The European Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Laboratory Infrastructure (ECCSEL) is a distributed Research Infrastructure with the aim to enhance European science, technology development, innovation and education in the field of Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilisation, Transport and Storage (CCUS). Its vision is to enable low to zero CO₂ emissions from industry and power generation to combat climate change. ECCSEL provides coordination, operation, development and open access to world-class CCUS research facilities across Europe, covering the whole CCUS value chain: membranes, integrated CCUS systems, pressure/injection, migration, security/troubleshooting, CO₂ pipeline transport and integrity, shipping of CO₂, smart integrations with carbon capture and re-use into valuable products.

Conceived and included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2008, ECCSEL was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in June 2017 and was acknowledged as ESFRI Landmark in 2018. ECCSEL ERIC is the result of several EU-funded projects that bring together high-quality research facilities in Europe in the field of CCUS. The central coordinating office, the ECCSEL Operations Centre, integrates and coordinates the activities of national partners – Industry, Research Institutes and Universities – across Europe. Over 80 individual research facilities are currently part of the ECCSEL ERIC; they are located in five countries each representing a national node, and are owned by 23 different facility operators. The number of countries, operators and facilities is increasing over time.