PARTNERS
ORION PROJECT PARTECIPANTS

The mission of INTEGRAre is to conceive and develop new technological applications in the field of renewable energies and to propose them on the market. The first application is on Solar solution. In this field, INTEGRAre is developing innovative systems based on Concentration of solar light. The goal is to realize solutions both for big solar plant and for small systems.
INTEGRAre is working in the following areas to:
Develop new technologies in the field of the solar energy: about this a particular interest have new systems of Solar Concentrators and an innovative hybrid system (photovoltaic-termoelectric-thermal, HPVC),Stirling motor.
Plan these new systems, in particular in Italy, that should have an elevated index of development in the next years.
Install solar PV solution for commercial, public and private sectors.
Collaborate with national and international research centers to develop new technologies able to produce energy from renewable resources.

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Contact person:
FRANCO RASELLO
f.rasello@integrare.it

CRP was established in June 2002, thanks to the joint efforts of CRF (Fiat Research Centre), ALRLI (Automotive Lighting Rear Lamps Italia) and Agemont with the aim to promote research activity and increase knowledge in the field of:
optics, lighting and communication devices,
moulding of plastic materials and related technologies,
micro and nano technologies.
The Mission of the society is to provide innovation, services and consulting to SMEs in order to promote their competitiveness and transfer to them developed innovation. The industrial research activity of CRP is aimed at providing the customer with 3 types of results: innovative products, innovative manufacturing processes and new methodologies.

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Contact person:
SARA PADOVANI
sara.padovani@crp.crf.it

The company was established in 1994 by group of solar energy professionals with long term engineering skill. The main activity of the company is Research, development and production of solar trackers and concentrators. Poulek Solar produce and deliver in particular the solar energy collector stands, and these both in the stationary and mobile implementations with the automatic Sun tracking movement in the sky and thus turning the solar energy collectors stands perpendicularly to the direction of the solar radiation all day long. The first Solar Tracker was designed by Ing. Poulek in 1981. Poulek Solar also deliver complete photovoltaic solar systems fitted with photovoltaic panels based on the customer’s request. Currently our clients are to be found mostly from the countries of southern Europe and eastern Asia.

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Contact person:
VLADISLAV POULEK
info@solar-solar.com

Within the CNR-INFM Natl. Lab. is active the LILIT group whose activity is devoted to the micro and nano fabrication. The facilities are pivoted around the beam line of X-ray lithography and Dual Beam lithography system. The instrumentation set-up is completed by an imprinting stage, a sputtering and two reactive ion etching machines, a metal evaporator a PECVD and electroplating hood and the minor equipment for nanofabrication process and metrology. The all facility is accommodated in three clean room for a total of 200 m2 of controlled area. The laboratory works as facility in the frame work of ELETTRA Synchrotron system. Since the beginning of the activities dating 1999, the LILIT group has accumulated a data bank of nanofabrication processes developing in particular multi techniques 3D lithography applied on functionalized materials. Specific fields of interests are nano-optics and photonics.

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Contact person:
FILIPPO ROMANATO
romanato@tasc.infm.it

MET is owner of cost-effective next generation manufacturing technology for photovoltaic (PV) cells, based oh highly innovative concept – self-formation. The fundamental principle of self-formation, having much in common with grow processes found in living nature, is generation of structural growth processes through interaction of chaotic and structured media by applying smart cellular automata software, based on topological approximation of the self-increasing complexity of artificial systems. Application of self-formation manufacturing concept enables manufacturing cost reductions.
MET also has an expertise in materials for fiber optics elements. Specialty Optical Fiber Preforms made of highly pure silica glass with fluorine-doped silica cladding are used for fiber optics manufacturing. All products are extra-fine quality and conform with the highest industry standards.

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Contact person:
DARIUS JANUSONIS
darius.janusonis@met.lt

The PV Technology Group, is part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. One of the main priorities of the Department is to develop a research portfolio into the area of renewable energy sources with emphasis on solar and PV systems. The PV Technology group has just completed the installation of the first Photovoltaics Park of its kind at the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with the Institute of Physical Electronics, University of Stuttgart, Germany. The park aims at characterising the performance of PV systems under real field conditions. The PV park currently consists of 15 different grid-connected PV technologies (1kWp each one). We are looking to conduct high quality research in the area of PV systems and to be actively involved in EU initiatives that will enable us to contribute on the EU scene but to also achieve transfer of knowledge to our country in a field of utmost importance for the future of our energy mix in Cyprus.

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Contact person:
GEORGE GEORGHIOU
geg@ucy.ac.cy