SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Technological and Renewable Energy Institute (ITER), a company dependent on the Cabildo de Tenerife, has obtained recognition in the ‘Pitch Corner’ session of the ‘Week of Sustainable Mobility and Climate 2022 in Dakar’ for the MACLAB-PV project .
In this event, different experts from the sector presented initiatives related to sustainable energy that could be replicated in Africa.
Among the more than 200 proposals, the project led by ITER has been one of those selected for its contribution to improving R&D capacities and infrastructures related to renewable energies and energy efficiency in the Canary Islands and Senegal.
The First Vice President and Island Councilor for Innovation, Enrique Arriaga, explains in a note that “the MACLAB-PV project aims to apply scientific and technological activity in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sector, in order to contribute to sustainable development from the regions of the Canary Islands and Senegal” and recalls that “for their development they have had the collaboration of Senegalese centers, which are the ones who have presented them at the ‘Pitch Corner'”.
Specifically, MACLAB-PV seeks to increase energy efficiency and make participating regions more sustainable.
To this end, work has been done to improve the Photovoltaic Cell R&D Laboratory located at ITER and three new field R&D Laboratories have been created, one on renewable energies and two on energy efficiency.
In addition, within the framework of this initiative, dissemination and awareness actions are carried out on regional scientific activity and exchange meetings and joint training of research and teaching staff, using the improved infrastructures.
Enrique Arriaga also points out that “Sustainable Mobility and Climate Week is an international event of reference in Africa, therefore, obtaining this recognition is a milestone for the visibility of the project and has allowed its precursors to contact agents in the sector and with other R&D centres, as well as strengthening the skills of the project’s technicians and researchers”.
1,500 ACTORS FROM 40 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
The ‘Sustainable Mobility and Climate Week 2022’ brought together 1,500 actors and experts related to mobility, energy and climate from 40 different countries.
During the event, a multitude of workshops and plenary acts were held, giving them the opportunity to share the challenges of sustainable mobility and promoting climate action in African territories.
Within the framework of this event, 56 initiatives out of the 200 proposals were selected by the Organizing Committee as Good Practices and were presented at the meeting’s ‘Pitch Corner’, and one of them was MACLAB-PV.
In addition, thanks to this recognition, the project has been integrated into the ‘Virtual Map of Climate Action of the Climate Chance portal’, a platform that highlights the climate initiatives carried out worldwide, which are identified as good practice by the Association Climate Chance and the Cooperation Association for the Development and Improvement of Urban and Periurban Transport, organizers of the ‘Sustainable Mobility and Climate Week’.
