The European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC-Platform) became a European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP) on 26 January 2016.
The ETIPs are foreseen to be a continuation of European Technology Platforms (ETPs) and European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs) in a single platform with the freedom to organise themselves as they see fit. They will continue to be the recognised interlocutor for the European Commission /Member States /Associated Countries about sector specific Researh and Innovation needs.
Composition: industrial stakeholders (in Composition: cl. also SMEs), research organisations and academic stakeholders covering the whole innovation chain, with arrangements for interactions with Member States and the European Commission but also representatives of businesses, regulators, civil society and NGOs as relevant. It is expected that EERA “Joint Programmes” members are actively participating in ETIPs.
The Technology Panels are a pool of experts in charge of providing specific technology input to the strategic documents produced by the Horizontal Working Groups and to the activities of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling. Technology Panels have been set up on
- Solar Thermal
- Biomass
- Geothermal
- Heat Pump
- District Heating & Cooling & Thermal Storage.
