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/