Gregor Goetzl¹, Cornelia Steiner¹, David Boon², Ignasi Herms i Canellas³, Staša Borović⁴, Jan Holecek⁵, Fernanda Veloso⁶, Sarah Blake⁷, Estelle Petitclerc⁸, Mitja Janza⁹, Alejandro García-Gil¹⁰, Mikael Erlström¹¹, Vincent Vandeweijer¹², Maciej Kłonowski¹³, Radovan Černák¹⁴, Boris Malyuk¹⁵, Claus Ditlefsen¹⁶

¹Geologische Bundesanstalt, Österreich; ²British Geological Survey; ³Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya; ⁴Hrvatski Geološki Institut; ⁵Ceska Geologicka Sluzba; ⁶Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières; ⁷Geological Survey Ireland; ⁸Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences – Geological Survey of Belgium; ⁹Geološki zavod Slovenije; ¹⁰Instituto Geológico y Minero de España; ¹¹Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning; ¹²Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO; ¹³Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy; ¹⁴State Geological Institute of Dionyz Stur; ¹⁵State Research and Development Enterprise State Information Geological Fund of Ukraine; ¹⁶Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

GeoERA-MUSE addresses the management of efficient and sustainable shallow geothermal energy use in European urban areas. On the one hand, more than 75% of the European population lives in urban or suburban areas. On the other hand, shallow geothermal energy, used for heating in combination with cooling and seasonal storage of waste heat has the potential to cover more than 50% of the needed energy for space heating and cooling - even in urban areas.

Bringing these two aspects together, MUSE introduces modern management approaches and instruments to the portfolio of Geological Survey Organizations in Europe, covered under the umbrella of the EuroGeoSurveys organization. Funded by the H2020 GeoERA programme, 16 geological survey organizations from 15 EU member states cooperate for harmonizing methods and strategies for managing shallow geothermal from the point of view of Geological Survey Organizations (GSOs). The topics covered in MUSE comprise setting up joint concepts for modern web based information systems on resources and limitations of use, the screening of the current legal framework as well as introducing novel management concepts like cycled communication and data flow approaches between authorities and users. The commonly developed methods and concepts are tested in 14 different urban pilot areas covering the area between Cork (Ireland) in the west, Girona (Spain) in the south, Linköping (Sweden) in the North and Warsaw (Poland) in the east. As these cities face different climate conditions, different hydrogeological settings and socio-economic frameworks for the use of shallow geothermal, the findings of MUSE are adaptable for most of the European urban regions.

The key outcomes of MUSE will cover digital web map services for all pilot areas, which will published at the European Geodata Infrastructure (EGDI) of EuroGeoSurveys and methodological as well as strategic guidelines how to manage shallow geothermal energy in urban areas and which support GSOs may provide.

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