- LOGO:
- DURATION: 09/2022-08/2025
- GENERAL OBJETIVE: PROMISE aims to create (i) an alliance of photovoltaic excellence through scientific, engineering and research performance within the Maltese research community; (ii) reliability of existing and emerging module technologies and systems including the digitalisation aspects for prediction; (iii) and optimisation algorithms for innovative solutions to support the energy transition. The Maltese research community led by the Foundation for Innovation and Research – Malta (FiR) and supported by local technology innovator PIXAM Ltd. will stimulate scientific excellence and sustained collaborations with four world-leading research institutions AIT (Austria), CENER (Spain), CEA (France), and BI Becquerel Institute (Belgium), and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Germany) as the leading EU academic applied practice partner.In particular, PROMISE will perform two programmes in research and knowledge taking into consideration gender balance, early career researchers and sustainable development goals. The research framework includes a bottom-up approach for a Malta-based research platform on PV reliability including infrastructure, data collection, analysis and modelling/verification through module test rig, satellite and drone vision technologies and in-field database of solar module manufacturers. The knowledge gain and transfer framework include capacity building activities including a series of workshops, winter/summer schools, training programmes, internships, meetings, mentoring, as well as research management and administration upskilling. The PROMISE results, lessons learnt, best practices, and success stories will feed a scalability opportunity, extending the research platform to a nationwide/regional landscape, while also generating concrete research capacity for a more enabling environment for research in PV reliability in Malta as a solar country and regional energy hub.
- CENER´S ROL: CENER is the leader of WP5, research management and administration including networking & stakeholders. As such, it will look to achieve the upskilling of research management and administration, to address networking gaps is at the core of the TWINNING programme and to strengthen the research cooperation, networking and position of the applicant partners in the field. It also leads tasks 2.3 and 3.3. In task 2.3: Presenting, participating, networking, synergising and cooperating in dissemination events of PV reliability aspects, it targets audiences such as educational institutions, associations, regulator and policy makers, industry, SMEs and local communities to inform, engage, create awareness and promote information about PROMISE to achieve a high level of impact. In task 3.3, Research Data Collection and Analysis CENER will monitor on a regular basis the mini-infrastructure and framework in PV reliability infrastructure and produce bi-monthly reports on the data analytics.
- BUDGET: TOTAL: 1.500.105,50€ , CENER: 137.363€
- PARTNERS: Foundation for Innovation and Research – Malta (FiR.mt) , AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH , COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES , FUNDACION CENER , HOCHSCHULE ANHALT , ICARES CONSULTING , PIXAM LTD
