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Multidisciplinary and complementarily in the consortium




Distribution of partners

The consortium of GREENERGY intends to cover all different  tasks and objectives of the proposal. For this purpose horticulture and greenhouse grower associations (PAS, DG, KPL, HFVIPO, EHA, COE, CONF and TGA), which are aware of general situation of European horticulture and specially utilisation of energy in their members greenhouses in their related countries have been involved  to the consortium of this project proposal.

Additionally, several greenhouse grower (as end-user, HO, PAE, SKI, VPO, AN, APS and HKO) provide a practical and closer view to the specific cases and opportunity to practical evaluation of the theoretical results of the whole project. On the other hand, research institutes (TTZ, VTT, WU, UPT, KVL, EAU, UAL) fulfil the technical  and scientific tasks of project under scientific and experimental support of horticultural energy experts (AGC, FEC and BL) with high experience in greenhouse energy systems. Thus, all the relevant sectors are represented: horticulture association and research institute with high experience in horticulture field and greenhouse energy systems get together to deliver valuable results for the greenhouse grower SME´s. The figure shows the distribution of partners involved in the project consortium which covers almost all the regions of Europe.

The group of IAGs (PAS, DG, KPL, HFVIPO, EHA, COE, CONF and TGA) in the consortium comprise the most important  greenhouse growers and greenhouse energy system expert  SMEs. The IAGs will participate in both the research stage and in the dissemination phase of the GREENERGY. During the research period, their task will be to cooperate with the RTDs in compiling information, in the initiation European Quality Standard (EQS) and  in the elaboration of the energy optimisation guideline. The IAGs will be also responsible partners for the dissemination of the project as they will contact their members in order to spread the initiated EQS and optimisation guideline. On the other hand IAGs will also establish contact with other association and will be in charge of keeping updated the results.



As mentioned before, SME core groups in the consortium of GREENERGY can be divided in two groups:

  • The greenhouse growers (HO, PAE, SKI, VPO, AN, APS and HKO) will provide direct information to the RTDs in order to make it possible to perform the required evaluation about the current situation. Scientific results of the project (EQS initiation and optimisation guideline elaboration) will be tested practically by some of greenhouse growers and necessary feedback will be provided in order to match the result of project with the needs of growers practically.
  • Greenhouse energy system experts (AGC, FEC and BL) support the RTD partners to compile and analysis of information,  evaluation of the results and adjust it based on the field test results in order to make it practical and user friendly as much as possible based on their long experience in this field. These SMEs participate in the dissemination phase by informing their customer about the developed standards and optimisation guideline.

The consortium comprises eight RTDs (TTZ, VTT, WU, UPT, KVL, EAU, UAL and HU) with wide range of knowledge in horticulture, energy systems for horticulture and in the environmental sector. The RTD performers compile the information with the support of greenhouse growers and IAG groups. RTD performers initiate a practical EQS for the greenhouse energy systems and create an optimisation guideline for European greenhouse energy systems. They will also produce support materials and train the IAGs in the implementation of EQS and optimisation guideline.