Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon Europe through a joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium
Research Project, 2021
– 2025
A Roadmap to the realization of fusion energy was adopted by the EFDA system at the end of 2012. The roadmap aims at achieving all the necessary know-how to start the construction of a demonstration power plant (DEMO) by 2030, in order to reach the goal of fusion electricity in the grid by 2050. The roadmap has been articulated in eight different Missions. The present proposal has the goal of implementing the activities described in the Roadmap during Horizon 2020 through a joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion Consortium.
ITER is the key facility in the roadmap. Thus, ITER success remains the most important overarching objective of the programme and, in the present proposal the vast majority of resources in Horizon 2020 are devoted to ensure that ITER is built within scope, time and budget; its operation is properly prepared; and a new generation of scientists and engineers is properly educated (at undergraduate and PhD level) and trained (at postdoctoral level) for its exploitation. DEMO is the only step between ITER and a commercial fusion power plant. To achieve the goal of fusion electricity demonstration by 2050, DEMO construction has to begin in the early 2030s at the latest, to allow the start of operation in the early 2040s. DEMO cannot be defined and designed by research laboratories alone, but requires the full involvement of industry in all technological and systems aspects of the design. Specific provisions for the involvement of industry in the Consortium activities are envisaged.
Participants
Pär Strand (contact)
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Collaborations
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wien, Austria
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia, Bulgaria
Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (Ciemat)
Madrid, Spain
Comenius University in Bratislava
Bratislava, Slovakia
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Juelich, Germany
Ghent university
Gent, Belgium
Helmholtz
Berlin, Germany
Hungarian Academy of Science, WIGNER Research Centre for Physics
Budapest, Hungary
Institute of plasma physics
Prag, Czech Republic
Institute of Plasma Physics & Laser Microfusion (IPPLM)
Warsawa, Poland
Instituto Superior Tecnico
Lisboa, Portugal
Institutul de Fizica Atomica
Ilfov, Romania
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)
Roma, Italy
Jozef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Lithuanian Energy Institute
Kaunas, Lithuania
Max Planck Society
München, Germany
National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
Athens, Greece
National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Den Haag, Netherlands
RESEARCH STUDIOS AUSTRIA FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
Salzburg, Austria
Royal Military Academy
Brussels, Belgium
Ruder Boskovic Institute
Zagreb, Croatia
Sofia University
Sofia, Bulgaria
Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie (SCK-CEN)
Brussel, Belgium
Studsvik
Nyköping, Sweden
Swedish Research Council (VR)
Stockholm, Sweden
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Espoo, Finland
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Lyngby, Denmark
Technical University of Munich
Muenchen, Germany
Technische Universität Graz
Graz, Austria
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Oxford, United Kingdom
Universite catholique de Louvain
Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Bruxelles, Belgium
University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
University of Latvia
Riga, Latvia
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia
Vienna University of Technology
Wien, Austria
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: 101052200
Funding Chalmers participation during 2021–2025
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces
Energy
Areas of Advance