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

October 24, 2024

2nd EU-Japan research Cluster Workshop: New production methods of synthetic fuels for a de-carbonised economy

Friday 08 November 2024 – 9:30 – 15:30 (GMT+1) Brussels, Belgium – CSIS Premises On Friday 08 November 2024, the LAURELIN Consortium is joining the 2nd […]
October 17, 2024

LAURELIN’s research presented at the SDEWES September 2024 Conference in Rome

From 8 to 12 September 2024, in Rome (Italy), the 19th conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) was held bringing together […]
October 3, 2024

LAURELIN’s research presented at the ZMPC2024 conference

From July 21 until July 25 2024, Raquel Simancas – representative of LAURELIN project partner Tokyo University – presented her research and work under the LAURELIN […]

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.