The STRACO2 Project work plan is divided into eight Work Packages (WP) to ensure that all partners work in their area of expertise and at the same time coordinate their work and their results:

1. Total Project Management and Coordination:
Coordinating and finalising the legal, financial and managerial groundwork, creating a stable legal and organisational base for later WPs.
WP-Lead: Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minièrs

2. Stakeholder Consultation and Dissemination:
Communication and visibility tools will be set up to facilitate the cooperation between the different stakeholders. A base for later research will be established by creating an overview of work already done by stakeholders in all relevant fields, including industry, research and regulatory bodies.
WP-Lead: DEVELOPMENT Solutions

3. Safety and Liability:
As safety and liability issues are a major obstacle in implementing CCS projects, research will have to be done to asses necessary regulatory precautions. Existing gaps in research on safety and liability will be established in order to focus research into the areas where it is most needed.
WP-Lead: Netherlands Organisation for Applied science Research TNO

4. Site qualification and certification:
With a broad range of possible sites and certification measures, an overview over existing procedures, systems and certification requirements related to site selection and qualification will be established.
WP-Lead: Bureau Recherches Géologiques et Minièrs

5. Financing of, and economic incentivisation mechanisms for CCS:
To make CCS economically viable and widen its impact, an overview of existing incentivisation mechanisms for CCS will be established. Recommendations for establishing or improving mechanisms can build on experience from similar technologies. Technical and non-technical issues preventing CCS to be included into CDM/EU-ETS will be identified and recommendations be made.
WP-Lead: Mälardalen University

6. Cross-cutting issues:
Important issues of the interrelationship between technology, economic feasibility and regulatory design will have to be established through research. Existing technology standards or the lack of them will have be highlighted. Supportive recommendations for pilot projects will be made.
WP-Lead: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

7. International dimension:
Requirements for a deeper cooperation between the EU and the international level will be established, especially concerning implications for a possible future international framework for CCS. Focus will be on cooperation between China and the EU, and the current situation and needs of CCS research and implementation in China will be established.
WP-Lead: The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21

8. Overall consolidating activities:
Integrating the results of all work packages into a final report will provide recommendations on remaining needs for further developing a regulatory framework for the EU and collaboration on the international level. These recommendations will be publicised.
WP- Lead: DEVELOPMENT Solutions