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News & Events
Stay up to date with the latest SolMates activities, from research milestones and collaborative events to important steps in our technological development.
This is where you’ll find news, insights, and updates from across the project.
SolMates at Networking Event in Vienna
November 2025
We’re excited to share that Sunplugged’s Martina Harnisch recently presented the SolMates EU Project at the Horizon Europe Cluster 5 „Klima, Energie & Mobilität“ Info and Networking Day in Vienna!
Martina participated in the panel discussion titled „Erfolgsrezepte aus der Praxis“ (Success Recipes from Practice) where she shared valuable insights on our project’s successful implementation.
The networking event took place at the Festsaal des BMIMI in Vienna. You can find more details about the event here.
SOLMATES AT PVSEC IN BILBAO
September 2025
For the first time ever, the SolMates project took part in the prestigious EU PVSEC Conference, the largest international event for photovoltaic research, technologies, and applications.
At the 2025 edition in Bilbao, Spain, SolMates was present at the exhibition to showcase the first hands-on samples of tailor-made, flexible PV modules and to demonstrate the potential of tandem solar devices.
TAKE THE SURVEY
Our new Societal Acceptance Survey aims to assess the social acceptance and willingness to implement sustainable energy solutions.
This survey is anonymous and takes approximately 7-8 min to complete.
FORGING NEW CONNECTIONS
The clustering meeting on perovskite PV technology took place in January 2025 at the CINEA facilities in Brussels.
The workshop brought together 17 of CINEA’s Horizon Europe energy projects, all of them focused on perovskite PV technology and addressing single junction cells and modules, tandems, different market applications, etc., across the TRL scale.
Topics:
– potential and challenges of the Technology
– recent market advances
– vision towards commercialization of the Technology
SOLMATES AT FUTUREPV WORKSHOP
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
20th–22nd of May 2025
Future-Proofing Perovskite PV:
Innovations in Upscaling, Reliability, and Circularity
The FuturePV Workshop 2025 successfully brought together the expertise and latest research results of 14 European research projects from across the continent.
> Find out more about the workshop
Topics:
– Technology Upscaling and Industrialisation
– Tandem Architecture Optimisation
– Measurement Protocols for Metastable Devices
– Long-Term Stability, Field Reliability and Performance
– Circularity and Life-Cycle Analysis
PROJECT KICK-OFF
The kickoff meeting for SolMates went down in Innsbruck! Discussions were buzzing as we charted our first steps and crafted a roadmap for the future of SolMates. Get ready to witness innovation and collaboration.
WE ARE ON LINKEDIN
We want to use the potential of social media and grow our network. For this reason we are now on LinkedIn! Follow us and look forward to exciting articles and fascinating insights.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
