Project description
Solar energy innovation in the spotlight
Renewable energy plays a big role in combatting climate change. Solar energy innovation ecosystems are important. In this context, the EU-funded SolarHub project will strengthen connections between five Greek and Turkish solar energy innovation ecosystems. Specifically, it will co-develop a Hub Strategy and a Joint Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. By implementing a diverse set of complementary interventions, it will engage industry, government, research institutes and the public to support research and accelerate commercialisation. The project will also implement joint research activities and develop four pre-designs of diverse solar energy solutions. To maximise its impact, SolarHub will create relevant research strategies, networking and training opportunities for stakeholders, and promote synergies between research infrastructures.
Objective
SolarHub’s overall objective is to strengthen connections between and scale-up 5 Greek and Turkish solar energy innovation ecosystems as a single, hybrid, cross-border, and interconnected Solar Energy Excellence Hub with an emphasis on agriculture applications.
SolarHub's 4 Specific Objectives (SOs) are explicitly framed by the call's 5 Core Components and target the call's Expected Outcomes and the destinations Expected Impacts. These SOs are to:
1. Co-develop a Hub Strategy and a Joint Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda
2. Execute a diverse set of complementary interventions, engaging all players of the quadruple helix to support R&I and accelerate commercialization
3. Implement joint R&I activities to co-develop 4 pre-designs of diverse solar energy solutions
4. Maximize the project’s impacts through Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication activities carefully tuned to actively engage all players of the quadruple helix
To achieve these objectives, a diverse and complementary set of measures are proposed that include
1. Creation of relevant R& I strategies & policies
2. Networking between SolarHub & stakeholders
3. Multi-level engagement & training
4. Combination of R&I infrastructures for synergies
5. Creation of targeted joint programmes and linkages between the 2 countries based on sound technological solutions
6. Communicating the above to all major stakeholders in the targeted regions
7. Exploiting the positive results from all the above to setup a sustainable collaborative initiative after the end of the project.
SolarHub's consortium contains 21 partners (7 Academic, 9 Business, 3 Public Authorities, and 2 Societal Actors) that are well-balanced between Academia and Business, and fully completes the quadruple helix. SolarHub is a 4 year project with 5 carefully designed Work Packages that efficiently exploit the consortium's diverse knowledge and expertise to develop Green solutions to today's Societal Challenges.
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06800 Ankara
Türkiye
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Participants (19)
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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19009 Pikermi
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35100 İzmir
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06800 Ankara
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34469 Maslak, Istanbul
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51147 Koln
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06680 Cankaya Ankara
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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06909 ANKARA
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57001 THESSALONIKI
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32009 TANAGRA
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42050 Karatay
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591 00 VEROIA
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34788 Istanbul
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18 Dublin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
06100 Ankara
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54655 Thessaloniki
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45332 ILIOUPOLIS ATHINA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
06000 Ankara
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
06830 Ankara
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