ECCSEL ERIC operates a world-class distributed CCUS Research Infrastructure that offers access to conduct research, enabling researchers to generate substantial knowledge which can lead to new innovative solutions – more efficient products, processes and services related to CCUS – and thereby help to address societal challenges like climate change and secure energy supply. ECCSEL helps accelerating research for solutions with TRL 1 - 7 from fundamental research to verification to scaling up. This will help reaching the goals set out in the national and the EU Industrial Carbon Management strategies and goals. ECCSEL raises the technological level of European industry, start-ups and SMEs, improving their competitiveness through their involvement in instrument and technology development and service provision. ECCSEL helps to reduce costs, de-risk investments and supports and confirms safe operation of CCUS technologies. It helps to maintain Europe at the forefront of the international CCUS scientific community making the European Research Area more attractive for European and international scientists, and reinforces cooperation between research institutions. ECCSEL also helps provide insight into the social and economic impact of European science.

ECCSEL SERVICES include: In person access (external or internal researcher comes physically to ECCSEL facilities and conducts their research project with the required technical and scientific support and training); Remote access (Direct remote access to some facilities of indirect remote access through local technicians and scientists, providing them with instructions); Contract research (conduct research on behalf of someone else); Training (facility technical and scientific training, CCUS technologies scientific training, summer schools, scientific diving school, webinars); Research result and research data access (access to research results like research reports and research raw data). Other Services: Community and outreach: Community building: Scouting, brokerage, awareness creation, dissemination, ecosystem building; Market intelligence: Market intelligence, market assessments, road mapping, technology watch; Knowledge sharing: Workshops, seminars to share knowledge and experience; Representation: Representing interests during meetings & conferences, organizing (country) visits, roadshows, publications. Research: Joint research: Joint, pre-competitive R&D, secondment from companies, building new advanced laboratories; Contract research: Specific R&D, technology concept development, proof of concept; Technical support: Concept validation, prototyping, small series production; Facilities: Renting equipment, low-rate production, platform technology infrastructure, Lab facilities; Testing and validation: Certification, product demonstration, product qualification. Skills, Capacity building and Project development: Capacity Building: Workshops, technological infrastructure for education, secondment; Project development: Identification of opportunities, i.e., development of proposals; Consortium development: Match making EU research projects, setting up research consortia. ECCSEL industrial engaged community research program: The ECCSEL industrial engaged community research program is a program that is specifically designed for industry that are interested in research, pilot demonstration and/or are already in the deployment phase of first-of-a-kind CCUS facility. The industrial engaged research creates the opportunity of a potential joint research program based on research needs and structured consolidation of lessons learned. Joint research program: The joint research program is pre-competitive and is mainly the result of the research needs that have been identified in the industrial engaged community research program. The ECCSEL OC has a crucial role in pro-actively define potential scope for industrial engaged research. Based on industrial engaged community workshops and knowledge sharing sessions the potential research needs and priorities will be assessed. Training and Capacity building: The capacity building needs are being identified in the industrial engaged research workshops. This means that knowledge at ECCSEL, and industry needs to be combined with industry specific knowledge. The development of a secondment program between industry and ECCSEL needs to be established. This will need pro-active development of a training and secondment program from ECCSEL OC with input and collaboration from industry