On Monday 12 June, Trondheim is making a name for itself as a new European research capital for climate change technology, now that NTNU and SINTEF have been jointly awarded coordinator status for the European CCS infrastructure project ECCSEL ERIC.
The day kicked-off with this film:
Energy laboratories for the future – the presentations:
NTNU and SINTEF provide for the Green Transition, with excellent laboratories
Gunnar Bovim, Rector of NTNU. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Inge R. Gran, President for SINTEF Energy Research. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Norway as host for ECCSEL ERIC and the importance of research infrastructure, Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation.
Wolfgang Burtscher, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Official handover of the ECCSEL ERIC plaque
Wolfgang Burtscher presents the ECCEL ERIC plaque to Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde and Sverre Quale, direktor of the ECCSEL laboratories. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Possibilities and challenges for the Green Transition, Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde, State Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Carbon Capture and Storage possibilities and ECCSEL. What is new within CCS research?, Sverre Quale, ECCSEL project director
Director of the ECCSEL laboratory Sverre Quale. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
The Waterpower laboratory’s significance for the Norwegian society now and in the future, Oluf Ulseth, Chief Executive of Energy Norway
Oluf Ulseth, Chief Executive of Energy Norway, Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Opening ceremony in the renewed Thermal Energy laboratories with guided tour
Ingvil Smines Tybring-Gjedde, State Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy opened the laboratory by burning off a chain as a part of the formal opening. Photo: NTNU/Thor NielsenNils A. Røkke, Executive Vice President Sustainability – SINTEF and Terese Løvås, NTNU, presenting the illustration that show the research areas of the laboratory. Photo: NTNU/Thor NielsenMona Mølnvik, Research Director SINTEF, presenting new and vital laboratory infrastructure. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Mario Ditaranto, Senior Research Scientist – SINTEF, presenting the HIPROX facility. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
The Waterpower laboratory: then and now
Hege Brende, Centre Director FME Hydrocen, presentin HydroCen at the Waterpower laboratory. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
Guest studying intricate details in at the Waterpower laboratory. Photo: NTNU/Thor Nielsen
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