Projects

Summary

The European Green Deal directives endorse the development of new renewable energy concepts using non-toxic materials with low environmental impact and low greenhouse gas emissions. To meet this goal, RENEW-PV brings together leading and pioneering academic and industry researchers from across Europe and worldwide, targeting to pool current and stimulate further research development and deployment of emerging inorganic chalcogenide thin-film PV technologies. THE ACTION AIMS to create a research and innovation networking environment that will allow exploiting the high stability, low environmental impact, low carbon footprint, and high technological flexibility potential of emerging inorganic chalcogenide PV technologies. RENEW-PV seeks to consolidate and strengthen the emerging PV ecosystem, providing generation and exchange of knowledge, enhancing creativity and collaboration.

It will deliver a portfolio of technological benchmarking to establish performance indicators defining a technological roadmap for the development of a new type of PV technology capable of producing higher power densities, and with a wider application range than traditional Si-based PV. The challenge to overcome is to bridge the knowledge gaps between different research groups focused on materials and device modeling, thin-film materials and processes development, solar cells engineering, and material and device characterization. RENEW-PV Action will promote research excellence and foster the career development of early-career researchers and doctoral students (following the gender balance principles) through networking, training, mentoring, and integration into PV research collaborations, contributing to jobs creation and re-industrialization of Europe in a low-carbon economy and green society.

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.