Strategic Vision on PV Research Infrastructure in Europe

The European FP7 project "SOPHIA" has worked on a Strategic Research Infrastructure Agenda, presenting a listing of existing Research Infrastructure (RI) across the consortium of this project , current trends in access and use of PV RI as well as recommendations for future PV RI, upgrading the capability of EU PV RI. This agenda is targeted at those who make decisions on the allocation of research budgets. It might be taken up by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on RI) in the next update of its roadmap), by presenting a view to set a whole range of multi-purpose RI, addressing the whole PV value chain form the lab to the fab all along the Technological Readiness Level (TRL) scale. It should further enable flexible cooperation and optimal use by European user communities.