The Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences (IMP PAN), located in Gdańsk, is a leading centre of scientific technology in Northern Poland. It employs about 212 staff, including 100 researchers. IMP PAN was founded in 1956 for conducting fundamental research in the area of operating principles, design and construction of machines used for energy conversion in flows.

Currently, research is carried out in the following areas: fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, thermodynamics and heat transfer, combustion, plasma physics, laser technology, machine mechanics, mechanics of smart structures, technical diagnostics, tribology, aeroelasticity and other fields of engineering and technical sciences. The research of the Institute has always addressed the current needs of industry. In recent years IMP PAN has developed a new scientific specialisation: small-scale distributed power engineering based on renewable energy sources, especially domestic cogeneration power systems.

KEZO Research Centre (”Energy Conversion and Renewable Resources” Centre), located in Jabłonna near Warsaw, is a laboratory base for IMP PAN in terms of research and cooperation also with other Institutes of Polish Academy of Sciences, universities, R&D units as well as with leading companies in the energy sector. KEZO Research Centre is a complex of laboratories (a facility), but simultaneously it also plays a role of a living laboratory itself, with all of its modern installations onsite in the building itself. Centre is a test-side for devices producing and storing heat, cold and electricity from RES as well as of software for management of generation and consumption of energy technologies, including a dedicated Building Management System designed for research purposes. KEZO also serves as a demonstration site for small-scale RES technologies and their application in energy systems.