News archive - BICRO invests 5.3 million HRK in the establishment of the Competence Centre for Renewable Energy
One of the main reasons for Centre for Renewable Energy Competence establishment is to become a leading center for the technologies development based on renewable energy in Croatia. The project aims to stimulate the effective interaction between researchers, industry and public sector through thematic research that contributes to economic growth because they are directly related to the needs of the business sector.
Scientific partners who have expressed a willingness to cooperate with the Centre in implementing projects are the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Polytechnic of Varaždin, Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE in Freiburg and the Technical University of Eindhoven. Partners from the business sector are Solvis Ltd. from Varaždin and Siemens d.d. from Zagreb.
Activities include: pooling of knowledge, the concentration of infrastructure, creation of new knowledge based on various forms of research and training and dissemination of knowledge to target interest groups with a unique custom approach. It is expected that investment in the project exceed 19 million, of which the BICRO co-funding of 5,376,083 EUR will be delivered through technology infrastructure development program –TEHCRO, in the first five years of operation.
Source: Finno
- Croatia
Entry created by Ines Marinkovic on February 23, 2012
Modified on February 23, 2012
