CORDIS · 823620 · H2020
BestinclassSOFCs Enabling mass market adoption of SOFC fuel cell systems
Coordinator: AKTSIASELTS ELCOGEN (EE)
Elcogen’s mission is to be instrumental in realising the potential for distributed power generation from deploying SOFCs, the most efficient fuel cells when it comes to converting fuel to power and heat (CHP). However, there are two main obstacles to successful mass commercialisation: high manufacturing cost and insufficient life-time.Elcogen's SOFCs have best-in-class electrical efficiency of 74%, their lower operating temperature allows lower cost (up to 76%) fuel cell systems to be produced by CHP system manufacturers. They are fully validated for standard manufacturing techniques, are ful…
About Horizon 2020 (2014–2020)
Horizon 2020 was the EU's flagship research and innovation programme for 2014–2020, with a budget of around €77 billion. It bundled FP7's strands with the EIT and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, introduced a stronger societal-challenge orientation, and pushed the funding logic toward closer-to-market innovation. New calls closed in 2020 but funded projects continued through 2024.
Co-funding: the European Union contributes €1.8M toward a total project budget of €2.6M — a funding rate of 70%, with the remainder covered by the consortium partners. The project runs over approximately 3 years from 2018-09-01 to 2021-08-31.
Full record on CORDIS — partners, deliverables, publications, news.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who funds this research project?
- This project is funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) programme, under the SME-2 funding scheme.
- What is the EU contribution?
- The European Commission contributes €1.8M toward a total project budget of €2.6M.
- Which EU programme funds it?
- The project is funded under Horizon 2020 (2014–2020), call H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020.
- Who coordinates the project?
- The project is coordinated by AKTSIASELTS ELCOGEN (EE).
- What is the project timeline?
- The project runs from 2018-09-01 to 2021-08-31 — approximately 3 years.
- Where can I find the full project record?
- The complete record — partners, deliverables, publications and news — is published on CORDIS under project ID 823620.