Our Partners
About
Angler Solutions Inc. is a Canada-based consulting and technology firm headquartered in Newfoundland and Labrador, providing professional services across the energy and ocean technology sectors. Incorporated in 2020, the company builds on extensive experience in offshore oil and gas and the electricity sector, creating a strong foundation of transferable skills that now support work in the global energy transition. Angler specializes in early-phase project development from FEL 1 to 2, with a focus on renewable energy, energy diversification, and ocean technology.
The firm delivers a broad set of services including techno-economic analysis and feasibility studies, renewable integration and grid interconnection assessments, supply chain and infrastructure readiness evaluations for wind, storage, and hydrogen projects, power systems design and site electrification for industrial clients, and strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and funding advisory support. These services help clients de-risk early investment decisions, quantify technical and economic performance, and build clear pathways toward commercial readiness.
Angler combines Canadian expertise with international partnerships, working with organizations across Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. This network strengthens the firm’s ability to deliver high-impact projects in renewable energy, energy diversification, ocean technology, and upstream resources.
Role
Angler Solutions Inc. is serving as the Canadian industrial partner in the SINTEF-led eREGENERATE project, working with Natural Resources Canada to assess how Direct Air Capture can fit within Canada’s emerging carbon management value chains. The team is supporting Work Package 14 and contributing to additional NRCan-led activities by evaluating regional siting options, transport and infrastructure requirements, and opportunities to integrate DAC with renewable energy and CCS facilities, with a focus on Atlantic Canada. Through this role, Angler Solutions provides Canadian context, technical guidance, and deployment insight to inform practical pathways for DAC implementation within an international project framework.
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The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) is the leading research and innovation organization in Greece. It is dedicated to advancing applied research and technological development that address societal and industrial challenges. Through its specialised institutes and multidisciplinary expertise, CERTH operates across key domains including clean energy, climate technologies, digital innovation, sustainable industry, and circular economy solutions. With strong links to European industry, research infrastructures, and policy initiatives, CERTH translates scientific knowledge into practical applications, supporting the development, deployment, and societal uptake of innovative technologies.
Role
CERTH is responsible for leading the communication, dissemination, and stakeholder engagement activities of the project, ensuring that the results are effectively shared with industry, policymakers, the scientific community, and the wider public. CERTH coordinates the development of the dissemination and communication strategy, stakeholder mapping, outreach tools, and project visibility actions, while contributing to the broader management structure through the Communication and Dissemination Manager role. By leveraging its extensive European network and experience in CCUS-related initiatives, CERTH supports knowledge transfer, strengthens stakeholder dialogue, and enhances the long-term impact and acceptance of the project’s Direct Air Capture technology. In addition, CERTH contributes to the technical implementation of the project by participating in the engineering development of the demonstrator, supporting the sizing and optimization of the adsorption bed through numerical simulations and modeling activities, and contributing to the definition of key performance parameters and the energy efficiency of the system.
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Founded in 1978, EDIBON is a leading company specialized in the design and manufacturing of technical teaching equipment, research units, and customized pilot plants. With over 4,500 systems developed across 14 fields of science and engineering, we provide advanced, high-quality solutions for universities, research institutions, and industry. Our work is fully carried out in-house, ensuring total control over quality, customization, and delivery. Backed by global experience and a strong commitment to technological innovation, we are dedicated to supporting education, scientific progress, and industrial research and training worldwide.
Role
In this project, EDIBON brings its expertise in the custom design and full in-house manufacturing of pilot plants tailored to specific research and training needs. We manage the complete engineering process—from detailed design based on partner requirements to fabrication, assembly, and testing. Our support includes both Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), carried out together with end users to ensure seamless validation. Thanks to our global experience and 360º support model, we help enhance the technical capabilities of the consortium while ensuring every solution aligns with project goals.
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Founded in 1978 as an independent, non-profit research institute, IFEU is today organised as a non-profit limited liability company and is one of the leading environmental think tanks in Germany. IFEU undertakes research and provides a goal-oriented consultancy service worldwide and on behalf of many national and international clients. Employing more than 100 staff from different disciplines, the institute seeks answers to urgent environmental and sustainability questions in a scientific, independent, practical, transdisciplinary, creative, and holistic manner. During the past 45+ years, several thousand studies and projects have been conducted on circular economy, on the sustainable and environmentally friendly design of products, processes, and material flows, on the transition towards a bioeconomy within planetary boundaries, on future-oriented mobility and transport, and on a successful energy transition.
Role
In eREGENERATE, IFEU is leading the work on Integrated sustainability assessment and will conduct studies on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) and Integrated Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (ILCSA).
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Johnson Matthey’s vision is for a world that is cleaner and healthier, today and for future generations. As a global leader in sustainable technologies, we apply advanced science to create solutions that make a real difference – helping our customers reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency and accelerate the transition to net zero.
Our technologies enable cleaner transportation, clean energy, green hydrogen, low‑carbon chemicals and the responsible use of the world’s natural resources. Today, Johnson Matthey catalysts are used in around one in three vehicles globally, preventing large quantities of pollutants from entering the atmosphere every minute. We aim for 95% of our sales to contribute to key UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and to achieve net zero by 2040.
With more than 200 years of scientific leadership, we continue to innovate to meet the world’s most urgent challenges – climate change, air quality, resource scarcity and the transformation of energy systems. Johnson Matthey is also driving growth in Clean Air Solutions (CAS), which focuses on differentiated technologies for lower‑carbon internal combustion power systems, CO₂‑equivalent abatement and high‑efficiency heat and power solutions such as solid oxide fuel cells. CAS has seen rapid expansion and now forms a key part of JM’s strategy for a more sustainable future.
Role
In the eREGENERATE project, Johnson Matthey contributes its materials science, catalyst, sorbent‑coating and ceramic‑processing expertise to support the development of next‑generation Direct Air Capture (DAC) and regeneration technologies. JM is responsible for multiple key technical work packages and tasks, including scale‑up, formulation and process optimisation.
Overall responsibilities
Johnson Matthey’s main contributions include:
Scale‑up of hydrophobic zeolite materials
Manufacture of electrically heatable ceramic monoliths
Coating of structured DAC parts
About
MCI | The Entrepreneurial School® in Innsbruck, Austria, combines university, economy, science, research, and consulting into the unique concept of an Entrepreneurial School®, offering high-level study and education programs, solution-oriented research projects, and innovative start-up activities. Numerous study programs at non-graduate, undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the fields of Management & Society and Technology & Life Sciences make the MCI a highly attractive choice for students and partners from all over the world.
Role
Within the Horizon Europe–funded eREGENERATE project, MCI contributes to the development of next-generation direct air capture technology through its work on the electrically conductive substrate used in the project’s adsorption system. Drawing on its expertise in high-temperature materials and electrified reactor concepts, MCI develops fast-heating support structures to facilitate efficient CO₂ desorption and improved energy performance. This contribution supports eREGENERATE’s broader objective of enabling a fully electrified atmospheric CO₂ capture process based on durable, low-cost sorbents and conductive substrates, thereby addressing current limitations in process performance and energy demand.
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) develops policies and programs that enhance the contribution of the natural resources sector to the economy, improve the quality of life for all Canadians and conducts innovative science in facilities across Canada to generate ideas and transfer technologies. NRCan is an established leader in the fields of energy sources and distribution, forests and forestry, minerals and mining, earth sciences, energy efficiency, and science and data, and represents Canada at the international level to meet the country’s global commitments related to the sustainable development of natural resources.
CanmetENERGY Ottawa conducts research and development on a wide array of clean energy technologies. We are working to improve existing technologies and methods, while pioneering novel ones, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy efficiency, and making clean energy technologies economically competitive for the benefit of Canadians. We partner with academia, industry, governmental partners around the world as well as other Canadian government departments to keep Canada competitive and clean.
Role
NRCan with Angler Solutions, using their suite of CCUS and CDR tools (e.g., NCAF platform), will conduct a series of mapping and screening studies to determine the best available replication sites for DAC with associated CO2 transportation and storage in Europe and Canada. Within Canada, the focus will be on Atlantic Canada exclusively considering offshore CO2 storage sites. Activities will include mapping of renewable energy (e.g., onshore versus offshore wind), siting considerations (e.g., marine life, iceberg risks, pipelines, etc.), and integrating offshore storage hubs with onshore CO2 transportation networks.
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Prospex Institute (PI) believes innovation is best shaped together with people through joint research, consultation and co-creation. We enable the involvement of stakeholders — citizens,policymakers, scientists, businesses, government officials and civil society — in decision-making across Europe and in the development of new knowledge. Our diverse, multidisciplinary team blends knowledge from across high-impact sectors (energy, environment, circular economy, technology, forestry, nature-based solutions) with a range of cultural and professional experiences. This diversity uniquely positions us to build inclusive, trusted engagement processes that drive societal impact. Our not-for-profit organisation is based in Brussels, with additional offices in Berlin and Ljubljana.
Role
Prospex Institute (PI) leads the stakeholder engagement and societal acceptance assessment of eREGENERATE, ensuring that the technology’s development and potential deployment will be informed by societal, market, and policy perspectives. Our strategic engagement spans the full project lifetime, starting with identifying relevant stakeholders, gathering their input through interviews and workshops to feed into the projects research outcomes and ensuring their real-world relevance. Through three streams of engagement (targeting community, market, and policy acceptance), PI will establish an iterative feedback loop between the project’s technological development and diverse societal expectations. This approach will allow for the systematic identification of social, economic, and regulatory barriers that can facilitate and support the development and long-term use of the technology.
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POLIMI Profile
Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) is Italy’s leading technical university, specializing in Engineering, Architecture, and Industrial Design since 1863. Operating on a global scale, it serves over 48,000 students, including a large population of future engineers and nearly 2,400 PhD researchers. The university drives advanced research programs through its departments and research group. The eREGENERATE project involves the group of researchers coordinated by prof. Emanuele Martelli, which works on CO2 capture processes, process/cycle optimization and design & operational optimization of microgrids/multi-energy systems.
Role
POLIMI Contribution
Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) takes care of the optimization activies of the eRegenerate project, ranging from the CO2 capture and purification processes to the renewable-based microgrids for electricity supply. POLIMI’s role begins by selecting, modelling and optimizing the CO2 Purification Unit (CPU) . Subsequently, POLIMI integrates all component models (CPU, DAC reactor, renewable systems) into a comprehensive Software Platform for preliminary simulations and heat integration analysis. Finally, utilizing its proprietary tools, POLIMI performs the systematic techno-economic optimization of the integrated system (including fully-renewable microgrids for energy supply) for the selected project locations. As final task, POLIMI will develop also an Online Decision Tool to empower stakeholders in assessing the site-specific viability and environmental impact of Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems.
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Removr (REM) is a Norwegian Direct Air Capture (DAC) company dedicated to scaling carbon removal as a key solution to tackle global warming. Our ambition is clear: to build one of the world’s first large-scale DAC facilities capable of removing one million tonnes of CO₂ annually, setting a new standard for industrial carbon removal.
With proven expertise in delivering complex, large-scale projects, REM has developed an innovative industrial-scale DAC concept designed for efficiency, scalability, and cost leadership. This approach enables REM to capture CO₂ directly from the atmosphere for permanent storage and thus creating high-quality carbon removal credits for organisations committed to net-zero goals.
Our mission is simple yet ambitious: deliver reliable, affordable, and verifiable carbon removal at scale—driving global progress towards a sustainable, climate-positive future.
Role
Beyond technology, REM brings deep knowledge of the carbon removal value chain, advising on strategies for scale-up, commercialisation, and integration with emerging carbon markets. REM work closely with research institutions, industry partners, and policymakers to accelerate deployment and shape the future of climate solutions.
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SINTEF is the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia. SINTEF is a broadly based, multidisciplinary research concern that possesses international top-level expertise in technology, medicine, and the social sciences. SINTEF is an independent, non-commercial organization. The profits of their contract research projects are invested in new research, scientific equipment, and competence development. SINTEF employs 2200 staff who come from 80 different countries. The Process Technology department in the SINTEF Industry division has broad experience in different CO2 capture technologies utilizing absorption solvents, membranes, and solid sorbents. The group involved in this project have extensive experience in the development on porous sorbents for CO2 capture, preparation of sorbents, characterization of the solids and measurement of their sorption properties, sorbent evaluation using different reactor concepts, process and reactor modelling and optimization.
Role
SINTEF is coordinating the eREGENERATE project. Additionally, our primary roles in the project include developing hydrophobic sorbents, conducting process modelling and optimization, and performing laboratory-scale testing.
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The University of Stuttgart is one of the leading technically oriented universities in Germany with global significance. It sees itself as a center of university-based, non-university, and industrial research. Furthermore, it takes a role as a guarantor of research-based teaching, focused on quality and holism. The university promotes the transfer of knowledge and technologies to society in all its areas of expertise and competence. The „Stuttgarter Weg” (Stuttgart Way) means an interdisciplinary integration of engineering, natural sciences, humanities, management, economics and social sciences based on the fundamentals of cutting-edge research at a disciplinary level. Our vision is “Intelligent systems to benefit society”.
Role
The Institute of Technical Chemistry will bring expertise in the synthesis and application of zeolites as well as the technical background for the engineering part. They have experience in both (i) Heterogeneous Catalysis: fundamental and process investigations of zeolites, supported metal catalysts, and redox-active oxides or oxide layers, which are synthesized, characterized, and thoroughly tested, as well as (ii) Chemical Reaction Engineering: fundamental and process investigations of technical reaction control and reactor designs with an emphasis on heterogeneous catalysis engineering, micro reaction engineering, and electrochemical reaction engineering.