On October 8th 2024, the 2nd General Assembly and Executive Board meeting of the EU-funded project SUNGATE took place at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ-CERCA). The event brought together key stakeholders, including project partners and advisory board members to discuss the progress and future direction of the project aiming to develop a novel, circular, sustainable and cost-efficient bio-hybrid technology to achieve the highly-efficient scalable production of solar fuels.
The event started with a welcome from ICIQ group leader Prof. Antoni Llobet, whose research group is involved in the project. Then, the project coordinator Prof. Stefan Schillberg from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME) gave a short project overview and introduced the Advisory Board members, who provided valuable input throughout the day.
The different sessions provided an in-depth update on the project’s progress across various work packages (WPs), including management, technical specifications and design validation, anodic half-cell, cathodic half-cell, rational design of full-cell devices, prototype scale-up as well as dissemination, exploitation, and communication to enhance the project’s visibility and impact.
A highlight of the day was the Advisory Board Session, where board members provided feedback on project results and offered strategic input to guide the upcoming phases. Prof. Stefan Schillberg closed the meeting emphasizing the project’s progress and setting priorities for the future work acknowledging the contributions of the Advisory Board.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101122061.