One of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s key promises is “to make the EU the world’s first climate neutral continent by 2050.” Such bold ambitions need to be backed by ground-breaking technologies, like the ones to be investigated by the HORIZON 2020 LAURELIN project. More specifically, LAURELIN aims at accelerating the production of renewable methanol for transport.

Renewable methanol reduces carbon emissions by 65% to 95% depending on the feedstock and conversion process. This is one of the highest potential reductions of any fuel currently being developed. By deploying carbon capture and use (CCU) technologies, the LAURELIN project will help decarbonising sectors such as energy-intensive process industries like cement, lime, chemicals, steel and other metals or transportation (e.g. road, air, maritime).

Latest news

April 17, 2025

LAURELIN partner earns second-place poster award at “Inaugural Symposium: the role of Higher Education Institutes and Life Cycle Assessment in achieving sustainable futures”

On 26 March 2025, Piya Gosalvitr – representative of LAURELIN project partner University of Manchester (UoM) – recently participated in the “Inaugural Symposium: The Role of […]
March 20, 2025

Interview with our partner University of Manchester (UoM)

As part of our series of interviews of LAURELIN partners, it is the University of Manchester (UoM)‘s turn to give us an outlook of their role […]
March 12, 2025

LAURELIN research presented at the MATSUS Spring conference in Sevilla

From 03 to 07 March 20254, in Sevilla (Spain), Dr Rosa M. Cuéllar-Franca from our LAURELIN project partner University of Manchester attended the “MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference: Sustainable […]

Facts in Brief

Funding organisation

European Commission – Horizon 2020

Timeframe

May 2021 – April 2025

Funding amount

€4.4 million

Coordinator

AIMPLAS
Instituto Tecnológico del Plástico

Partners

LAURELIN gathers ten partners from research organisations, higher education institutions and SMEs from four EU countries, UK and Japan.