LEAP-RE

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Davide Poli, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Energia, dei Sistemi, del Territorio e delle Costruzioni

The LEAP-RE programme aligns with and responds to the AU-EU high-level policies and specific objectives of the CCSE Roadmap. It seeks to create a long-term partnership of African and European stakeholders in a quadruple helix approach: government (programme owners and funding agencies), research and academia, private sector, and civil society. Impact will be sought by creating a framework, methodology, and cooperation model. The aim is to reduce fragmentation by aligning existing bilateral and multilateral frameworks. LEAP-RE establishes and jointly implements research, innovation, and capacity-building activities that respond to the Multi-Annual Roadmaps (MARs) developed in PRE-LEAP-RE.
The programme opted for a large-scale, inclusive consortium of 96 partners from 34 countries and 2 international organisations, to ensure a broad thematic, geographical and stakeholder coverage, and to demonstrate the feasibility of the collaboration and build trust in view of a long-term partnership addressing the post-2025 period.
LEAP-RE draws on the experience and partnership developed in PRE-LEAP-RE, which conceptualised and developed a framework for long-term, bi-regional cooperation in research, innovation, and capacity building in renewable energies. This partnership is further strengthened by previous collaboration between partners in other projects supporting the EU-Africa HLPD on STI, such as LEAP-Agri, ERAfrica, LEAP4FNSSA, RINEA, and CAAST-Net Plus. Furthermore, the proposal includes a number of R&I partners, 8 individual projects (formalised as Work Packages), which were chosen among expressions of interest received in late 2019.

Coordinator
LGI CONSULTING, France

Other participants

ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ASRT, Egypt
ADDIS ABABA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY, Ethiopia
AFRICA ENERGY SERVICES GROUP LTD, Rwanda
AFRICAN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION HUBS, Nigeria
AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE, France
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, Italy
ARESS, Benin
BOTSWANA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Botswana
BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES, France
CENTRE DE DEVELOPPEMENT DES ENERGIES RENOUVELABLES, Algeria
CENTRE DE TEST DES SYSTEMES SOLAIRE, Senegal
CENTRO PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO INDUSTRIAL, Spain
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Italy
DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Kenya
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, South Africa
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV, Germany
EIFER EUROPAISCHES INSTITUT FUR ENERGIEFORSCHUNG EDF KIT EWIV, Germany
ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (EDCL) LTD, Rwanda
FONDATION 2IE ASSOCIATION, Burkina Faso
FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI, Italy
FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE- FNRS, Belgium
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH, Germany
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., Germany
FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA, Portugal
GEO2D, France
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM POTSDAM DEUTSCHESGEOFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GFZ, Germany
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland
INEA INFORMATIZACIJA ENERGETIKA AVTOMATIZACIJA DOO, Slovenia
INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES EN ENERGIE SOLAIRE ET ENERGIES NOUVELLES, Morocco
INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DALE KIETZMAN, Cameroon
INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE, Austria
L'OFFICE DJIBOUTIEN DE DEVELOPPEMENT D'ENERGIE GEOTHERMIQUE, Djibouti
Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P., Portugal
LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT, Finland
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, Uganda
MEDEE MAITRISE ENERGETIQUE DES ENTRAINEMENTS ELECTRIQUES, France
MINISTERE DE L'EDUCATION NATIONALE, DE LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE, DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Morocco
MINISTERE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Algeria
MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, Cameroon
MOI UNIVERSITY, Kenya
NANOE, France
NANOE MADAGASCAR, Madagascar
NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, South Africa
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO, Netherlands
NEXA - AGENCE REGIONALE DE DEVELOPPEMENT D'INVESTISSEMENT ET D'INNOVATION, France
NORCE NORWEGIAN RESEARCH CENTRE AS, Norway
Odit-e, France
ONG SONGHAI, Benin
OSTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFORDERUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH, Austria
POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Italy
REINER LEMOINE INSTITUT GGMBH, Germany
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION & RENEWABLE ENERGY CORPORATION, Kenya
SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING POWER CONSULTANTS LIMITED, Kenya
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA, Italy
SOCIETE NATIONALE D ELECTRICITE DU BURKINA FASO, Burkina Faso
STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY, Kenya
SUOMEN AKATEMIA, Finland
TFE AFRICA (PTY) LTD, South Africa
THE NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING & SPACE SCIENCES, Egypt
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii, Romania
UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, United Kingdom
UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA, Spain
UNIVERSIDADE EDUARDO MONDLANE, Mozambique
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE, Italy
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO, Italy
UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
UNIVERSITE D'ABOMEY-CALAVI, Benin
UNIVERSITE DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE, France
UNIVERSITE DE LOME, Togo
UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, France
UNIVERSITE DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE, France
UNIVERSITE PANAFRICAINE INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L'EAU ET DE L'ENERGIE, Algeria
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT, Netherlands
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, South Africa
UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, Kenya
UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA, Rwanda
UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA, Zambia
VAASAN YLIOPISTO, Finland
ZENTRUM FUR SOZIALE INNOVATION GMBH, Austria

Start date: 1 October 2020
End date: 31 December 2025
Project cost: € 32 550 922,44
Project funding: € 14 952 219
Unipi quota: € 87 000
Call title: H2020-LC-SC3-2020-Joint-Actions-1
Unipi role: Partner

Website: https://www.leap-re.eu/