News & Events

This week, the POWERBASE team attended Intersolar Europe in Munich – a leading fair for the solar industry and its partners.

Eleni Lianou from Center for Security Studies (KEMEA) gave a presentation on Innovation Procurement for emergency response operations.

Afterwards, three energy solution providers demonstrated their technology and explained how that would meet emergency responder needs for sustainable energy for emergencyshelters and bases of operation.

On 14 March 2025, Eleni Lianou and Filomena Vieira gave innovation procurement training

On 13 March 2025, POWERBASE partners met to analyse the potential of existing and emerging technologies and assess if they could meet the needs of emergency response operations.

On 12 March 2025, POWERBASE partners met to align and discuss project progress.

Roberto Summa and Sabato Anastasia visited Key – The Energy Transition Expo in Rimini, Italy from March 5-7, 2025.

POWERBASE coordinator Alexander Rösner, Ph.D. from German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) presented the POWERBASE project at the 11th BMBF Symposium on European Security Research in Brussels on March 5-6, 2025

The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief organised a German national POWERBASE workshop on February 4th.

Vieira Procurement Legal Services organised a Portuguese national POWERBASE workshop on January 31st.

Austrian Red Cross organised an Austrian national POWERBASE workshop on January 29th.

Ministère de l´Intérieur organised a French national POWERBASE workshop on January 28th.

The Samaritans Slovakia (ASSR) organised a Slovakian national POWERBASE workshop on January 24th.

GB organised a Dutch national POWERBASE workshop on January 24th.

HCSOM organised a Hungarian national POWERBASE workshop on January 23rd.

CNVVF organised an Italian national POWERBASE workshop on January 21st.

KEMEA organised a Greek national POWERBASE workshop in Athens on January 20th.

POWERBASE published Emergency Response Scenarios for needs assessment of emergency response organisations as a first step towards procurement of renewable energy technologies.

The POWERBASE consortium organised an online workshop for needs assessment of emergency response organisations for mobile power supply.

The POWERBASE consortium had its second GA meeting.

POWERBASE researchers Danai Kazantzidou-Firtinidou and John Tsaloukidis from KEMEA presented the POWERBASE project at the Nicosia Risk Forum 2024.

During the POWERBASE Kick-Off meeting, a first workshop on Scenario Definition was held. Project partners discussed three scenarios featuring different climatic and geographic regions, and layouts for bases of operations and emergency shelters were discussed.

The second day of the POWERBASE Kick-Off meeting featured talks by WP leaders on Dissemination and Communication and Preparation of Procurement. In addition, there were trainings on innovation procurement and the first part of the workshop on scenario definition was held. In the evening, the consortium visited a local chapter from the German Federal Technical Relief Agency.

The POWERBASE consortium came together in Frankfurt, Germany to meet and discuss our plans for the upcoming year: how to lay the foundation for future procurement of low-emission energy solutions by emergency response organisations.

We are excited to announce the launch of the EU funded POWERBASE project, which aims to provide the basis for future procurement of mobile, low-emission energy solutions by emergency response organisations.