Consortium

As the coordinator of HEPAFLEX, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) oversees the project’s strategic direction, administrative management, and progress monitoring. CSIC also leads the dissemination, exploitation, and communication activities, ensuring that the project outcomes reach scientific, industrial, and public audiences.

UVEG plays a central role in HEPAFLEX by developing flexible inorganic interfaces and advanced optoelectronic monitoring protocols. The team provides crucial insight into interfacial stability and degradation pathways using photoluminescence and photoemission spectroscopy, while also coordinating project risk assessment and management tools.

SAULE Technologies is a Poland-based pioneer in the commercialization of perovskite solar cells, with a strong industrial focus on scalable and cost-efficient manufacturing. Within HEPAFLEX, SAULE leads the upscaling of flexible perovskite devices using rapid, green-compatible deposition and annealing technologies, aiming to bring high-efficiency large-area solar modules closer to market readiness.

A key partner in sustainable innovation, UJI leads the work on recycling strategies and environmental impact assessment within HEPAFLEX. UJI develops methodologies for life cycle assessment (LCA), critical material recovery, and Pb-sequestration analysis, ensuring the circularity and ecological viability of the project’s photovoltaic technologies.

BGU brings deep expertise in material stability and failure mechanisms. Within HEPAFLEX, BGU coordinates studies on intrinsic and operational degradation of perovskite solar modules, both in lab and real-world environments, aiming to enhance device lifetimes through robust characterization and predictive modeling.

Solaveni GmbH is a Germany-based, innovation-driven company specializing in the development and scalable production of high-purity halide materials and nanoparticle dispersions for advanced optoelectronic applications, including perovskite-based solar technologies. The company combines industrial expertise with advanced chemical engineering to enable sustainable manufacturing routes, green solvent systems, and material circularity. Solaveni actively contributes to several Horizon Europe projects, focusing on environmentally friendly processes, recycling strategies, and the industrialization of perovskite-related technologies.

The Barad group from the Bar-Ilan University focuses on new materials for energy applications. The group develops various layers, including absorber layers, selective contacts, and electrical contacts, using physical vapor deposition methods. The employed methods are high-throughput, leading to large area samples with similarly developed characterization tools, to optimize homogeneity and explore trends in materials and their photovoltaic activity.

The Group of Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors at Kaunas University of Technology focuses on research efforts towards improvement and scalability of materials, particularly on development and characterisation of organic passivation and charge transport materials.

A Spanish applied innovation engineering firm, specialized in supporting R&D, industrial and technology-based projects with a multidisciplinary approach. LOMARTOV leads cost and social sustainability assessments of HEPAFLEX, including LCC, sLCA, and societal readiness using RRI. It supports regulatory alignment, risk mitigation, and contributes to circular economy strategies and business models for scalable industrial deployment.

GE4A Group B.V., a leader in end-of-life (EoL) management for photovoltaic systems, contributes to the HEPAFLEX project with the primary goal of developing and validating a novel flexible, reusable and recyclable encapsulation solution for PV modules. This innovation aims to boost the reuse potential of decommissioned panels from emerging technologies and advance circularity in the solar energy sector.

EPFL contributes cutting-edge expertise in photonic processing and hybrid encapsulation techniques for perovskite solar cells. In HEPAFLEX, EPFL leads the development of high-efficiency functional devices through green photonic annealing and advanced multilayer encapsulation, enabling durable and scalable flexible photovoltaics.