From the beginning of the project to the end of the action we have worked in six workpackages performing the activities and achieving the results mentioned below:
WP 1.Open Science Coordination
Within this workpackage we have set a Social Advisory Board that has assessed the quality of our work during the whole project. In addition, we have carried the work of understanding the main concerns of researchers towards the adoption of Open Science and have developed proper actions to address them; for instance: preparing ad-hoc training courses and editing the Open Science guide for researchers. The guide was openly peer reviewed by more than 80 experts and it is fully available at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4762618(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre). Within this WP we also carried out the work to come up with a novel citizen science initiative. As a result, generationsolar.eu was created.
WP 2. Ageing and Reparation of PV modules.
By involving more than 100 PV facilities from the society we have been able to analyze how real aging and degradation occurs in photovoltaics modules. In addition, we have been able to observe the type of defects appearing in the installations enabling in-situ solutions for repairing them and enabling circular economy. Thanks to such society engagement we have demonstrated how science can be done together with citizens, and produce results that could not be obtained otherwise. As main result of this workpackage we produced five Video Tutorials about how to repair defects of PV modules
https://short.upm.es/la47h(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) and we analyzed in the public document “Deliverable 2.2” how applying these solutions in the region of Andalucía (Spain) could impact from an economic point of view.
WP 3. PV irrigation solutions for Large Irrigator Communities using high voltage pumps
Here engaging with all stakeholders of the irrigation sector was needed to reach an agreement on the most timely an adequate technical solution. It was interesting to note how preconceived ideas must be tested against reality to see how geographical location or the stakeholders group can define the properties and qualities of an innovation. Lessons learnt on engagement have been really interesting and have been collected in D3.1. Within GRECO we set the requested technical solutions by the majority of southern farmers and a 360º video was shot as a showroom of the technology
https://short.upm.es/xxyxd(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre).
WP 4. High Penetration of Photovoltaics.
This workpackage has dealt with those technical innovations that are still not on the market to demonstrate how citizens and civil society can be engaged and also to explore the use of tools that facilitates the promotion of Open Science, such as open software or open notebooks. Some of the results produced include: A document with the results obtained from the public dialogues with more than 100 stakeholders from 6 countries on the future perspectives of PV innovations
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3554901(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) a new PV technology for achieving high efficiency and, a collaborative open database on the physical properties of some interesting novel materials for the solar sector which are the perovskites.
WP 5. Communication, dissemination and exploitation coordination.
Exploitation, dissemination and communication activities are crucial to ensure that GRECO project concept, activities and results are shared with and understood by relevant stakeholders in a clear and consistent manner. The interested reader can check the public deliverable 5.4 on the communication, dissemination and exploitation actions to understand all the actions we have performed to give a proper impact to our 80 generated results. The community set in ZENODO is a repository of all our activity:
https://zenodo.org/communities/greco-787289/(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)WP 6. Management of the Consortium
The WP6 has dealt with the overall project management of the project with the goal of ensuring the accomplishment of the project objectives on time, under budget and at the highest quality.
WP7. Ethics
Within this WP we have managed all the ethics requirements of a project involving third parties’ engagement, personal data and third countries.
