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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Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe

The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.