Our New EU Project procuRE is Starting

European Commission granted‘’ procuRE: re-commercial Procurement of Breakthrough Solutions for 100% Renewable Energy Supply in Buildings’’ project, in which Özyeğin University (OzU) and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) are partners, under Horizon 2020 program. The project will officially be started as of December 2020, to support renewable energy applications by receiving 7 million Euros of R&D investment.

Within the scope of the project, involving Dr. Touraj Ashrafian, Dr. Neşe Ganiç Sağlam, Dr. Ece Özdemir from the OzU, Faculty of Architecture and Design Building Materials and Physics Laboratory, aimed to provide 100% renewable energy to existing public buildings located in different cities in Europe. These developed systems will be purchased through a tender method and will be implemented in selected public buildings. Improvement tasks will be implemented in facilities so that the annual energy requirement of each building will be supplied totally from renewable energy systems. The OzU team will carry out the necessary research studies to ensure that the pilot building in Istanbul uses 100 % renewable energy withouth requiring other energy resources.

Partners: KSSENA (Coordinator), Özyeğin University, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, EMPRICA , EURAC and ELIAT, Barcelona, Nürenberg and Porto Municipalities

OzU Project Team: Dr. Touraj Ashrafian, Dr. Neşe Ganiç Sağlam, Dr. Ece Özdemir

Advisor: Prof. Dr. A. Zerrin Yılmaz