The 2021 SFERA Call for access to research infrastructures is now open!

The SFERA III funding programme enables to get free access to 22 installations of 12 state-of-the-art research infrastructures in Concentrated Solar Thermal power in 8 countries.

This 3rd SFERA-III access campaign was launched on 16 November 2020 and is open until 31 January 2021. The selected projects will benefit from 1 to 4 weeks of free access to the chosen facilities for a team of up to 2 persons. Travel, accommodation and subsistence costs are reimbursed by the projects budget

The campaign offers access to a wide spectrum of experiments such as:

• Solar thermal electricity generation.
• Solar fuels production.
• Cycles for chemical storage of solar energy.
• Solar water treatment.
• Solar heating and cooling of buildings to improve energy efficiency.
• Modelling and controlling of concentrating solar technologies for power plants and for industrial processes.
• High value material synthesis and/or coatings deposits.
• High-flux photochemistry and photo-physics.
• Characterisation of materials behaviour and properties under extreme conditions.

Click here for more information about the call.