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

March 26, 2024

LAURELIN’s partner PDC participates at LCA to CCUS & alternative fuels workshop organised by CINEA

On March 12th, Ema Nemet – LAURELIN project partner from Process Design Center (PDC) – participated at the online workshop organised by CINEA on “LCA to […]
February 28, 2024

LAURELIN’s research to be presented on the “Connecting Europe Days” in Brussels

THE CONNECTING EUROPE DAYS From 2 until 5 April 2024, the European Commission’s Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) is organising the “Connecting Europe Days” […]
February 9, 2024

LAURELIN partners travel to Valencia to present the project’s results with the European Commission

Valencia, 23 January 2024 – From 22 until 23 January 2024, Horizon 2020 LAURELIN project’s Consortium partners met in Valencia (Spain) with the European Commission Project Officer […]

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.