The objective of this project is to facilitate the large-scale deployment of solar electricity/heat generation in the 2 Seas and support the EU to meet its target of 20% energy consumption from renewables by 2020. The consortium tests and demonstrates a series of innovative solar solutions on historical/public buildings and households (with focus on lowincome families) in both urban and rural settings. Each demonstrator reduces the cost of solar energy generation in combination with innovative storage technology to enhance efficiencies and greater use at point of generation rather than export to the grid.

SOLARISE  brings together partners from business, academic and public sectors and citizens to stimulate change in the current situation and delivers a comprehensive business case that looks at future financing and investment opportunities in solar generation. Essentially the project helps drive CO2 savings, grid balancing and provide a means to reduce energy bills.

The main outputs of the SOLARISE project are a series of solar energy demonstration projects delivered across the partnership in both urban and rural environments and on domestic (with particular focus on low-income households) and public buildings (with focus on historical ones). The technology demonstration projects are evaluated and reviewed by partners to deliver an Economic Case and Strategy for the wide-scale deployment and replicability of solar energy with storage systems and provide a framework for commercialization of the technology throughout the 2 Seas Region. The partnership organises a campaign for stakeholders and deliver a Solar Roadmap to accelerate solar power adoption in pilot areas. It disseminates project results through conferences, tailored seminars, training events and via a solar energy dedicated web-portal. A guidepackage about legislation, market, technologies and best practices in the 2Seas is one of the outputs. 

The SOLARISE  goal is to accelerate the adoption of solar energy in the 2 seas territories through innovative pilot solar installations.

Solar energy has a great potential of applications that are explored by SOLARISE:
1. Collective or individual roofs (for instance 3 buildings at the UPJV with 3500 m2 rooftop);
2. Facades of public or private buildings;
3. Industries often for self-consumption;
4. Solar farms.

Feasibility studies have already been done for rooftop installations on different type of buildings, on a heritage mill and for innovative
living-labs including hybrid solar panels, storage and internet of things for monitoring. These facilities will be implemented and the
installations will be used as showcases for demonstration, training and R&D purposes.

The contextual framework of solar energy has also been analysed in the 4 countries from the point of view of legislation, market, technology
and best practices. The resultats are in Output 1.

The SOLARISE project organised several events that are open to the public in order to share the solar potential in the 2 Seas Region.

For the achievement of Output 1, the consortium worked together to collect relevant information about solar energy for each participant country and
also to summarize and process this information in a practical manner for the various stakeholders with different interests and level of knowledge related to
various technical/political/legislative/economic aspects.
Output 1 has been and will be disseminated along the whole lifespan of the project and even beyond it to various stakeholders to increase awareness, knowledge
  and understanding of solar energy harvesting
in the 2Seas region. For the dissemination, except for the classical publication of the website and direct communication of the consotrium partners with
the stakeholders during scientific/networking events,  a  webinar for the non-specialists have beeen organized and specific questionnaire is available in the project website and
have been sent to relevant stakeholders.