PECATHS is a 4-year Horizon Research and Innovation project that brings together 7 partners from four European countries (Spain, Ireland, Switzerland and Belgium).
This diversity, in terms of organisation types and geographic location, ensures that the project results will reach different communities and countries and can contribute with complementary views and approaches.
The Universitat Jaume I of Castellón de la Plana is a public university, created in 1991 and which currently has around 15,000 students.
The Universitat Jaume I is a pioneer in the use of new information technologies, it was the first Spanish institution to have a web server.
The UJI has become a pioneering university in the implementation of multimedia education with the installation, in all its classrooms, of integrated computer and audiovisual equipment to improve the teaching and learning process.
The Research Institute of Advanced Materials is a center of research in interdisciplinary science and technology in the fields of physics, chemistry, and related fields, applied to advanced materials
Trinity College Dublin (TCD), established in 1592, provides a top-tier education, enabling students to engage at the highest academic level alongside leading experts in their fields. Recognized globally as Ireland’s foremost university, TCD is ranked 87th in the world according to the QS World University Rankings 2025. With a diverse student body of 18,000 undergraduates and postgraduates across disciplines such as arts and humanities, business, law, STEM, and health sciences, it also holds the #31 position among the ‘Most International Universities’ (Times Higher Education 2024). As a distinguished member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), TCD has earned an Athena SWAN Silver Award for advancing gender equality in higher education. The university has a strong track record in securing research funding, particularly from EU programs, having secured over €150 million through Horizon 2020.
The Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), is a non-profit international research institute located close to Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). It is devoted to generating knowledge, materials and devices in ICT, health, energy and the environment. The ICN2’s expertise lies at the nanoscale, where new properties, interactions, and ways to exploit them in everyday life are being discovered. Among its goals is to bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds in the pursuit of better science, better training, and better outreach to society while also seeking out new ways to engage with local and global industry.
CIC energiGUNE is a Basque energy research center specialized in electrochemical energy storage, thermal energy storage and conversion and hydrogen technologies, that aims to generate disruptive scientific knowledge in materials and technological solutions related to energy, and contributing to improve industry competitiveness and sustainable development.
The center, a member of the Basque Research & Technology Alliance-BRTA, is a strategic initiative of the Basque Government, and is also supported by the Provincial Council of Alava and the Basque Energy Agency.
European Innovation Marketplace is a non-profit association based in Belgium, constituted to vertebrate a network of senior scientific esearchers and innovation experts with a consolidated track record in R&D and Innovation projects at EU level. EIM targets its work on emerging and disrupting deep tech concepts that will tailor the mid-term future and paves the way towards a solid upscaling of European technologies by providing senior skills in Exploitation strategy and dissemination Networking.
Comet G.I. is a private entity specialising in technological innovation based in Barcelona, Spain.
One of Comet G.I.’s main missions is managing, communicating, and disseminating R&D&i projects and effectively commercialising projects and initiatives financed by the local, national, or European public and private sectors.
Comet G.I. is led by a team of highly qualified experts in their areas of knowledge, with more than 25 years of experience developing advanced research projects aimed at achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) framed in the 2030 Agenda.
The University of Zurich (UZH) is Switzerland’s largest and one of its leading research universities, offering a wide range of programs across seven faculties. Known for excellence in research and teaching, UZH fosters innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. With a strong international network, state-of-the-art facilities, and a commitment to societal impact, it plays a key role in advancing knowledge across various fields
This is part of the project that has received funding from the European Commission Horizon Europe Programme under Grant Agreement No.101191948.
This work is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract No. 24.00543.
