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SolarHub is a perfect blend of Quadruple Helix collaboration in practice to create an Excellence Hub. Through linking academia, businesses, governments, and civil societies, SolarHub a four-year project with 21 partners from funded under the Horizon Europe WIDERA Excellence Hub call. The SolarHub consortium came to effect in January 2023 aiming to interconnect and scale-up five solar energy innovation ecosystems located in Ankara, Thessaloniki, İzmir, Athens and İstanbul standing by a mantra of accelerating the Clean Energy Transition and the Green Deal initiative. Thanks to the diverse structure derived the quadruple helix formation, this Greek-Turkish Solar Energy Excellence Hub takes on the challenge of aligning concrete and co-developed solutions for clean and secure energy and food supplies.

The EU-funded project promises to provide extra problem-solving capacity tackling complex societal problems which cannot be happening with induvial organizations alone. Expertise and value-driven approach coming from quadruple-helix collaboration will deliver the pathways to innovation-driven green economic growth and facilitation of job creation mainly in solar domain. These impacts will be supported by the project's R&I solution framework, including four diverse pre-designs for solar energy solutions targeting the agro-food sector and with straightforward extensions to other sectors too. Over the lifespan of the project, Greek and Turkish partners, German and Irish partners, are to heighten the development of the Excellence Hub for EU Solar Energy by means of utilizing green deal-driven innovative technologies, training modalities, management, communications, and dissemination strategies.

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To achieve these objectives
A diverse and complementary set of measures are proposed that include;