Research & Innovation areas: highlights and socio-economic impacts
proMetheus activities and outcomes aims to create knowledge, design and implement new solutions in the following areas:
- Materials and Mechanics:
- New materials for application in sustainable energy production and storage
- Technologies and solutions and technologies for by-products/waste recycling and reuse
- Digital Design and Manufacturing of Sustainable Mechanical Systems
- Sustainable construction
- Environmentally friendly building materials promoting efficient energy systems;
- Sustainable design of buildings and infrastructures;
- Energy
- Development of new energy systems
- The use of energy resources in a sustainable way
- Promoting efficiency energy in industry
- Environmental technologies
- Innovation in (eco)technologies for water and soil treatment, materials and (bio)energy recovery from biomass and residues;
- Socio-environmental and territorial systems
- Analysis for (natural) resource management and (ecosystem) services assessment associated to socio-environmental systems governance using sensors, (spatial) information systems, digital networks and e-infrastructures research.