PARTNERS

EI-JKU will coordinate S-PARCS and carry out WP leadership in WP1 and WP7. EI-JKU will take all steps for the financial and administrative coordination of the project and frequently control for the timing and the quality of the output. Since S-PARCS is a Coordination and Support Action, interaction with stakeholders from industry, policy makers, regional and federal governments is key for the project success and EI-JKU has significant experience in establishing such links and foster respective cooperation. As examples, EI-JKU has organised high level workshops on the premises of the European Commission (DG Home, 2013) and the European Parliament (2016) to discuss the output of FP7 projects with the responsible politicians.As the leader of WP1 EI-JKU, together with all other S-PARCS partner identifies innovative solutions with regard to energy cooperation and joint energy services in industrial parks and determines existing barriers and opportunities towards these solutions as faced by industrial parks today. EI-JKU will also be responsible for the coordination of the Austrian Lighthouse Parks in WP5 and will support Task Manager EHOO. Most importantly, EI-JKU will identify the best options to turn S-PARCS into a lasting success story of establishing a new energy efficiency culture in industrial parks.

Dr Johannes Reichlis is a project manager at the Energy Institute. His research is focused on the development of energy efficiency measures and a quantification of the thereby realised energy savings, and methodologies for impact assessment of technology shifts and natural disasters. He has participated in several research projects concerning energy topics and was the project coordinator of national research projects such as “Blackouts in Austria –1 and 2”, is vice-coordinator of the FP7 project SESAME and the Legal, Ethical,Privacy and Policy Issues (LEPPI) Officer in the FP 7 project SPARKS. He is the chief developer of the software package www.blackout-simulator.com.

Dr. Andrea Kollmann: Since her graduation in economics in 2004 Andrea Kollmann has worked at the Energy Institute as a scientific researcher. After earning her doctorate in energy economics in 2008 with a thesis about regional macroeconomic modelling and the economics of building renovation, she has concentrated on her tasks as a project leader in several large scale research projects in Austria that deal with energy efficiency and new technologies to promote the “smart grid”.

Dr. Simon Moserstudied: economic sciences with focus on economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He specialised on finance, environmental economy, international macroeconomics and industrial economics. Simon Moser graduated in March 2009. From December 2008, Simon Moser was working as assistant at the Energy Institute at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. While becoming junior researcher at the Energy Institute at the JKU Linz he was also employed at the Institute for Environmental Management in Companies and Regions until 2012. Simon Moserdissertated on the topic of supplier obligations and finished his doctoral studies in December 2012. His fields of work include customer behaviour and integration, smart grids, and energy efficiency. In 2015, Simon Moser finished his second field of study(social economics).

• Software development: EI-JKU has developed a Blackout Simulator (available online http://www.blackout-simulator.com/) in the FP7project SESAME (see below).
• Kollmann, A., Reichl, J. (2012) Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Strategies in the Context of the European Energy Service Directive: A Case Study for Austria. In: Z. Morvaj [Ed.] Energy Efficiency -A Bridge to Low Carbon Economy, Chapter 3, InTech, March, 2012.
•  Reichl, J., Kollmann, A. (2009) Strategic Homogenisation of Energy Efficiency Measures: An Approach to Improve the Efficiency and Reduce the Costs of the Quantification of Energy Savings. Energy Efficiency,: 189–201.
• Moser, S. (2013) Poor energy poor: Energy saving obligations, distributional effects, and the malfunction of the priority group. Energy Policy, 61: S.1003.
•  Moser S., Leutgöb K., Reichl J., Kollmann A. (2012) Making the results of bottom-up energy savings calculations comparable. Thermal Science Volume 16, Issue 3: 687-702.

Renewables4Industry (FFG Nr. 858974)
As the second pillar of fossil decarbonisation, EI-JKU developed an unprecedented roadmap for the intensified use of carbon-neutral energy sources in industrial branches. App. 70 experts participated in the workshops and created a holistic vision for renewables in industry, envisaging a share of more than 80% of the energy coming from carbon-neutral sources, but recognizing the need for parallel improvements in primary energy efficiency.

Open Heat Grid (FFG Nr. 845161)

Legal, regulatory, economic and organizational issues of using industrial waste heat in district heating networks. Working together with OMV and Voestalpine, Austria’s biggest and most energy intensive companies, the consortium elaborated methods helping to define the actual value of industrial waste heat, taking into account investment costs (e.g. economies of scale), technical requirements (temperature), regulatory barriers, and organizational hindrances (information asymmetries).

R&D Roadmap: Energy Efficiency in energy-intensive Industries funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Funds (FFG Nr. 843864)

An outstanding roadmap on the R&D requirements helping to increase energy efficiency in the energy-intensive industries. More than 40 representatives of industry and other stakeholders built a strong vision on industrial energy efficiency in 2050, envisaging innovative breakthrough technologies, cascaded use of energy and resources and a circular economy. New processes and waste heat recovery, increasing primary energy efficiency, are objected to be common in 2050.

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technologies, cas be common in 2050

STORE&GO (GA Nr. 691797)

Horizon 2020 project, developing innovative large-scale energy storage technologies and Power-to-Gas concepts after optimization. EI-JKU will predominantly work on the analysis of social and public acceptance of power-to-gas plants/systems within the European Union, on policy recommendations for Power-to-Gas systems primary focused on SNG production and on the analysis on techno-economical optimization options –learning curves, economics of scale, new technologies/materials, alternative plant structures.

SESAME (FP7-contract Nr. 261696)

Threats for the supply of electricity have changed dramatically throughout the last decade: additional to the natural and accidental ones, the new threat of malicious attacks needs to be considered. Such attacks might be jointly imparted so as to affect large portions of the European grid, make repair difficult and cause huge societal impact. The outstanding importance and the far more complex level of interconnectivity of electricity distribution / transmission / generation compared to the supply through other energy carriers -makes the development of a highly focused toolkit for its protection an essential and urgent task the last decade: additional

to the natu.

Open Heat Grid (FFG Nr. 84516 information asymmetries).

nces (information asymmetries).

Project management and accounting software:

project management and cost adequacy is ensured by the time and budget accounting systems of EI-JKU.

Management capacities:

The project coordinator of S-PARCS was vice coordinator of SESAME and the Legal, Ethical, Privacy and Policy Issues (LEPPI) Officer in the FP7 project SPARKS. In addition the entire staff of EI-JKU collaborating in the S-PARCS project management has proven project lead expertise from successfully administered energy projects on the national and European level.

Lifecycle software:

EI-JKU is holding active licences of up-to-date lifecycle software GaBi® ts 6.5 and associated databases with over 10,000 environmental profiles of processes and materials. Moreover, the involved experts use the LCA platform http://www.openlca.org/ with a potential access to more than 90,000 LCA datasets from leading LCA data providers such as Think step (GaBi databases), the ecoinvent Centre (ecoinvent) or the research Centre of the European Commission (ELCD).

The main role of Bizkaia Sortaldeko Industrialdeak in the S-PARC project is to develop proposals for joint energy services with the companies located in the two parks and to transfer the results of the project to the rest of the 42 industrial areas managed by SPRILUR. BSI will lead the task 5.2.

Xabier Ormaetxea Garai holds a University Degree of Law at University of Deusto (Spain), where he also finished a doctoral Course in Law. He holds a Master’s Degree in History from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) (Spain). In 2014, he was named General Manager of the public companies managing three industrial parks in the Basque Country: Arratiako Industrialdea SA (which he also managed from 2005 to 2011), Bizkaiko Sortaldeko Industriadea SA and Busturialdeko Industrialdea SA. He is also the chief executive officer of the company Ibarzaharra S.A. (industrial areas promotion and managing). From 2011 to 2013 he was the Counselor of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Spain and from 1988 to 2005 he was Member of the Basque Parliament (5 legislatures), three legislatures as chairman of the Committee on Industry and Agriculture, one legislature as chairman of the Committee for European and External Affairs, two legislatures as Deputy Speaker and Parliamentary Group Coordinator and two legislatures as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the “Information Society”. Previously he was for ten years the Managing Director of Igorreko Industrialdea SA (public company managing the Igorre Industrial Park) and one year adviser of Department of Economic Development of the Government of Bizkaia. Besides, he is the president and founder of the Ekialde Foundation, which principal activity is cooperation with Ukraine.

Pablo Ignacio ZABALA is currently the Head of Business Development of Industrialdeak in Biscay (one of the provinces in the Basque Country). Industrialdeak are the industrial sites in which SPRILUR (publicly owned company) holds a majority shareholding. He has been also the manager of two industrial parks. He holds a Master on Business Administration and a B.Sc in Law from the Deusto University. Previously he was Head of Human Resources in various renowned companies working mainly on the ship-building industry, but also in the health and food industry. Spanish is his mother tongue, and he has very good French skills.

MITKE
“Managing the Industrial Territories in the Knowledge Era”. Project Status: Finalized (2008 – 2011, Interreg). SPRILUR led the project.

COPIT

“Cooperation between Industrial and Technological Parks”, www.copit.es, www.poligonoscepe.org/copit. Bizkaia Sortaldeko Industrial is participating in the COPIT Programme, promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. Its objective is to boost cooperation between companies located in industrial and technology parks to promote interaction, identification and exploitation of new business opportunities, technology transfer, R&D project development and internationalization.

Other projects

Other projects carried out within the industrial Parks in relation with sustainability and advanced resource efficiency are the setup of an Eko-scan certificate in all the industrial areas of our group, the replacement of traditional lamps by new LED/low consumption during 2014-2015, and the study of reuse of industrial wastes.

Two photovoltaic plants of 100 kW each are installed on the roof of the office building.

On the scope of its mission, ADRAL “Delivers actions” to promote the regional development of Alentejo and strengthen its economic and productive base in co-operation with other agents and entities in the region, and the ones within European Union, which have a similar purpose, as is stated by the Portuguese Decree of Law 88/99, which regulates Regional Development Agencies statutes. On this basis, there has always been a strict and fruitful cooperation between ADRAL and Vendas Novas Industrial Park, which will be further elaborated in WP5 of S-PARCS.

Eng. Rui Barroso: Currently, Rui is the Executive Director at ADRAL and holds a number of positions, relevant for S-PARCS: he is the Coordinator of the Center for Digital Technologies at CIMAC – Alentejo Central Association of Municipalities, responsible for designing and coordinating ICT and Innovation projects; Member of Executive Committee the Board of Directors at EURADA, European Association of Regional Development Agencies; Member of CCDR (Agency for Regional Coordination) Alentejo Regional Council; Member of the Advisory Committee of the A2020 as representative of ADRAL and ANADER; Member of the Permanent Commission of the Regional System of Technology Transfer of Alentejo; Member of the Strategic Councils of CIMAC, CIMBAL, CIMAA and CIMAL; the representative of ADRAL at the Assembly of the Science and Technology Park of Alentejo; the Representative of ADRAL in the Regional System of Technology Transfer, whose team dynamises its activities. He holds a degree in Computer and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, and participates in structuring projects for the development and promotion of the Alentejo region. Rui participates annually in national and European conferences in the field of innovation, information and energy technologies, as guest speaker of the Government of Portugal, European Commission in Europe and China, APDC, IDC, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, EEEF / DB, Government of Croatia, EURADA. Since 2008 he has had professional experience in the area of development of information technology projects, in companies such as Novabase, Altitude Software in the global services units through Portugal, London, São Paulo. He participated in software projects in the Banking sector in Portugal and the launch of the first generation of online banking in Portugal. Entrepreneur with two business initiatives, ÉTER.COM Lda in Évora and Graycell Lda in Lisbon, both dedicated to the services of information technologies and software development.

Daniel Janeiro: Graduated in Business Administration, has been an employee of ADRAL since March 2011, when he started as a SME support technician in the South Alentejo’s Branch of ADRAL. Between August of 2013 and January of 2014 accumulated functions of coordination of the Pole of the South Alentejo’s Branch of ADRAL. In February 2014, he joined the ADRAL SME support team in Évora. In June 2014, assumed responsibility for the operational management of ÉvoraTech – Évora Technology Based Incubator. The following competences stand out: Techniques to support SME’s; Consulting; Elaboration of feasibility studies; Preparation of applications for grants; Management of contents of Business Portal; Management of corporate databases; Support for regional economic development; General management of national and international projects and networks; Preparation of payment claims on national and international platforms; Support for the organization of seminars, workshops and colloquia on regional development themes; Territorial Marketing. Since the beginning of 2017 is a board advisor, being responsible for the national and international projects which belong to ADRAL’s Board.

Energia2020 in Alentejo Central

Define and implement an integrated strategy for the development of energy efficiency in Alentejo Central divided into 4 specific areas: Efficiency Public Lighting, Efficiency Buildings, Renewable Energy Production, Transport. It is essential for regions to prepare for energy-related challenges, including climate change, increased external dependence and affordable access to all citizens.

Starnet Alentejo

To develop a collaborative network between interface organizations, public and private, entrepreneurs and reference personalities of Alentejo, supported in videoconference mechanisms and collaborative platforms – Alentejo @ Colab. Strengthen the relationship with the European Commission and its stakeholders to prepare initiatives under the Community support framework 14-20.

Fablab (Centro IDEA)

Fablab ÉvoraTech is part of the Centro IDEA – an activity focused on the area of Innovation, knowledge transfer and the promotion of technology-based business initiatives, within the scope of ADRAL’s activities and Development of European and national innovation projects and the promotion of entrepreneurship and the diversification of the economic and productive base. Thus, it was given the format of an application for a set of activities complementary to each other and that allow to generate entrepreneurial dynamics in its target audience. Given the characteristics of the activities proposed and the results and impacts that are intended to be achieved, the network format has assumed the most appropriate, both in terms of the methodology of action and of the partners of the project itself. This network is based on the skills and experience of a diverse set of beneficiaries and non-implementing partners, who contribute to the implementation of the project and ensure its future sustainability. CENTRO IDEA application was made under the framework of the Alentejo Regional Operational Programme (INALENTEJO) 2007-2013

Ennshafen GmbH is the site agency of the Enns harbour industrial park. Its task is to gather and provide the technical, economic, organizational and legal solutions for barriers in the industrial park that hinder joint energy procurement and joint energy usage. On the other hand, Ennshafen GmbH will spread the information and knowledge produced in S-PARCS to the companies in the industrial park.

DI Dr. Werner Auer: has written his dissertation in Chemical engineering, sine 2014 is employed as the General Manager of Ennshafen port (Ennshafen OÖ GmbH), is responsible for inland port facilities and settlement of companies.

Karin Voglsam: has received her education in Business Management, joined Ennshafen in 2008 and is currently responsible for Marketing activities, including cooperation in EU projects such as NELI – Cooperation-Network for logistics and nautical education focusing on Inland Waterway Transport in the Danube corridor supported by innovative solutions, DaHar – Danube Harbour Development, HINT – Harmonized Inland Navigation Transport through education and information technology, DAPhNE – Danube Ports development.

• Software development: EI-JKU has developed a Blackout Simulator (available online http://www.blackout-simulator.com/) in the FP7project SESAME (see below).
• Kollmann, A., Reichl, J. (2012) Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Strategies in the Context of the European Energy Service Directive: A Case Study for Austria. In: Z. Morvaj [Ed.] Energy Efficiency -A Bridge to Low Carbon Economy, Chapter 3, InTech, March, 2012.
•  Reichl, J., Kollmann, A. (2009) Strategic Homogenisation of Energy Efficiency Measures: An Approach to Improve the Efficiency and Reduce the Costs of the Quantification of Energy Savings. Energy Efficiency,: 189–201.
• Moser, S. (2013) Poor energy poor: Energy saving obligations, distributional effects, and the malfunction of the priority group. Energy Policy, 61: S.1003.
•  Moser S., Leutgöb K., Reichl J., Kollmann A. (2012) Making the results of bottom-up energy savings calculations comparable. Thermal Science Volume 16, Issue 3: 687-702.

Ennshafen GmbH is the site agency of the Enns harbour industrial park, i.e. it’s a networking and service company. Necessary infrastructure like computers, meeting rooms etc. are already available

CUOIODEPUR’s main involvement is in WP5, in addition they will strongly support the S-PARCS partner in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP6 with their experiences in industrial energy cooperation and the provision of energy services.

Francesco Spennati: Position: Research and development coordinator

Francesco is an environmental engineer and PhD specialized in the study of fungal biomass and their application in bioreactors for the degradation of recalcitrant compounds of tanning effluents. He is the author / co-author of 9 articles published in scientific journals. He coordinates the research and development projects of Cuoiodepur.

Gualtiero Mori: Position: WWTP Director

Graduated in biological sciences at the University of Pisa in 1995. In 1999 Ph.D. degree in protystology by discussing a thesis on ethobiomonitoring. In 2000 he received a Master’s degree in “Management and Environment control” at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa. Since 2001 he has been a part of WWTP Cuoiodepur as processes assistant and researcher, then since January 2011 as a process manager and coordinator of staff and laboratory. Currently engaged in the following research projects: Project manager of the life project ENV / IT / 0075 BIOSUR: rotating bioreactors for sustainable hydrogen sulphide removal. Technical Manager of the POR CREO 2007 – 2013 Project M.E.TA. Matter and Energy from TAnnery Sludge. Scientific Responsible of the project POR CREO 2014 – 2020 LIGHTAN: Light Tannery.

Andrea Ricotti: Position: Researcher

Graduated in 2014 in Environmental Engineering at University of Florence, he started to work at WWTP plant in 2016 as researcher and technical coordinator of the research activities conducted at the joint university-industry laboratory of Cuoiodepur called CER2CO. Technical manager of the ongoing project called LIGHTAN: New material recovery system and waste water treatment for a better sustainability of the tannery industries.

Francesca Alati: Position: Administrative employee

Responsible for the administrative and accounting department of the technical department. Accounting management. Billing management. Keeping social books. Bureaucracy management. Support for the workers in charge of the technical area.

Sandro Succi: Position: Electro-instrumental Manager

He’s responsible for the functionality of the electrical systems and the operating logic of the plants.Electrical laboratory management, maintenance of electrical systems, instrumentation control and automation.

Moreno Tonelli: Position: Responsible for data processing center

Guarantees the operation of company information systems. Management of supply demand requests. Management of the IT system at the control of the local server for data management and processing. Management of local network issues (communication lines, workstations, activation of maintenance facilities). Support for users. Elaboration of user control and monitoring programs.

Vincenzo Menichetti: Position: Technical employee

Responsible for user control and related services. Skilled maintenance worker. Takes part in ordinary and extraordinary maintenance events. Management of logistics of plants, equipment and instrumentation.

• Giordano C., Boscaro V., Munz G., Mori G., Vannini C., Summer Holidays as break-point in shaping a tannery sludge microbial community around a stable core microbiota; Scientific Reports 6:30376 – July 2016
• Mannucci A., Munz G., Mori G., Oleszkiewicz J.A., Modelling bioaugmentation with nitrifiers in membrane bioreactors; Water Science and Technology 71(1): 15-21 January 2015
• Mannucci A., Munz G., Mori G., Makinia J., Lubello C. and Oleszkiewicz J.A., Modelling bioaugumentation with nitrifiers in membrane bioreactors; Water Science and Technology, in press, on line November 2014; DOI: 10.2166/wst.2014.456.
• Mannucci A., Munz G., Mori G., Lubello C., Oleszkiewicz J.A., Applicability of the Arrhenius model for ammonia oxidizing bacteria subjected to temperature time gradients, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, August 2014; DOI: 10.1007/s11783-014-0751-0.
• Chiellini C., Munz G., Petroni G., Lubello C., Mori G., Verni F., Vannini C., Characterization and comparison of bacterial communities selected in conventional activated sludge and membrane bioreactor pilot plants: a focus on Nitrospira and Planctomycetes bacterial Phyla, Current Microbiology, Volume 67, Issue 1, pp 77-90, February 2013.

TIOS: Tecnologie Innovative per l’Ossidazione biologica dei Solfuri. 2005 – 2006

BACON: Ingegnerizzazione di Biotecnologie Ambientali per il COntrollo dei Nutrienti nelleacque reflue civili e industriali. POR. CREO FSE 2009-2011

META: Matter and Energy from Tannery sludge. POR CREO FSE 2011 – 2014

BIOSUR: rotating BIOreactors for sustainable hydrogen SUlphide Removal (BIOSUR). Project LIFE+ (ENV/IT/075). July 2012 – December 2015 

LIGHTAN: LIGHT TANnnery, Nuovi sistemi di recupero risorse e depurazione/trattamento reflui. POR CREO FESR July 2015 – December 2017

SESAME (FP7

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Open Heat Grid (FFG Nr. 845161)

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ne, Austria’s biggest and most energy intensive

companies, the consortium elaborated methods helping to define the actual value of industrial waste

heat, taking into account investment costs (e.g. economies of scale), technical requirements

(temperature),

regulatory barriers, and organizational hindrances (information asymmetries).

Open Heat Grid (FFG Nr. 845161)

Legal, regulatory, economic and organizational issues of using industrial waste heat in district heating

networks. Working together with OMV and Voestalpi

ne, Austria’s biggest and most energy intensive

companies, the consortium elaborated methods helping to define the actual value of industrial waste

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(temperature),

regulatory barriers, and organizational hindrances (information asymmetries).

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(temperature),

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nces (information asymmetries).

CUOIO-DEPUR is responsible for the waste water treatment plant and its annexes in the park Ponte a Egola and also runs the CER2CO lab (joint research laboratory).

Borealis is the main company in the industrial park and the site’s utility management company. Its task is to gather and provide the technical, economic, organizational and legal barriers in the industrial park that hinder joint energy procurement and joint energy usage. On the other hand, Borealis will use and spread the information and knowledge produced in S-PARCS to the companies in the industrial park in order to further improve efficiency and functioning of the utility management.

Dr. Haralabos Poultidis: studied natural sciences with focus on chemistry / petrology and geology at the University of Vienna. In 1981, he completed his doctorate (University of Vienna). After 5 years of research at the University of Vienna he joined the Chemistry Park in Linz, where he was involved in various tasks (production, purchasing, controlling, finance department, pipeline energy and raw material procurement, environment and energy). Currently responsible for energy management for the Borealis sites in Austria, Germany and Italy.

Ing. Erroll Richtsfeld, MSc: after training as a civil engineer and 10 years of professional practice at a civilian office with the main focus on environmental consulting for commercial and industrial trades, changed to Borealis Agrolinz Melamine GmbH, which is the leading company at the Chemistry Park Linz. In addition, Erroll Richtsfeld completed the Facility Management Program in 2009. In his role as Facility Manager, the real estate as well as the technical and infrastructural management are in the main focus. A further focus is on the energy management tasks for Borealis Agrolinz, which is the producer and distributor of utilities for all the companies at the chemical park.

Borealis is responsible for utility management at Chemiepark Linz industrial park. There is extensive monitoring of utility provision, transport and consumption. Sensors provide data to a real-time monitoring system. Utilities include three steam pipeline systems at different temperature and pressure levels and some non-energy utilities. Due to regulatory and economic issues (which will be highlighted in S-PARCS) joint procurement and management of electricity and gas is not feasible.

The main task attributed to AFV will consist of sharing their experience with joint contracting of energy within the project and organising the Capacity building activities in Task 6.4.

Matxalen LASECA, has a Degree in Administration and Finance. She joined AFV in 2011. She is the responsible of administration, accounting and financial issues of the company. She has experience in the accounting and management of different European projects as well as in national calls.

Marcial ALZAGA OCHOTECO. Industrial Engineer. He joins AFV in 1995. He is the chief technical officer of the AFV. His experience is based on the management of the different programmes the AFV has developed: training, environment, quality, Research and Development (R&D), etc. He is Evaluator according to the EFQM (Quality Model). He has managed andparticipated in different European programs such as: DIOFUR (6PM), FOUNDRYTILE (LIFE program), MAGISTER (Lifelong learning program), FOUNDENERGY (FP7)… He has experience in management of continuing training schemes, funded by Hobetuz (Basque Foundation for Continuing Education) and the Tripartite Foundation for Training in Employment. He has leaded the joint management in the purchase of electricity in the spanish foundry sector. With this work foundries have obtained more economic prices, in appropriated quality conditions, by means of contracts. He participates in governing bodies of different entities.

Maite RODRIGUEZ GUTIERREZ graduated in Chemistry; she also attended a Foundry intensive course (1000 hours). This course is a very specialized course about Foundry Industry, taught by the Research Center IK4 Azterlan and highly valued between the sector because of the broad technical knowledge of casting all the students get. She joined AFV in 1997. She is the responsible in the Association for the areas of Quality and Environment. She is Evaluator according to the EFQM (Quality Model). She works on all the environmental and standardization issues, such as: Cristaline Respirable Silica affecting foundries, Formaldehyde, scrap waste management… She has worked in many European projects such as DIOFUR (6PM), EDECOM (Leonardo Da Vinci) and she is actually involved in FOUNDRYTILE (LIFE program), FOUNDENERGY (FP7) and NIWE (FP7) and national projects.

Oroitz UNZAIN VILLEGAS. He joined AFV in 2013, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and is a Master in Business Management from an Innovation and Internationalization Perspective. He actively takes part in all the European programs in which AFV is involved. He has participated in FOUNDENERGY (FP7) and he is still taking part in FOUNDRYTILE (LIFE program) and NIWE (FP7). He is involved in dissemination issues of the association as well as on statistics and sector data.

Leire ERRASTI ELORDI. Graduated in Labour Relations from the University of The Basque Country. She is since 2001 the responsible for Training and Education of AFV and has experience managing all types of training programs. She has experience in management of continuing training schemes, funded by Hobetuz (Basque Foundation for Continuing Education) and the Tripartite Foundation for Training in Employment, in which more than 300 training actions were managed, more than 16,500 training hours for a group of more than 3,500 workers. Management in the development of Diagnostics of Training Needs of the Basque Foundry Sector, funded by Hobetuz. Management in the development of different actions, such as: Complementary Action and Accompaniment to Training called “Comparative Study on Access To the continuous training of the different professional categories of the subsector foundries of the Basque Autonomous Community”.

FOUNDENERGY, waste heat recovery power generation base on orc technology in foundry industry (fp7-sme-2011-2-285954-foundenergy)

NIWE, new induction wireless manufacturing efficient process for energy (fp7-energy-2011-2- 296024 niwe)

FOUNDRYTILE, valorization of iron foundry sands and dust in ceramic tile production processlife14 env/es/000252

E-decom– learning system based on the ntic for the development of the workers’ key competences. Es/08/llp-ldv/toi/149051

MAGISTER, transfer of experience and knowledge in the familiar SME. 2010-1-es1-leo05-20954

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DAPP will be WP4 leader, exploiting its previous experience in both EU research projects and industrial energy audits for the definition of a joint monitoring and evaluation framework also considering legislative aspects. Furthermore DAPP will share its knowledge in terms of energy efficiency measures and RES integration in industrial and manufacturing contexts.

Francesco Peccianti graduated in Mechanical Engineering (“Energy & Aeronautics” curriculum) at the University of Genoa. His work of thesis was carried out during a 6 months internship at “Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse” research center (FRA) and it was focused on a CFD project about icing in the aeronautics field. He worked at “Ansaldo Energia” as Manufacturer Master Planner gaining expertise on the analysis of factory’s workload and planning of the activities. He joined Rina Consulting Research & Innovation division as project manager, being involved in technical activities in the framework of European Projects with a focus on energy topics both in the industrial and non-industrial environment: energy efficiency, renewable energy sources (RES) integration, smart grids and electric vehicles.

Silvia Vela is a Civil and Environmental Engineer graduated at Genoa University. In her academic background, along with courses about structures and infrastructures design, she focused on sustainability, climate change and resilience topics. She has carried out an internship in RINA Consulting aimed at finalizing her master thesis, in which she performed a quantitative risk analysis considering different natural hazards and developed possible adaptation and mitigation strategies for the studied asset as well. Currently, she works in the Environment and Climate Change Business Unit of RINA Consulting, where she is dedicated to performing energy and GHG assessments and renewable energy feasibility studies and to providing technical support for local and international projects in the field of energy and resource efficiency, climate change, risk assessment, action plans development, sustainable development. 

CELSIUS (FP7 – 314441 – ON GOING):

The CELSIUS City Consortium has deployed 12 new technically and economically innovative demonstrators. Another up to 20 state-of-art demonstrators (already in operation) proved the CELSIUS City Concept covering the full FP7 8.8.2 requirements. CELSIUS has a clear strategy and a pro-active approach to Market Outreach, which will strive to commit 50 new cities to the CELSIUS Roadmap by the end of 2016. When fully implemented, this les to 20-45 The reduction in the use of primary energy p.a. CELSIUS City is well positioned to deliver those targets due a strong partnership of major front running European cities and their respective utilities, and further outstanding innovative organizations, with track records both in creating technically and economically innovative demonstrators, as well as in understanding and overcoming the barriers for large scale deployment (e.g. Imperial College (UK), SP (S), TU Delft (NL), Cologne University of Applied Sciences (D), RINA-C (IT), LSE (UK)). CELSIUS has eight work packages targeting on the successful deployment of the 13 new demonstrators (WP3), supported by a collaborative approach to harvest beyond state-of-the-art insights from Tech & Innovation (WP5) and Stakeholder Acceptance (WP6). The local demonstrator perspective is enriched by the Integration & Roadmap (WP2). The final goal for Communication & Market Outreach (WP8) is based on developing the CELSIUS in the Market Uptake (WP7). A powerful project management office (WP1), seconded by rigor monitoring (WP4), coordinates all work packages and assuring over the time of the CELSIUS Consortium, both impactful deployment and sustainable market outreach. DAPP explored in this project the potential of industrial waste heat exploitation for H&C application and its recovery in large natural gas infrastructure and substations for power production.

RESILIENT (FP7 – 314671 – TERMINATED):

Growing investments in distributed energy resources (DER) – renewable distributed energy generation combined with demand response, energy storage, plug-in electric vehicles and active management of distribution networks – will require new business and technology platforms to manage the increased level of diversity and complexity of global energy management. The increasing variability of both generation and loads will also require more sophisticated and decentralized decision making. The RESILIENT project aims to design, develop, install and assess the energy and environmental benefits of a new integrated concept of interconnectivity between buildings, DER, grids and other networks at a district level. The RESILIENT approach will combine different innovative technologies including smart ICT components, optimized energy generation and storage technologies, also for RES, integrated to provide real time accounts of energy demand and supply at a district level and assist in decisionmaking process. The project strategy relies on a comprehensive R&D and demonstration approach. The proposed integrated concept will be first modelled and simulated for different typologies of buildings and different climates and then installed, monitored and evaluated in three pilot projects (including residential and non-residential buildings) in the UK, Belgium and Italy. These demonstrators will be used to assess the energy and environmental benefits of the new integrated concept and also to validate models and technologies in order for the concept to be easily replicable throughout different climatic areas. The major impact from RESILIENT will be the development of a complete value chain where the annual primary energy demand of buildings collated at a district level is decreased by at least 20% compared to their expected energy performance summed on an individual building basis, this energy gain being associated with a decrease of more than 20% of the CO2 emission reference level. In this project RESILIENT developed and demonstrated advanced control strategies for smart polygenerative district in three demo sites around Europe. These schemes about DR and DSM energy management system could be easily replicated in industrial parks to reduce their energy bills.

PLANHEAT (H2020 – 723757 –ON GOING):

Public bodies face the lack of appropriate easy-to-use tools to support them in the definition, simulation and evaluation of suitable strategies for sustainable heating and cooling tailored to local conditions for achieving the ambitious targets set-up in their local plans. In light of this, PLANHEAT main objective is to develop and demonstrate an integrated and easy-to-use tool which will support local authorities (cities and regions) in selecting, simulating and comparing alternative low carbon and economically sustainable scenarios for heating and cooling that will include the integration of alternative supply solutions (from a panel of advanced key technologies for the new heating and cooling supply) that could balance the forecasted demand. The PLANHEAT integrated tool will be designed to support local authorities in

1) mapping the potential of locally available low carbon energy sources (with specific reference to available RES and waste energy recoverable at urban and industrial level)

2) mapping the forecasted demand for heating and cooling

3) define and simulate alternative environmentally friendly scenarios based on district heating and cooling as well as highly efficient cogeneration systems matching the forecasted demand, levering on the use of RES and waste energy sources and with proven economic viability

4) understanding the interactions of these new scenarios with the existing infrastructures and networks (among which district heating and cooling gas, electricity, sewage, transportation) and identify potential for further extension and upgrade of district heating and cooling networks

5) evaluate the benefits (in terms of energetic, economic and environmental KPIs) that the adoption of the new scenarios will generate against the current situation (i.e., baseline).

Moreover, sound training and replication strategies involving a number of other public authorities have been set-up towards the empowerment of the expected project impacts. The PLANHEAT tool mapping module will be also able to evaluate the potential of industrial waste heat for local H&C applications all around Europe proposing a new business stream for industries.

TECNALIA will be the leader of WP5 and will organise all inter- and intrapark activities. In addition, TECNALIA will work closely with project partners BSI an AFV. Also, TECNALIA will cooperate with the other S-PARCS partners in WP1, WP2, WP4, WP6 and WP7.

Daniela VELTE (Degree in Translation and Economics from the University of Heidelberg) has been working for TECNALIA since April 2006 and is part of POINT, Tecnalia´s expert group for Innovation and Technology Policies. She works with the Office of Technology Evaluation of the European Parliament (STOA) on energy technologies and is the coordinator of the EERA Joint Programme e3s “Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of Energy Policies and Technologies”. She is presently participating in a study on reindustrialization focussing on the European PV industry, a study on business opportunities related to Smart Grid Technologies and the H2020 project “ECHOES Energy CHOices supporting the Energy Union and the Set-Plan”. In 2013 /2014 she coordinated the road mapping work in the EUfinanced project CRM_InnoNet on the substitution of critical materials, which addressed some of the key energy technologies, such as electricity storage and electric drives. Between 2008 and 2010 she coordinated the ESPON Applied Research Project “ReRisk Regions at Risk of Energy Poverty”, and also led the work package on social acceptance within the European Foresight Network EFONET. Prior to joining Tecnalia, she has been a partner and senior researcher at Prospektiker European Institute for Futures Studies and Strategic Planning for 15 years. During this time she was in charge of managing most of the company’s European research projects, including “EurEnDel – Technology and Social Visions for Europe’s Energy Future”, “Eco-Service Development: Reinventing Supply and Demand in the European Union” and “Sustainable Consumer Services”, all of which have been published in a book form. She also conducted numerous studies for the Strategic Planning Department of the Spanish utility Iberdrola and managed the company’s strategic observatory during eight years. Between 2007 and 2012 she managed the Strategic Observatory of the Basque Environmental Agency Ihobe after having elaborated the Strategic Research Plan 2008 – 2010 for the Cluster of Environmental Companies, ACLIMA, also based in the Basque Country, Spain.

Mirari ZALDUA is project manager and researcher at TECNALIA’s horizontal expert group Policies for Innovation and Technology (POINT), having 15-years’ experience in innovation research. She is B.Sc. in Human Sciences by the Deusto University in 2000 and she also holds a postgraduate degree in Business Administration (Universidad de Deusto, Spain, 2001). In TECNALIA she is project manager and researcher in the area of innovation and technology research and policies, and has been involved in many projects dealing with innovation indicators, analysis of sectoral innovation, clustering, policy impact assessment, and more recently Key Enabling Technologies and Circular Economy. She participated in several FP7 and FP6 projects, as well as INTERREG IVC, INTERREG IIIB, MEID, ESPON and Leonardo da Vinci projects, but also service contracts with the EC. Most relevant recent projects she has been involved in include: FUTURING European Industry in the Circular Economy (H2020, 2016-2018), EU-GREAT – European guide and recommendations for the combined funding of large-scale RDI initiatives (H2020, 2015-2017), TR3S – Towards Smart Specialisation for Smart Growth Spirit (INTERREG IV, 2012-2014); EU-KNIGHTS – EU KETs supported innovative industry for high growth and sustainable globalization (FP7, 2013-2015); mKETs pilot lines action (EC contract, 2013-2015); RO-cKETs – Methodology, Work plan and roadmap for cross-cutting KETs activities in Horizon 2020 (EC contract, 2013-2014), MEID – Mediterranean eco-industrial Development (EC, MED Programme, 2011-2014), MITKE – Managing Industrial Territories in the Knowledge Era (EC, INTERREG IVC, 2088-2011).

Patxi HERNÁNDEZ is an Industrial Engineer specialized in Energy Technologies from the University of the Basque Country and holds a Ph.D. from University College Dublin in the field of life cycle energy performance evaluation. Since 2010 he works as a researcher in the Energy & Environmental Division at TECNALIA on a variety of projects related to selection & development of sustainability indicators, sustainability assessment, and life cycle analysis and environmental labelling of products and processes. He is also a registered verifier of Environmental Product Declarations with EPD International, and has worked on ecodesign and improving environmental performance of a variety of industries.

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EERA Joint Programme e3s: “Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of Energy Policies and Technologies”. Client: EERA European Energy Research Alliance. Ongoing since 2013

ECHOES: “Energy CHOices supporting the Energy Union and the Set-Plan”. Client: EC, H2020. Ongoing since 2016

PITAGORAS: Sustainable urban planning with innovate and low energy thermal and power generation from residual and renewable sources (FP7 2013-/2017)

MEID – “Mediterranean eco-industrial development”. Client: European Commission, MED Programme. 2011-2013

MITKE: “Managing industrial territories in the knowledge era”. Client: European Commission, H2020. 2008-2011

SESAME (FP7

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INGRID: New Experimental Infrastructure for Smart Grids. INGRID is a living and tailored infrastructure that is closely in contact with the industry and the global scientific community, providing support on applied research and the technological development of companies. INGRID is a singular international level laboratory, with a great experimental capacity in high-voltage and high-power. It focuses on experimenting equipment and components, smart grids, electric systems for renewable energy and smart management of the consumption of electric power.

CIRCE will be the leader of WP 3 Industrial Park Service Initial Assessment Tool, delivering the systemspecification, including energy demands and energy productions, within the algorithm, and outputs. Inaddition, CIRCE will work in WP5 with ADRAL in the development of cooperative energy efficient solutionsfor Parque Industrial de Vendas Novas (Portugal) and cooperate with other partners in WP1, WP2, WP6 andWP7.

Mr Francisco Barrio. Physicist at the University of Zaragoza. (Spain, 2003). In 2004, Healso successfully completed a Master Degree in EcoEfficiency, Energy Saving andIndustrial Ecology at the same University. He joined CIRCE in 2005 as a project managerand then became Director of the Energy Efficiency Area, and now he is Director of theSustainability and Energy Use Area, with over twenty employees. During his almost 10years of professional career, he worked and developed several energy efficiency projects atNational and International levels and new advanced postgraduated courses. The mostrelevant ones can be summarised as follow: (i) Postgraduate in Renewable Energy (2010),(ii) Postgraduate in Computational and Communications Tools for scientist (2003), (iii)Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (2003). All of them conferred at the University ofZaragoza. In addition, he also is Trainer of the Trainers in Energy Certification of Buildingsby IDAE, and he also holds the highest level certification for professionals in energymanagement since he successfully completed both programmes: the Certified EnergyManager (CEM), which is internationally recognised; and the “Train-the-trainer” as CEM trainer by the AEE (Association of Energy Engineers). AEE is the most representative association for energy professionals at international level which has more than 16.000 members at 89 different countries. He also got the title “Chief auditor in Energy Management Systems according to ISO 50001” which is certificated by the British Standard Institution, and is qualified to measure and verify energy efficiency tasks in organisations (IPMVP), and to perform internal audits on energy efficiency management systems in compliance with ISO 50001:2011 and ISO 19011:2002 requirements. He also is the responsible of the certification of “Building and Industry Energy Auditor”, which is the unique accredited by ENAC (National Accreditation Agency in Spain) in compliance with the Norm UNE/EN ISO 17024:2012. He is member of the Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certification board for AEN/CTN 216, working in three technical normalization committees (CTN ́s). He also has participated actively in an important number of energy efficiency projects applied in industrial, service and residential sectors. He is co-author of several international publications and has participated in several Horizon 2020, FP7 and IEE projects.

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