Partners & Collaborators
The laboratory maintains active research collaborations with universities, research institutes, industry partners and public agencies across 20+ countries. Partnerships range from joint EU project consortia to long-term bilateral research agreements and industry co-supervision of doctoral work.
Partners We Work Closely With
Some of the lab's central partnerships, built through joint projects, exchange and shared research. This selection will grow over time.
Where the Smart Energy Systems concept was born. The lab co-developed the framework with Aalborg in 2011 and still co-supervises PhDs, publishes jointly and runs Erasmus+ exchange with the group.
Visit →One of Europe's leading centres for energy systems research. Joint work on energy systems modelling and sector coupling, with lab alumni now researching there.
Visit →The lab's longest industry partnership, continuous since 2001. Shared AVL FIRE licences, joint theses, student placements and co-authored work on combustion, biofuels and emission reduction.
Visit →A Network Across Europe & Beyond
Every partner organisation the laboratory works with, from the Adriatic to the North Sea and the Danube to the Pearl River Delta. Click a marker to see the partner and the projects behind it.
Conferences & Global Outreach
The lab co-founded one of the leading conference series in sustainable energy and continues to chair it. The SDEWES network connects researchers across 60+ countries.
20th SDEWES Conference · Dubrovnik 2025 · Jubilee edition
A Selection of Our Partners
The lab collaborates with far more organisations than can be listed here, across projects, joint research and Erasmus+ exchange. Below is a selection of universities and research institutes, industry, and the public bodies that turn our models into real energy plans. Click any name to visit their website.
Research Collaboration
The laboratory joins projects as the partner that builds the models and produces the evidence: energy system scenarios, simulation, spatial analysis and experimental work. Four ways this usually starts are set out here. If your question fits none of them, write to us anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right group for it.
Project Consortia
Bring us in at proposal stage and we write the modelling work package: scenario design, system optimisation, impact quantification, and the deliverables that follow. We have run this role from partner to coordinator.
Contract Research for Industry
A defined technical question answered against a deadline: combustion or process simulation, feasibility of a fuel switch, energy audit of a plant, or sizing of a storage and generation portfolio. Contracted directly through the faculty.
City & Regional Planning
For cities, utilities and agencies: heat demand mapping, district heating and cooling network design, energy community and storage assessment, and decarbonisation roadmaps that hold up in a formal planning document.
Academic Exchange
Co-supervised doctoral work, staff and student mobility, joint publications, and shared use of our models and computational tools. Suitable for bilateral programmes and for groups wanting to build modelling capacity.