SolarHub is funded by the EU under the Horizon Europe Programme (Grant agreement ID: 101086110).
The SolarHub Project is strategically designed to strengthen collaboration and foster energy innovation centers by bridging the solar energy ecosystems of Greece and Türkiye. With a strategic vision in mind, the project aims to leverage five strategically selected Greek and Turkish solar energy innovation ecosystems with a vision of housing an Excellence Hub dedicated to Solar Energy applications in line with the Clean Energy Transition and Green Deal in Europe. The consortium embodies a quadruple helix module, encompassing the synergistic collaboration of business, academia, public institutions, and societal actors in order to integrate the entire value-added chain and forging crucial links with national, EU, and global value chains.
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.
Objectives
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:
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Co-develop a Hub Strategy and a Joint Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda
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Execute a diverse set of complementary interventions, engaging all players of the quadruple helix to support R&I and accelerate commercialization
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Implement joint R&I activities to co-develop 4 pre-designs of diverse solar energy solutions
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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
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Creation of relevant R& I strategies & policies
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Networking between SolarHub & stakeholders
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Multi-level engagement & training
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Combination of R&I infrastructures for synergies
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Creation of targeted joint programmes and linkages between the 2 countries based on sound technological solutions
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Communicating the above to all major stakeholders in the targeted regions
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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.