Knowledge Sharing Workshop 2025: Accelerating Heating and Cooling Innovations
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Glasgow, Scotland

Date: 16 September 2025, 9:00 AM-17:00 BST | Networking event 18:00 BST

Date: 17 September 2025, 9:00-13:00 BST Funded projects and funding organisations only; site visit in Glasgow.

Venue: The Ramshorn, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

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This Knowledge Sharing Workshop is organised by the GEOTHERMICA Initiative, JPP Smart Energy Systems, and the Clean Energy Transition Partnership & hosted by the Scottish Enterprise. This one-and-a-half-day in-person event, taking place on 16 and 17 September in Glasgow, Scotland, will focus on insightful presentations, discussions, and networking opportunities.

The workshop aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and create value for both the projects and the wider audience. It is organised for initiatives working on innovative technologies and solutions for heating and cooling in the field of geothermal energy. Selected projects will present their progress, and discussions will focus on key topics and challenges relevant to the sector, including project implementation, funding support, sector coupling, thermal energy storage, and the essential role of transnational and national funding in enabling innovation.

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to network, learn, share experiences, and collaborate with experts in the fields of heating and cooling, as well as geothermal energy. Join us in beautiful Scotland!

The workshop is free to attend, but registration is required due to limited seats.

Contact us: tri4@cetpartnership.eu or info@geothermica.eu

Agenda

9:30 Registration

10:00 Welcome

  • Introduce Scottish ambitions for the heating transition

  • Introduce EU frameworks: CETPartnership TRI4 H&C 2022-2023, GEOTHERMICA & JPP SES join

10:30 Portfolio of projects

  • Overview of CETPartnership Heating and Cooling activities and funded projects

  • Insights from the GEOTHERMICA & JPP SES Joint Call

11:00 Coffee break – poster session

11:30 Geothermal session

  • Projects presentations proposals (5 projects, 15 min; choose). Projects present where they stand, their impact and next steps.

  • Parallel session 'The diversity of solutions for heating and cooling'

13:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 Systems for heating and cooling the cities session

This session features a diverse set of projects addressing the critical link between heating and cooling supply and demand in urban and regional contexts. 

  • GEOCOHORT: Facilitating the system integration of Geothermal energy through Platform-based Design.
    Presenting organisation:  Mälardalen University
  • E-Fryer: The E-Fryer Project - Electrifying the Potato Chip Production
    Presenting organisation: DLR e.V.
  • PVT4EU: Hybrid Photovoltaic–Thermal (PVT) Solar Systems for Europe
    Presenting organisation: LNEG
  • GOES: Storage & Geothermal based optimized energy systems
    Presenting organisation: Empa
  • SAFEHEAT: Sustainable Alternative Fluids for Efficient Heat Pumps.
    Presenting organisation Mines Paris PSL
  • S-GEOHEAT Shallow-Geothermal sourced Low-Temperature District Heating. Presenting organization: AEE INTEC

15:30 Networking coffee break & poster session

16:00 Thermal storage technologies session
This session explores the role of thermal energy storage across both the built environment and industrial applications.

  • LEG-DHC Large-scale Climate‑Neutral Energy Geostructures in District Heating & Cooling
    Presenting organisation: University of Lille
  • G2C: Galleries to Calories
    Presenting organisation: TownRock Energy
  • CHASE: Combining Hight Temperature Heat Pump and PCM Storage for maximum efficiency & flexibility
    Presenting organisation: TNO
  • COMHPTES: Flexible Compact Modular Heat Pump and PCM based Thermal Energy Storage System for heat and cold industrial applications
    Presenting organisation:
    SynchroStor
  • LA-FLEX Flexible latent thermal storage for reserve markets access of heating and cooling systems.
    Presenting organization: SINTEF

17:00 Innovation panel: The business of the heat transition
How do we unlock the market potential of thermal storage? In this discussion session, companies involved in the heat transition and thermal energy storage will share perspectives on commercialisation, investment, and scaling solutions that make thermal flexibility a key driver of the energy transition 

18:00 Networking with poster session
Wrap up the day with informal networking, drinks, and another chance to view the project posters and connect with peers.