Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and economically viable way, by means of thermal energy storage and\/or hybridization, e.g. with biomass. However, significant research efforts are needed to achieve this goal. This Integrated Research Programme (IRP) engages all major European research institutes, with relevant and recognized activities on STE and related technologies, in an integrated research structure to successfully accomplish the following general objectives: a) Convert the consortium into a reference institution for concentrating solar energy research in Europe, creating a new entity with effective governance structure; b) Enhance the cooperation between EU research institutions participating in the IRP to create EU added value; c) Synchronize the different national research programs to avoid duplication and to achieve better and faster results; d) Accelerate the transfer of knowledge to industry in order to maintain and strengthen the existing European industrial leadership in STE; e) Expand joint activities among research centres by offering researchers and industry a comprehensive portfolio of research capabilities, bringing added value to innovation and industry-driven technology; f) Establish the European reference association for promoting and coordinating international cooperation in concentrating solar energy research. To that end, this IRP promotes Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) and, in parallel, performs Coordinated Projects (CP) covering the full spectrum of current concentrating solar energy research topics, selected to provide the highest EU added value and filling the gaps among national programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11201,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[],"class_list":["post-19621","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"title":"Scientific and technological alliance for guaranteeing the european excellence in concentrating solar thermal energy","acronym":"STAGE-STE","project_uuid":"61989e90-b567-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","start_date":"01\/02\/2014","end_date":"31\/01\/2017","funder":"EU FP7","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas<\/a><\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.-German Remote Sensing <\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Contractor<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich<\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| The Cyprus Institute Limited<\/td>\n | Cyprus<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Laboratorio Nacional De Energia E Geologia I.P.<\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fundacion Centro Tecnologico Avanzado De Energias Renovables De Andalucia<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fundacion Cener-Ciemat<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universidade De Evora<\/td>\n | Portugal<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fundacion Imdea Energia<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fundacion Tekniker<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Palermo<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Inesc Id - Instituto De Engenhariade Sistemas E Computadores, Investigacao E Desenvolvimento Em Lisboa Associacao<\/td>\n | Portugal<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Associacao Do Instituto Superior Tecnico Para A Investigacao E Desenvolvimento<\/td>\n | Portugal<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Hse Hitit Solar Enerji As<\/td>\n | Turkey<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Acciona Energia S.A.<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Schott Solar Csp Gmbh<\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Archimede Solar Energy Srl<\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| European Solar Thermal Electricity Association<\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Abengoa Solar New Technologies Sa<\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| King Saud University<\/td>\n | Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico<\/td>\n | Mexico<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Stellenbosch University<\/td>\n | South Africa<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Centre For Solar Energy Research And Studies<\/td>\n | Libya<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation<\/a><\/td>\n | Australia<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fundacao De Apoio A Universidade De Sao Paulo<\/td>\n | Brasil<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Institute Of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy Of Sciences<\/td>\n | China<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universidad De Chile<\/td>\n | Chile<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universite Cadi Ayyad<\/td>\n | Morocco<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fondazione Bruno Kessler<\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Paul Scherrer Institut<\/a><\/td>\n | Switzerland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Commissariat A L Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Cranfield University<\/a><\/td>\n | United Kingdom<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Sener Ingenieria y sistemas sa<\/a><\/td>\n | Spain<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"www.stage-ste.eu","project_status":"Execution","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10255,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:40","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:40","post_content":"Erminia Leonardi is a senior researcher in the Bioengineering group at CRS4. She holds a Chemistry degree (1991) at the University of Sassari, and a Ph.D degree (1996) in Physical Chemistry at the University of Siena. Prior to joining CRS4, she conducted research in the field of quantum chemistry, by using appropriate theory and mathematical tools to study vibronic structures of small molecules of environmental interest. This activity was conducted at the Departments of Chemistry of the University of Pisa and Wuppertal (Germany). Her research interest at CRS4 included modeling and simulations to solve problems related to groundwater pollution (RaCoS project), solar desalination (Lebanon project), interaction of nuclear fission fragments with hydrogen in nuclear space engine (Rubbia's P242 project), multicomponent diffusion within zeolites for water cleaning (Eni), thermodiffusion and concentrating solar power systems, solar tower technologies (EU-STAGE STE). She has papers in the major international refereed journals, as Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Solar Energy, J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem, Mol. Phys., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. and two patents: \"Heat extraction process from the solar pond\" (1999), \"Method and device for controlling a solar energy system of the type to focus on more towers with heliostats\" (2013).","post_title":"Erminia Leonardi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"erminia-leonardi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-09 12:11:44","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-09 10:11:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/erminia-leonardi\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10059,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:38","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:38","post_content":"POSITION\t\t: \tSenior Researcher Since 1991, Lorenzo Pisani works as researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). He holds a Laurea (M.Sc.) degree in Physics (1990) from the University of Pisa, Italy and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics (1997) from the University of Strasbourg, France. During his research activity, he has developed physical models and numerical simulation codes in various fields, including: i) effects of relativity and electronic correlation on the chemistry of atoms and molecules, ii) propagation and scattering of electromagnetic wave, and iii) low temperature and high temperature fuel cells - fuel cells materials. He served as reviewer for the main journals in the field of fuel cells and taught advanced courses on masters and summer schools.","post_title":"Lorenzo Pisani","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"lorenzo-pisani","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-09 12:13:25","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-09 10:13:25","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/lorenzo-pisani\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |