text: For the proposed High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) at FAIR, it is foreseen to install an electron cooling device with a beam current of 3 A and a beam energy of 8 MeV. A test set-up was built at Helmholtz-Insitut Mainz (HIM) to conduct a feasibility study. One of the main goals of the test set-up is to evaluate the gun design proposed by TSL (Uppsala) with respect to vacuum handling, EM fields and the resulting beam parameters. Another purpose of the set-up is to achieve an energy recuperation efficiency of 1 - 10-5. To measure this quantity, a Wien filter has to be employed, which will also prove capable of mitigating collection losses. The current status of the project will be presented.