D6.2 1st annual report on communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities

One of the European Commission's four main priorities as part of the new strategic agenda for the EU 2019-2024 is building a climate-neutral, green, fair, and social Europe, identifying "accelerating the transition to renewables and increasing energy efficiency" among the priority actions. Along the same line, the European Green Deal aims to build a carbon-neutral Europe by 2050.
Considering the weight that industrial process heat has in the total energy demand of the European industry, the first step towards decarbonization in the industrial sector is increasing energy efficiency through the recovery and upgrade of waste heat.
Despite the existence of heat pump technologies for heat upgrading, their wide deployment is not taking place due to various technical and non-technical barriers hindering the uptake. In this context, PUSH2HEAT will work towards overcoming these implementation barriers and push forward the market potential and business models of heat upgrade technologies by the full-scale demonstration of diverse heat upgrading heat pumps in relevant industrial sectors with high waste heat recovery and upgrading potential, as well as with a supply temperature range of 90-160°C.
This deliverable (D6.2) intends to collect and present all communication, dissemination and exploitation activities carried out during the first 12 months of the project. This way spotlighting all the efforts dedicated to raising awareness, promoting the PUSH2HEAT project and its related results, and knowledge generated within and beyond the project, as described in D6.1, Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation Strategy.
This is the first of four reports that will be also prepared on M24, M36, M48.