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The main goal of Enhance Europe project concerns the set-up of a field-scale system able to collect and convert the solar energy into internal energy in a fluid medium, to transmit the stored energy to a fluid (water) to produce domestic/sanitary hot water or for domestic heating, so as to reduce the use of fossil fuels for the production of domestic/sanitary hot water (gas, oil, fuel or electricity). The energy harvesting system, embedded in road pavements under thin-layer asphalt wearing courses, expects to recover and reuse solar renewable energy thanks to integrated conversion technologies for building heating. The project aims at developing advanced research and innovative excellence in thermal energy harvesting and accumulation in the built environment among European countries. Implementing the European New Bauhaus (NEB), an integrated approach able to consider the technical, societal, economic, environmental and transport sector issues is advised for a sustainable mobility and building management, promoting synergies among energy communities, neutral and positive energy districts, climate neutral cities policies, smart building systems, efficient energy management and control systems for buildings. The technology takes into account different scale economies in different European contexts (local processes and practices, climate diversity, building types, etc.), towards EU standardisation. This will be possible thanks to a strong international Consortium of
experienced partners in thermal energy harvesting, automation, electronics, business, to reach excellent joint results dealing with scientific knowledge, research and development, education and public engagement. The project will allow to concretize specific developments in various fields as following described: