<< Objectives >>VR4Learning is a 24-month Project to engage Youth in new learning methods, with a high level of technology incorporation (virtual and augmented reality) with contents in the areas of environment and green transition towards a sustainable society in 2050.The Project will create videos for online courses, and use virtual and augmented reality for digital learning, including training sessions with 3D glasses which will enable learning at a distance in an immersive environment.<< Implementation >>The main activities of VR4Learning centres around the content creation to be used in Virtual Reality courses, focusing on the areas of environment and green transition towards a sustainable society in 2050. Virtual reality scenarios will be created for immersive learning. With these, webinars, workshops and short trainings will be organized to showcase the innovative learning environment proposed in VR4Learning. Lastly, the content created will be made available in the digital library.<< Results >>The main expected result of VR4Learning is enabling an immersive learning environment, made available to all, regardless of background. For instance, youths with reduced mobility or from disadvantaged backgrounds could attend lessons, events, and field visits remotely. This is achieved through the video contents being accessible to all via the digital library.

About 200 countries including EU members decided to increase the usage renewable energy sources to fight with the global warming in the Paris Agreement. EU Member States have agreed to ensure that 27% of the energy consumed by the EU is obtained from renewable sources till 2030. Besides The EU aims to reduce the greenhouse gases by 80 to 90% by 2050 compared to 1990. These decisions increase the consumption of renewable energy and together with this, the researches, knowledge, production, employment, qualifications and education systems are changing and growing. In parallel of EU energy and climate goals, PowerUp MyHouse project aims to increase the knowledge and awareness in general about solar energy applications and in particular about Photovoltaic Thermal (PV/T) technology which is one of the excited application since is able to produce hot water and electric at the same time with less load to the building structure. PV/T technology is known and used in high level in relatively well developed EU countries in renewable energy but it is in early steps in other EU countries and the developments show us that the technology will be used in wide level in close future and it must be at the end. The project aims to investigate the PV/T from all sides. The best technological applications, manufacturing, installation, measures, calculations, legislation, incentives, supports, qualifications, experiments and vocational education related with PV/T is the subject of the project. All these will be resulted in the project as;- PVT Technologies Research aims to present the latest researches done in and out of EU related with PV/T technologies. The examples, experiments, products, researches are the topic of this report.- Legal face of PV/T aims to present legal arrangements on PV/T done in well-developed countries such as legislation and incentives. - Guidebook: The project would like to test PV/T system on a sample building with different design and climate conditions for nearly one year. The experiment will strengthen the scientific knowledge in the subject and the results will be shared with the researchers, scientists, training institutions and labor market. - Learning module on PV/T is totally innovative for the vocational training students in renewable energy. The labor market is needed to have qualified staff which could respond the sectoral developments. The training module will increase the knowledge and skills of the vocational training students and their teachers. Another activities of the project are short-term joint staff trainings. The scientists, lecturers, teachers and trainers will come together in Sweden and Denmark and will get a training related with PV/T technology. The results of the activities will strengthen the quality and content of the outputs and besides, will increase the knowledge and skills on the subject. The project also aims to increase the awareness and knowledge about renewable energy and PV/T on public and stakeholders. In parallel of this aim; four multiplier events will be organized in Turkey, Lithuania and Portugal. The decision/ policy makers, labor market, NGOs, training organizations, universities and R&D departments will be invited to these events. The project aims to reach different target group in different levels; - Renewable energy students will have training module on PV/T and will develop their vocational skills and knowledge which will improve their employment rate and conditions. - Renewable energy teachers and trainers will improve their knowledge and skills on PV/T and will have a training module to use in their current training programmes. - Scientists/researchers' knowledge about PV/T will be increased. They will have more extended scientific knowledge about PV/T. They could do research and R&D works on the subject and to share with their equals in their presentations or/and publications. - Labor market/decision-policy makers-NGOs (organizations and people) will have much extended information about PV/T and will develop their current applications’ quality and content. The project will be realized by the collaboration of 5 universities from Turkey, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and Portugal, one NGO from Turkey, one SME from Sweden and one vocational technical high school from Turkey in two years. All results will be open to free usage of the target group and final consumers on the website of the projec

The SPECTRUM project aims to develop, validate and test an innovative solar concentrating collector that fully harness the solar spectrum by converting solar radiation into three renewable energy vectors (solar heat, solar electricity and green hydrogen) required by industrial sector, while performing industrial wastewater treatment. SPECTRUM will boost the sustainability of IWW treatment, converting waste into a valuable solar fuel, through an efficient photocatalytic remediation process coupled with H2 cogeneration. Matching the energy grade between the solar spectrum and the conversions, the system uses the UV for photocatalytic H2 production with synergistic degradation of pollutants, infrared for generating thermal energy and visible-near infrared light for PV electricity, allowing to achieve higher solar conversion efficiency. SPECTRUM concept will go beyond the current state of the art through i) the development of low cost, sustainable photocatalysts with focus on dual-functional photocatalysis processes, i.e H2 production and pollutants degradation, and considering the easy recovery and reuse of the catalysts and ii) development of spectral splitting solutions to separate IR part of the solar spectrum allowing the PV cells to be thermally decoupled from the thermal absorber, generating high-temperature heat without compromising the electrical efficiency. Integrate optical, thermal, and electrical subsystem of SPECTRUM hybrid solar collector will be design and developed aiming to reach an effective total management and distribution of the solar radiation. Two hybrid solar collector prototypes for low and medium temperature (SPECTRUM-LT and SPECTRUM-HT) will be constructed and tested under outdoor conditions. Techno-economic analysis using Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing, together with social impact analysis, will be used to validate the sustainability of the SPECTRUM approach in the economic, environmental and social domains.

The HEATWISE project aims to tackle various thermal management challenges in tertiary buildings with a significant IT load. The project has specific objectives to develop and validate (to TRL 4 and 5) its technological innovation in two interrelated aspects: for IT system equipment in facility rooms and for a complete building management level. The innovation toward achieving energy efficiency and thermal management optimization follows up on a detailed thermal need analysis framework and theoretical validation, and is fulfilled through four novel solutions: i) Hybrid future-proof cooling hardware solution for high-density data processing based on two-phase dielectric liquid cooling and air immersion ii) Digital twin-supported holistic high-density data processing management system with a smart workload orchestration system, iii) Integrated multi-objective building energy management system covering both IT equipment needs and human presence, and iv) Self-assessment tool for energy management needs in tertiary buildings with power-intensive IT systems. On top of that, the project will develop a knowledge-sharing platform to showcase potential improvement pathways in energy optimization of tertiary buildings and maximize the project's impact. The project consortium consists of 12 partners from 8 different countries across the EU and with a more global inclusion; including 3 universities, 3 research centers, 4 SMEs, 1 large company, and 1 national standardization body, making sure that all the required expertise for a successful accomplishment of the project and future exploitation exist, and the partners complement each other in the most optimal manner. The technologies will be demonstrated in different specific designs and integrations in a university, a supercomputing research centre, industrial and office buildings, in Denmark, Poland, Turkey, and Switzerland, with extended investigations for medical centres and hotels as impactful tertiary building categories.

This project aims to develop and validate (in the relevant environment to reach TRL 5) a novel thermochemically operating technology that can very efficiently, safely, cost-effectively, and sustainably provide waste heat recovery of industrial processes and upgrade them to much higher temperature levels (the target temperature will be 150-250 deg. C, here). The technology is a novel yet outstanding generation of heat transformers (Hydration Heat Transformer), outperforming any other competing technologies including various designs of high-temperature vapor compression heat pumps due to several reasons. That is, TechUPGRADE's solution i) may simply be integrated with any renewable technologies including solar thermal systems, ii) consumes almost no electricity, and presents significantly high energy and exergy efficiencies, iii) can be much more cost-effective than competing technologies due to expected long useful lifespan, the simplicity of the design and operation mechanism, and the way it integrates low-value heat sources, iv) may be employed for a variety of integration possibilities, low-temperature heat sources, and various heat sink temperature levels, and also, v) with simple adjustment, can offer the storage of the recovered waste or renewable heat if there is a mismatch between the heat source availability and the process heating demand. The project consortium consists of 14 partners from the four corners of the EU; including 5 universities, 3 research centers, 4 SMEs, 1 large company, and 1 partner with several industrial end-users, making sure that all the required expertise for a successful accomplishment of the project and future exploitation exist, and also the partners supplement each other in the most optimal manner. The technology will be demonstrated in different specific designs and integrations in two relevant environments in Sweden and Germany in 35 kW and 10 kW high-temperature heat delivery capacities.