Project description
‘Brain circulation’ fosters innovation in solar energy harvesting
Significant advances in the areas of nanofabrication techniques and nanophotonics create exciting opportunities for solar energy harvesting applications. The EU-funded APPROACH project aims to accelerate innovation with cross-sectoral talent circulation and collaboration between academia and the business sector. It will focus on post-academic training and professional development of young researchers and innovators in nanofabricated materials and methods for solar energy harvesting. The project will rely on global leaders in the field to support training and hands-on experience, well-designed research activities and potential commercial valorisation of innovations. Exchange of young innovators and world-class experts will be foundational, helping to establish young researchers from ‘widening’ countries as leaders in the development of advanced photonic processes for innovative solar energy harvesting technologies.
Objective
APPROACH is a multi-stakeholder project, aiming at democratizing the opportunity for post-academic training and professional development of young researchers and innovators. APPROACH is a partnership that will enable the enhancement of talents’ inventive thinking and creative knowledge in the development of nanofabricated materials and methods for solar energy harvesting applications. It will contribute to the growth of diversity of backgrounds, talents and motives of job expectations while will allow scientific knowledge advances through interaction and exchange of views. APPROACH’s basis of sustainable development has four dimensions merit attention: a) Placing knowledge, including high-level scientific knowledge, at the service of development, b) Converting knowledge, in all its forms, into value via applications and impact assessment and c) Sharing good practice, to ensure widespread benefits and d) importantly, apply a holistic talent development approach. Moreover, APPROACH aims to push forward the application and potential exploitation/valorization of the FORTH, UPOL PDOT, NoviNano and TSNUK know-how, through strong collaboration and well-designed research activities among the partners. Top-class experts in the field of applied research and talent development, like IMEC, Solaronix and VAMK will provide training courses, as well as hands-on experience and on-demand training to young researchers originating from these widening countries. Exchange of both young researchers and top-class experts is crucial for the successful realization of the proposal’s objectives. As an end product, this collaboration will set the widening partners as players of excellence in the development of advanced photonic processes for novel solar energy harvesting technologies.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence
MAIN PROGRAMME
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HORIZON.4.1.5 - Fostering brain circulation of researchers and excellence initiatives
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-03
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