CIC energiGUNE obtains funding for three disruptive proposals
The Basque centre has received approval from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities to develop two individual projects focused on electrothermal storage and the development of lithium-sulphur batteries, as well as a coordinated project with the University of the Basque Country (EHU) and the DPIC-Donostia International Physics Centre that aims to transform CO2 and nitrates into high added-value products.
CIC energiGUNE, a leading Basque research centre in electrochemical energy storage and conversion and thermal energy storage and conversion, has obtained approval from the State Research Agency for three of its projects to receive funding from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities’ ‘Knowledge Generation Projects 2025’ call for proposals. Two of the projects are individual, with CIC energiGUNE as the sole implementing entity, while the third is a project coordinated by the Basque centre in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (EHU) and the DPIC-Donostia International Physics Centre.
‘Once again, we have achieved a very high success rate in the AEI’s call for proposals for this programme, which highlights the innovative capacity of our team,’ said Iratxe Gonçalves, head of public funding at CIC energiGUNE.
‘Furthermore, these are projects with a remarkably disruptive vision, which could have a decisive impact in critical areas such as the decarbonisation of industrial heat, the recovery of greenhouse gases and pollutants present in water streams, or the development of a new battery technology as an alternative to lithium-ion,’ he said.
