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Being a project strongly focused on integrating Europe's Research Infrastructures (RIs), ERIGrid 2.0 recognises the importance of connecting and networking with other actors. ERIGrid 2.0 consortium members are involved in other relevant projects and networks. This supports the project's objective to establish new connections and continue previous collaborations. In the current report, a number of collaboration activities of the ERIGrid 2.0 project are presented. The focus areas of these collaboration activities cover the entire scope of ERIGrid 2.0 research topics. Reported here are joint current or potential activities with projects, both national and international, as well as networks and platforms. Having collaborators on both international and national levels allows ERIGrid 2.0 to reach out to a broader audience. Several of the collaboration links were established during the predecessor project ERIGrid. With initial activities set up during the first project year, the project aims to intensify joint efforts in the next project years. Impacted by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)related regulations, the ERIGrid 2.0 collaboration activities will have virtual focus and format until further notice.

This document provides a plan for the communication and dissemination of the ERIGrid 2.0 project activities and cooperation with project stakeholders. As a project with significant focus on the audience involvement due to its Research Infrastructures (RI) access opportunities, educational and knowledge transfer activities, ERIGrid 2.0 must ensure engagement with certain target groups. Among these major target groups are: industry professionals, researchers and academics, relevant research initiatives and networks, Master and PhD students. The strategic plan makes clear the added value delivered by ERIGrid 2.0 to each of these groups. Correspondingly, the most appropriate channels for the promotion and dissemination are identified in each case. Furthermore, this plan details the aspect of communication with the already established stakeholders and the potential new ones. It provides guidelines to the project partners regarding the dissemination and stakeholder engagement. Included in this strategic plan is also an overview of the relevant reports and milestones to be delivered. Upon providing the strategy for communication, dissemination and collaboration, the document moves on to the visual identity and elaborates the project marketing materials and tools used for project promotion. Adopting consistent visual identity in the project contributes to successful promotion. The marketing materials provided are: press releases, flyer, poster, and the presentation template. The tools and platforms used in the project and elaborated in this document are: website, newsletter, and social media. In the conclusion of the document it is emphasised that the focus of the strategic communication plan is the engagement with the target audience in order to reach the project objectives. Therefore, the consortium shall invest significant joint effort in communication, dissemination and collaboration. However, facing the impacts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID19) as an unprecedented global crisis, the consortium must respond accordingly to the changed situation. We are all experiencing a disruption of our routines of daily life and work, partly general travel bans have been issued by our employers. Thus, in an approach of shared responsibility and solidarity, wishing that all partners and stakeholders of the project can stay safe, the ERIGrid 2.0 consortium wants to stay productive in the sense of reaching the project targets and fulfilling the tasks according to the time schedule. Therefore, we will have to adopt alternative communication patterns and channels to cope with the new situation. Most of the present and upcoming meetings and other activities like trainings will be organised on a virtual basis, and research collaboration will be strengthened via existing platforms like MS Teams, GoToWebinar, ResearchGate, etc. Since the ERIGrid 2.0 partners are familiar with using electronic collaboration tools and holding remote presentations, it can be expected that the activities of the project will proceed as planned.&nbsp

The integration of renewable energy resources - as key enablers for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions into the power systems - has increased over the past years and led to higher complexity of electric power systems. The increased availability of advanced automation and communication technology, along with novel intelligent solutions for system operation has transformed the traditional power system into a cyber-physical energy system - a smart grid. Research activities so far have mainly focused on validating certain aspects of the smart grid. However, a holistic and integrated approach for analysing and evaluating such complex system has not been developed yet. The ERIGrid project aimed to support the technology development and rollout of smart grid approaches, solutions and concepts in Europe by addressing the aspect of system validation for smart grids and developing common methods, concepts and procedures by integrating eighteen European research centres and institutions with outstanding research infrastructures. We are proud to present hereafter an executive summary of the main developments, achievements, and results of the project.

This chapter provides a brief overview of modelling and simulation approaches for smart grid systems. A special focus is put onto the coupling of simulation environments; i.e., the co-simulation of power systems and its components. Furthermore, selected implementations of standardized interfaces for domain simulators covering the domains of power systems and ICT are presented.

Overview of the ERIGrid validation and testing services during the poster session of the 8th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources (IRED), Vienna, Austria.

The integration of renewable energy resources - as key enablers for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions into the power systems - has increased over the past years and led to higher complexity of electric power systems. The increased availability of advanced automation and communication technology, along with novel intelligent solutions for system operation has transformed the traditional power system into a cyber-physical energy system - a smart grid. Research activities so far have mainly focused on validating certain aspects of the smart grid. However, a holistic and integrated approach for analysing and evaluating such complex system has not been developed yet. The ERIGrid project aimed to support the technology development and rollout of smart grid approaches, solutions and concepts in Europe by addressing the aspect of system validation for smart grids and developing common methods, concepts and procedures by integrating eighteen European research centres and institutions with outstanding research infrastructures. We are proud to present hereafter an executive summary of the main developments, achievements, and results of the project.

Overview of the ERIGrid validation and testing services during the poster session of the 8th International Conference on Integration of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources (IRED), Vienna, Austria.

The importance of using real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop techniques for the domain of power and energy systems is covered by this chapter. A brief overview of the main concepts is provided as well as a method for their integration into a holistic validation framework for testing smart grid systems. Also, corresponding reference implementations are outlined.

This chapter deals with the coupling of smart grid laboratories for joint experiments. Therefore, various possibilities are outlined and a reference implementation is introduced. Finally, the vision of a distributed, virtual research infrastructure is presented.