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).

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May 28, 2025
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 […]
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May 26, 2025
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) […]
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April 17, 2025
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 […]
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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.

 
About the consortium