Sophia provides European researchers with the opportunity to develop their own research projects through the Transnational Access (TNA) to the Sophia consortium’s Research Infrastructures (RI) – free-of-charge, supported by the European Commission.
In the project COTEVOS (Concepts, Capacities and Methods for Testing EV systems and their interoperability within smart grids), the interoperability of Electric Vehicles and their smart charging will be assessed in several laboratories below according to the new test procedures developed in COTEVOS.
Within the University of Cyprus, FOSS is the center of excellence focusing on renewable energy sources (RES) and in particular solar energy, energy efficiency and smart electricity grid. The centre is currently equipped with a state-of-the-art facility for monitoring and evaluation of PV technologies and Advanced Metering Infrastructure and is currently progressing with further installations for completing a large microgrid covering the energy needs of the University. This will transform the University campus to one of the few green campuses in Europe.
The European Liaison on Electricity Committed Towards long-term Research Activities for Smart Grids Integrated Research Programme on Smart Grids (ELECTRA) brings together the partners of the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids (JP SG) to reinforce and accelerate Europe´s medium to long term research cooperation in this area and to drive a closer integration of the research programmes of the participating organisations and of the related national programmes. Powerful European Research Infrastructure is necessary to reach consensus on harmonized solutions that allow collaboration on the technical level and thereby accelerate the development and implementation of smart grids. ELECTRA aims at fostering the coordination and collaboration among the research infrastructures of the IRP participants.
ELECTRA has received funding from the European Union´s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No.: 609687.
