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Op zondagmiddag 2 oktober a.s. leidt de Belgische wetenschapsjournalist, presentator en comedian Lieven Scheire een openbare vraag- en antwoordsessie over wetenschap en energie tijdens de open dag van het Nederlandse instituut voor energieonderzoek DIFFER. Lieven wordt bijgestaan door solar fuels-expert Richard van de Sanden en kernfusie-expert Marco de Baar van DIFFER.

Research teams at DIFFER have been awarded two of the eight research grants in the NWO programme Solar to Products. This 4.2 million Euro programme aims to stimulate joint public-private research into transforming sustainable energy into chemical bonds.

Forty international high school students visited DIFFER on August 30th as part of the Young Brainport Summer School.

PhD candidate Fiona Elam (part of the collaboration DIFFER-FUJIFILM-TU/e) won one of two presentation prizes at the July Gordon Research Seminar on Plasma Processing Science. Her talk covered a fast and efficient way to create high quality encapsulation films for flexible solar cells using a plasma environment.

Buildings, transportation, industry, ICT, consumer behaviour, energy storage, solar / wind / bio energy, CO2 capture and storage, and more. The transition to a sustainable and secure energy supply is one of the grand global challenges for society this century.