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

June 17, 2025

LAURELIN presented at the CILCA 2025 Conference

From 7 until 11 April 2025, in Mexico City (Mexico), the “International conference on Life Cycle Assessment in Latin America” was held at the Universidad Nacional […]
May 28, 2025

Scientific article by the LAURELIN partners published in the ACS Catalysis journal

The LAURELIN project partners  Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Universidad de Almeria (UAL) and the University College London (UCL) have recently worked on their scientific paper […]
May 26, 2025

LAURELIN partner Aliénor attends the event by the European Parliament’s Intergroup SEArica on decarbonisation of maritime transport

Earlier this month, the LAURELIN consortium partner Aliénor – in charge of communication, dissemination & exploitation – attended the high-level event inside the European Parliament (Brussels) […]

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.