EnergyLab
The EnergyLab Foundation was founded in Milan in 2007 with the goal of creating a network of actors in the energy field including universities, the business world and regional and local government. It is a non-profit organization whose members include Milan’s 5 major universities. The foundation promotes research and innovation in all areas of the energy sector, operating by way of 6 laboratories focusing on different themes: Renewable Energies, Smart Grids, Nuclear Security, Electric Mobility, Energy Efficiency and Access to Energy in Developing Countries.
The foundation’s legal status as a participatory foundation makes it possible for it to undertake non-profit activities, furnishing support to its members and present and future partners.
The Scientific Members are:
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Università Commerciale “L. Bocconi”
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Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Politecnico di Milano
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Università degli Studi di Milano
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RSE – Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico
European and special project
The European Commission has developed a number of Programmes for funding research, development and technological innovation in the energy fields. In order to be updated to such financing opportunities EnergyLab Foundation has created the European and Special Projects Area (EPS), provided also with a resource situated in Brussels in the offices of Casa Lombardia.
The “Lombardy energy system” has a long tradition of being linked to the broader financing initiatives promoted by the European Commission through the Framework Programmes: Universities, Institutions and enterprises actively participate to the Calls for Proposals and Tenders. Through its EPS EnergyLab Foundation wants to provide the whole Lombardy system with a targeted service able to increase the possibility of demanding and joining financing opportunities.
Thanks to its deep expertise of European procedures and strong links with European Institutions, the EPS enables EnergyLab to be the official spokesman of Lombard academic, industrial and institutional realities in energy matters vis-à-vis the European Commission.
