Of relevance, 19 peer-reviewed papers have been published in the second reporting period, bringing the total to 22 across the project. Nonetheless, some more publications are underway for the ESRs that are currently finishing their PhD degree, in those institutions that the degree lasts for 4 years. The publications span the different work packages and activities done in the project, covering from synthesis, characterisation and testing of new materials as photocatalysts, computational modelling to understand the reaction mechanisms, development of new photoreactors and key insights on how to establish a solar-to-X market in Europe, with roadmapping activities aligned to other global initiatives such as Mission Innovation..
The ESRs have received extensive training during the project, with the 3 more workshops on Photophysics and Intellectual property management, science policy, public engagement, networking, diversity, inclusion and leadership, and engineering photoelectrochemical devices and entrepeneuship. These workshops were delivered by Solar2Chem partners as well as external experts coming from Europe, US and Australia. For some of the technical topics, ESRs were able to obtain further hands-on training locally at each host organisation. In addition to the training workshops, the ESRs have also organised and delivered a Winter School in Valencia in February 2023, and the Solar2Chem International Conference in Tarragona (Spain) in September 2023, with the participation of world-leading scientists as speakers as well as ca. 100 participants from European organisations, including some from other MSCA-funded actions. The conference was a great success and attendees praise the work of the organising committee for such as high quality event.
Other dissemination activities included the continuation of the Road2GreenChemicals project cluster, initiated as part of the Horizon Booster, with other EU-funded projects such as FlowPhotoChem, Decade, SunCoChem. Participation in other EU Green Week events allow to reach a wide variety of audience, with online webinars having over 200 attendees in total. The ESRs have participated in over 25 conferences to present the findings of their work. As part of the communication activities done through the project website, the newsletters have had an average open rate over 50% but most importantly, the Solar2Chem website has received over 37000 visits over the duration of the project. Looking at social media, the X account has over 1100 followers and have reached an impressive 209000 number of impressions.
