The European Research Area (ERA-NET) supports the coordination of national and regional funding programmes in Europe. National and regional authorities select programmes that will receive research grants; funding is then coordinated with other countries and the programmes are opened up to transnational research projects.
Based on this guiding principle, the ERA-NET instrument was developed as part of the EU’s Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes and has been given greater significance in the current Horizon 2020 programme, so that it will continue to facilitate cross-border cooperation on research and technology.
This project has received funding in the framework of the joint programming initiative "ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems" focus initiative "Integrated Regional Energy Systems" with support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 775970.
