Warsaw, October 9, 2025 — The EU-funded project SUNGATE marked another year of progress and collaboration during its 4th General Assembly and Executive Board meeting, held at the Centre of New Technologies (CeNT) of the University of Warsaw (UWA). The event brought together project partners to discuss recent achievements and set priorities for the next phase toward developing a novel, circular, sustainable, and cost-efficient bio-hybrid technology for the scalable production of solar fuels.
The meeting opened with a warm welcome from Prof. Joana Kargul, head of the Solar Fuels Laboratory at UWA, whose team hosted the event. Prof. Stefan Schillberg, project coordinator from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, provided an overview of the project’s progress and chaired the scientific discussion.
Throughout the day, the consortium reviewed progress across all work packages, covering technical design and validation, anodic and cathodic half-cell development, integration of full-cell devices, prototype scale-up, as well as dissemination, exploitation, and communication activities to strengthen SUNGATE’s scientific and societal impact.
A key highlight was a workshop on reactor design, where partners from Ghent University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM presented and demonstrated different variants of the reactor and their assembly.
During the final Executive Board session, chaired by Prof. Stefan Schillberg, the consortium summarized key achievements and defined strategic priorities for the next project phase. The meeting concluded with a guided tour of the Solar Fuels Laboratory led by Prof. Kargul, offering participants direct insight into UWA’s advanced research infrastructure and ongoing work on related research subjects.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101122061.