ERA Chair in Organic Electronics at the Silesian University of Technology

18 September 2020

Intelligentsia Consultants are proud to have supported the Silesian University of Technology (SUT) to win a prestigious ERA Chair in Organic Electronics with the Horizon 2020 funded ExCEED project.

Organic electronics represents a hi-tech and rapidly expanding market covering displays, lighting, photovoltaics, and integrated smart systems. In a strategic effort to further develop science and innovation in this domain in the Silesia region and Poland, the ExCEED project aims to recruit an outstanding researcher and manager to be the ERA Chair Holder as well as recruit experienced researchers for SUT to establish the multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence in Organic Electronics.

Thanks to the 2.5m euro funding provided by the Horizon 2020 Widening programme, the ExCEED project will help bring about the necessary structural development in SUT’s Department of Organic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry and Biotechnology and Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers to combine the competencies of existing research groups in synthesis and characterisation of new organic electroactive materials. This will help foster research excellence in four research sub-topics: Organic Transistors, OLEDs, Organic Solar Cells and Organic Energy Storage Systems.

The five-year project has been officially launched this month.