A pilot project is characterised by the construction, operation and development of an installation or a significant part of an installation on an appropriate scale and using suitably large components with a view to examining the potential for putting theoretical or laboratory results into practice and/or increasing the reliability of the technical and economic data needed to progress to the demonstration stage, and in certain cases to the industrial and/or commercial stage.
Pilotni projekt zajema konstrukcijo, delovanje in razvoj naprave ali njenega bistvenega dela v ustreznem merilu in ob uporabi sestavnih delov primerne velikosti zaradi preverjanja možnosti prenosa teoretičnih ali laboratorijskih rezultatov v prakso in/ali povečanja zanesljivosti tehničnih in ekonomskih podatkov, potrebnih za prehod na demonstracijsko stopnjo, v določenih primerih pa na industrijsko in/ali komercialno stopnjo.