POREEN

Funding programme 7PQ-People-Marie Curie-IRSES

Project reference PIRSES-GA-2012-318908

Principal investigator Francesca Spigarelli

Role UniMC Coordinator

Consortium Bejing Normal University (CN), Università Politecnica delle Marche (IT), Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Toulose (FR), Ass. Istituto universitario Studi europei (IT), University of Ulster (UK), East China University of Political Science and Law (CN), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN), Tongji University (CN)

Runtime from 01.01.2013 to 31.12.2016

Short description The research project aims at integrating and combining economic, legal and engineering competencies to analyze the level of economic cooperation reached so far between China and Europe in the renewable energy and the environment industries and to identify specific areas to boost partnership opportunities. The first one is focused on trade and investment flows and aims at identifying critical issues, gaps, and potentials in Europe-China relationships. Major effects of Europe-China agreements on foreign direct investments (FDI) and trade flows are examined. Problems encountered and opportunities to be seized at firm level will also be analyzed. The economic analysis is supported and enriched by the engineering and legal perspectives. Engineering knowledge is fundamental to defining concretely the sectors, products and processes which have high deployment potential. Engineering research activity is focused on two main research areas, both related with energy efficiency and carbon dioxide reduction: mobility and the transportation sector and low carbon buildings.

Total cost € 718.200,00

EU contribution € 718.200,00

EU contribution to UniMC € 100.800,00

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