EUREC Agency promotes the interests of renewable energy R&D by offering its expertise to advise EU policy-makers on key issues of relevance to the sector. The staff of EUREC Agency are continuously liaising with representatives of the European institutions to serve and promote their members’ interests at the European level.

Recently, EUREC Agency published a report which examines how research can and should contribute to achieve the 2020 targets for renewable energy. As an association of leading European research centres working across the full range of renewable energy technologies, EUREC was able to bring together and summarise the research required in the renewable energy sector in a single valuable publication.

In the past, EUREC Agency organised Research-Industry dialogues for the joint definition and agreement of R&D priorities. Today, EUREC is supporting the development of "Strategic Research Agendas" inside of two EU Technology Platforms - one dedicated to photovoltaics, the other to renewable heating and cooling. EUREC is also represented in other energy-related platforms and fulfils a liaison-function among the different initiatives (e.g. European Industrial Initiatives, European Energy Research Platform, European Institute of Innovation and Technology).

EUREC Agency is also developing its position on the “Research Infrastructures” under FP7, with a view to ensuring that research infrastructures for renewable energy technologies are adequately considered.

In order to promote the quicker and broader update of renewable energy technology innovations by the market, EUREC Agency set up, within the context of the PRORETT project, a technology transfer promotion support group of professionals from research, business-developers and financiers in early 2006.