The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will coordinate the FusionCAT project, which will receive funding from European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), through the Action Plan of the research and innovation strategy for smart specialization in Catalunya, RIS3CAT. The emerging technologies program promotes the development of new emerging activities in Catalunya, based on innovative or disruptive technologies or processes that aim to open new markets or transform existing ones.
FusionCAT is a project that aims to boost the emerging sector of nuclear fusion in Catalunya and to obtain sustainable, safe and low-carbon energy sources, with a reliable and predictable generation of base load.
Nuclear fusion is one of the few technologies that currently has the potential to meet the need for sustainable, safe and low carbon energy sources, with reliable and predictable base load generation.
The FusionCAT group helps its partners and the entire industry involved to be more competitive at a technical level in the face of future calls for European fusion research programs and in this way, achieve specific plans to promote future joint activities between institutions and partners of the community.
FusionCAT, which is made up of 11 R+D projects, counts with the participation of a consortium formed by 7 reference institutions in their respective fields at Catalan level: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), the IQS University Centre of the Ramon Llull University (URV), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia (IREC), the b_TEC Campus Diagonal-Besós Foundation (BTC) and Eurecat.
From the ICMAB, the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group will participate in the project, with Xavier Granados, Joffre Gutiérrez and Mar Tristany directly involved in the project.
This consortium also intends to establish the knowledge transfer of the institutions associated with the industry to develop industrial skills in Catalunya and achieve fusion energy.
