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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 solar cell and other 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 solar cells technology capable of producing higher power densities, and with a wider application range than traditional Si-based solar cells. 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.

Ilia State University Professor – Avtandil Tavkhelidze has been nominated and appointed as a member of the COST RENEW-PV Management Committee and will participate in the action as a researcher in one of the seven working groups.

The COST Consortium RENEW-PV programme is coordinated by Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) with the following members of the management committee: Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Central Laboratory of Solar Energy and New Energy Sources (Bulgaria), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria), Institut Rudjer Boskovic (Croatia), University of Cyprus (Cyprus), Ilia State University (Georgia), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Germany), Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany), Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) (Israel), University of Verona (Italy), Institute of Solid State Physics of University of Latvia (Latvia), Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University Ss. Cyril and Methodius (North Macedonia), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), Lodz University of Technology (Poland), Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Faculty of Sciences and Technology DCM-FCT-UNL (Portugal), Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences (Serbia), Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), IREC: Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (Spain), National Renewable Energy Center (Spain), Uppsala University (Sweden), University of Liverpool (UK), and University of York (UK)

The Action starts on October 6, 2022 with four years of funding and collaboration ending in 2026.

For more information, visit the project website: https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21148/

2022