From the diverse work for the knowledge and innovation community EIT InnoEnergy in recent years and contacts in the Economics of Energy Systems and Environment working group led by Prof. Ute Karl at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), the ZML was involved at an early stage in the application for the Horizon 2020 project SmILES (SmILES), which is now coordinated by KIT. In the SmILES project with project coordinator Isabelle Südmeyer from the Helmholtz Energy Programme "Storage and Cross-linked Infrastructures" (SCI), electrical and thermal energy networks are simulated in order to optimize the intelligent integration of energy storage systems into local multi-energy systems. The target is to contribute to a higher share of renewable energies in the European energy mix in the long term.

The ZML worked in particular on work package 7 "Communication and publications". The main component was the development and implementation of target group-oriented communication measures, in particular two webinars.

However, the ZML employees were also able to contribute other elements to the external communication of the Helmholtz project. After the start of the project, the team was commissioned to produce an animated explanatory video, banners and a leaflet. By being directly involved in the SmILES project, the ZML team was able to spontaneously recognize needs, offer help and thus directly relieve the project management, i.e. provide a package of services as offered as part of the Science medial service.

Project partners

• EIFER
• SCI

Project pages

• SmILES
• SmILES (KIT)