Partnerships

Solar Photovoltaics

Solar Photovoltaics

Partnership website: https://etip-pv.eu/eupi-pv/
The Partnership aims to accelerate solar photovoltaics (PV) research and innovation by coordinating efforts across industry and research centres, supporting the resilience and competitiveness of the European PV value chain, and fostering leadership in PV innovation. The first calls connected to the partnership were integrated in the Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme.

Key objectives of the Solar Photovoltaics Partnership include improved R&I collaboration, development of breakthrough PV technologies, and scaling up next-generation solutions to meet European energy transition and policy targets. 

Timeline & key documents

- In May 2025, the European Partnership for Solar Photovoltaics (EUPI-PV) was formalised in an MoU between the European Technology & Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) and European Commission. Download the MoU on the Partnerships's website: European Partnership for Innovation in Photovoltaics (EUPI-PV) - ETIP PV

- In April 2025, the Partnership published its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). You can find it here

Contact

info@etip-pv.eu

 

What are partnerships?

Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.

How to use partnerships?

  • orientation
    Partnerships publish strategic documents, e.g. outlining the main research and innovation challenges or key focus points.
  • networking
    Partnerships often organise events, such as info days, brokerage events, etc. Meet potential partners and learn about the nuances that are not visible in the official documents.
  • ecosystem analysis
    Partnerships typically have an advisory board, and publish impact studies of previous actions. These are good sources of information to uncover the main R&D&I players in the domain.
  • steering the agenda
    Partnerships collaborate with the EC on outlining the strategy and the future funding opportunities in their domain, based on input from industry, academia, and other stakeholders.
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Professor Lieven Eeckhout’s main research interests include computer architecture and the hardware/software interface with a specific emphasis on performance evaluation and modeling, and dynamic resource management.

Professor Eeckhout is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, Advanced grant and three Proof of Concept grants. Two of his former PhD students founded in 2013 CoScale, a spin-off in data center monitoring, which was acquired by New Relic.