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CRONUS is a HORIZON Research and Innovation project funded by the EU under the call “Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-09”. The project has officially started in December 2022 for a period of 45 months with a budget of 4.39 million euros. CRONUS is coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens and brings together 13 partners coming from 7 European countries: Greece, Denmark, Italy, France, Spain, Slovakia, and Cyprus. CRONUS aims to accelerate on the path to sustainable bioenergy and can play an important and constructive role in achieving the UN SDGs (7,8,9,11,12 and 13) by incorporating in the biofuels production lines carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CUS) techniques promoting the concept of Bioenergy and Carbon capture, utilisation and storage. The latter can stand as a solution to meet the 2021 Glasgow agreement on climate change’s aim of less than 1,5οC and contributes to the phase-out of fossil fuels and the decarbonisation of the EU economy in accordance with European Green Deal goals.

The overall ambition of the CRONUS project is to significantly advance the current state of the art in the area of biofuels production and the utilisation of biogenic effluent gases. CRONUS will introduce effective technologies with high-potential innovations (techno-economic feasible solutions), thus accelerating the green transition and associated transformation of our economy, industry and society with a view to achieving climate neutrality in Europe by 2050.