RIANA: Access to large-scale infrastructures for solar-cell research

Research in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology is vital for sustainability globally: advancement in nanoscience and nanotechnology cannot be achieved without using research infrastructures (RI). This is particularly true for solar-cell research: the past years' PVSC Area 5 contributions have shown great and ever increasing interest in large-scale facility characterization techniques based, e.g., on synchrotron radiation. Offering such infrastructure to researchers from all around the world is the main goal of the 14.5 Meuro project RIANA. RIANA encompasses 7 European networks of top-level RIs to cover the most advanced techniques relevant for synthesis, nanofabrication, processing, characterization, analytics, as well as simulation capacity. Highly customized and efficient access to 69 infrastructures is coordinated via a single-entry point and enabled through comprehensive Science and Innovation Service by senior scientists, experts for the transfer of technology from academia to industry, and highly trained Junior Scientists. The Junior Scientist boost RI experience to an entirely new level: they provide customized Science Service supporting users from initial ideas to hands-on experiments, data analysis and dissemination of results to generate the greatest impact from access to world-class RI.