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September 25, 2026
Thank you to everyone who joined the SHINE PV ร EMPOWER Horizon Europe Project joint session at EU PVSEC 2026, what a discussion!
Industry players, research institutes and technology developers came together to talk about one shared goal: how European stakeholders can collaborate to accelerate innovation, strengthen manufacturing capabilities and reinforce Europe’s competitiveness in photovoltaics.
Key takeaways:
๐ก Innovation isnโt the bottleneck, industrial scale-up is.
๐ค Collaboration is imperative. Tighter links across industry, research, and policymakers are essential to de-risk investments and accelerate innovation.
๐ญ Conditions for scale-up matter. Coordinated value-chain investment and market frameworks are key to moving from pilots to competitive, high-volume manufacturing.
A huge thank you to everyone who made it happen:
๐๏ธOur moderator Delfina Muรฑoz (CEA-Liten) for opening the session and framing the industrial challenges ahead.
โ๏ธ Our technical speakers, who brought a sharp industrial perspective in just 5 minutes: Helge Malmbekk (Institute for Energy Technology, Dr. Marco Galiazzo (Applied Materials), Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Pospischil (HighLine Technology GmbH) / Mehdi Sahli (VOLTEC SOLAR)
๐ค Our panelists, who dove deep into PV value chain, bottlenecks and market conditions: Dr. Oliver Schultz-Wittmann (Holosolis), Dr.-Ing. Florian Clement (Fraunhofer-Institut fรผr Solare Energiesysteme ISE), Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Pospischil (HighLine Technology GmbH), Dra. Skirmantฤ Baleลพentienฤ (Metsolar EU – Custom Solar Solutions), Mehdi Sahli (VOLTEC SOLAR)
๐น And of course, everyone in the audience who joined the Q&A and kept the lively discussion going right to the end.
๐ What’s next?
The event’s insights (plus survey) will contribute to a joint EMPOWERโSHINE PV policy paper on European PV manufacturing for all EU stakeholders.
โ๏ธStay tuned!
