innovative measurements improving CH resilience, including new solutions for maintenance and conservation. The HERACLES effectiveness will be ensured by the design and validation of manageable methodologies also for the definition of operational procedures and guidelines for risk mitigation and management. It will be validated in two challenging test beds, key study cases for the climate change impact on European CH assets. The strength of HERACLES solutions is their flexibility in evaluating a big quantity of different information that can be changed and tailored to the specific CH assets needs, guaranteeing in that way a general applicability. In this context, a fundamental role will be played by end-users, which will be active part in the project activities. HERACLES system will be designed and developed by accounting for the economic sustainability and future acceptance by the market and for the social and economic impact for public and local communities while respecting the integrity of CH and the value it hold for communities. Effective technological transfer of HERACLES outcomes to large companies, SMEs and end users, suitable dissemination, communication, education and training activities are also organized to disseminate vision and progresses obtained to different communities, in a vision of wide audiences awareness.​

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 700395 (HERACLES).

INPATH TES

PhD on Innovation Pathways for TES

Following the EC SET-Plan Education and Training Roadmap, the concept of this project is to develop a joint PhD programme between universities and research centres, on the topic of Thermal Energy Storage (TES). The goal of INPATH-TES (funded under the framework of the Horizon 2020 european research and innovation workplan, “Call: H2020-LCE-2014-2, Topic: LCE-20-2014, Type of action: CSA) is to create a network of universities and research institutes to implement a joint PhD programme on TES technologies. The final result of such a network is to educate professionals on these technologies for the European research and industry institutions. The consortium includes 14 universities that will implement the joint PhD programme, two research institutions (AIT and PROMES-CNRS), three companies and two SME (Arcelik, Abengoa Solar NT, KIC InnoEnergy, UFP and LAIF), that will cooperate in defining the programme and in its implementation and deployment. The specific objectives of the project will lead to the qualification of professionals for the European research and industry institutions, bringing Europe to continue being leaders in these technologies. The partners in the proposal will be the core of a future larger network of excellent R&D institutions, and industries for co-funding and industrial placement, sharing infrastructure capacities, and enhancing mobility of students. The overall approach of the project involves a work plan divided in six work packages, being either coordination or support activities. Coordination activities: WP1 – Management and coordination; WP3 – Developing, maintaining and updating a PhD programme in TES; and WP4 – Implementation of the PhD programme in TES. Support activities: WP2 – External communication and dissemination; WP5 – Stakeholder involvement and extension of partnerships; and WP6 – Framework for monitoring and evaluation of INPATH-TES as well as IPR and regulatory issues.

SWS-HEATING

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN INNOVATIVE SOLAR SELECTIVE-WATER-SORBENT-BASED HEATING SYSTEMe

The project aims at developing a compact solar-assisted heating system with advanced materials and components, for covering over 60% of heating demand (both space heating and DHW) of energy efficiency single-family houses in Central/North Europe (solar fraction is further increased in South Europe to over 80%). The core of the energy system is a multimodular thermochemical seasonal heat storage based on an innovative adsorption module employing Selective Water Sorbent (SWS) and dedicated heat exchangers (HEXs) in the adsorber, evaporator and condenser. High-efficiency solar collectors with vacuum tubes will be optimized for the specific requirements of the proposed system. A back-up heater is integrated for fully covering the heat demand during winter. The overall goal is to reduce the system size and cost compared to sensible seasonal TES, while maximizing its performance, compactness and simplicity of operations.
Intensive research will be conducted for nano-tailoring the innovative SWS materials, and optimizing both components and control with smart features and flexible operating modes. SWS-storage module prototypes will be designed, manufactured and initially tested in the lab. The test results will serve for optimizing and up-scaling the design of the full-scale SWSHEATING system, suitable for solar-active houses and then tested under real environment in two different climatic conditions. At the same time, user friendliness through automated operation, and low equipment costs and maintenance will be considered as design targets.
Key parallel activities are also planned, such as the investigation of social and environmental barriers to overcome and the development of appropriate business models towards its industrial level. The project also includes dissemination and communication activities to ensure outreach of its results. Moreover, exploitation activities include long-term deployment path development, according to the technology roadmap to be implemented.
​EAP Lab at University of Perugia
CIRIAF - Interuniversity research centre on pollution and environment Mauro Felli
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