The AGH University of Krakow (AGH University) is a modern university that actively participates in fostering a knowledge-based society and creating innovative technologies. Our university has a well-established position in the country and is recognised abroad. Experienced staff, advanced laboratories, a unique campus, and, above all, the bonds that connect the AGH University community are our greatest assets.

The thermoelectric group, setup by prof. Wojciechowski is the best in the Poland working on the development of hybrid thermoelectric modules. The main scientific activities of the team concern both the basic research on chemistry and materials science of functional materials, as well as the engineering of thermoelectric devices i.e.: numerical modeling and design of new prototypical thermoelectric modules and generators based on our materials.​

Sungkyunkwan University is a national university with 627 years of glorious history and shining tradition and is a representative symbol of a leading university which leads the new era. At the same time, the university has led the development of higher education in Korea by challenging and innovating with a mind for sharing and coexistence. We strive to newly form our own brand worthy of our name which actively embraces global social issues through pioneering of global management.

SKKU research group have carried out research about development of organic materials and new device architecture for organic light-emitting diodes including device modeling and machine learning.

The University of Mauritius is the national university of Mauritius. It is the oldest and largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and the curriculum offered. The public university’s main campus is located at Réduit, Moka.

The Computational Chemistry Group of the University of Mauritius (CCUoM) is involved in the teaching and research in the field of Computational Chemistry. The research group focuses on the use of computational methods to solve chemistry and interdisciplinary problems.

The University of Montreal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university’s main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit, in the borough of Outremont.

The Department of Chemistry at UdeM is one of the leading academic units in Canada. It enjoys an international reputation thanks to the outstanding quality of its research, faculty and infrastructure.

A number of the Department’s professors also teach and conduct research in chemistry-related disciplines in the departments of Biological Science, Biochemistry and Physics, as well as in the Faculty of Pharmacy and at Polytechnique Montréal, one of the top engineering schools in Canada.

The University of Queensland is a public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone universities, an informal designation of the oldest university in each state.

The Centre for Organic Photonics & Electronics (COPE) at UQ is a foundational hub and comprehensive infrastructure resource in the optoelectronics field within Australia. The Centre’s research and development effort spans theory/computation, the design and synthesis of cutting-edge materials, their subsequent processing, determination of their electronic and photophysical properties, device fabrication and testing, and prototyping.

OIST is an interdisciplinary and international graduate school located in Japan. In 2019 OIST was ranked 1st in Japan and 9th in the world by the Nature Index for the proportion of its research that is published in high-quality science journals when normalised by size (360 unnormalised ranked).

The Kabe Unit explores the optical and electrical properties of organic molecules and their applications for optoelectronic devices. The unit designs and synthesizes new organic molecules based on computational calculations and then discerns their excitonic dynamics. Controlling the exciton dynamics will enable the realization of new optoelectronic devices.

Paul Pascal Research Center is a laboratory of CNRS (French national research center) and the Bordeaux University .

With more than 50 years of experience in physico-chemistry, the laboratory focuses its research on soft matter, functional or molecular materials, bioengineering and biotechnologies. The CRPP is organized into 6 teams bringing together chemists, biochemists, physical chemists and physicists.

The Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (UMR 5031 of CNRS and Univ. Bordeaux) is one of the leading soft matter chemistry institutes in France, with a strong history of and expertise in synthetic and physicochemical liquid crystal and magneto-electro-optics research.

The Institute of Physical Chemistry (IChF) acting under the umbrella of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) is the leading research institution dealing with various aspects of chemistry. IChF has the highest research excellence category among research units in Poland (A+). In 2014 the European Commission granted to IChF the “HR Excellence in Research” award which was renewed in 2020.

The Institute of Physical Chemistry acting under the umbrella of the Polish Academy of Sciences is the leading research institution dealing with various aspects of chemistry. Funded in 1955, is among the best scientific units in Poland, according to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. IPC PAS has the right to use the “HR Excellence in Research” designation that confirms the highest standards in the recruitment of scientists, support in their career development and engagement of the Institute to the society.

IChF hosts multiple interdisciplinary groups that work at the border of chemistry, physics and biology. In such a vibrant environment new ideas are being developed from basic science to applications, including a number of active spin-off companies. Each year, the scientific output of IChF includes more than 200 publications (incl. Nature, Science, JACS etc.) and a number of patents. The Institute is involved in the education of a new generation of scientists. It is home to two PhD schools and MSc students are given the opportunity to work at the frontiers of science via fellowships offered.

Lodz University of Technology was created in 1945 and has developed into one of the biggest technical universities in Poland. Originally located in an old factory building, today it covers nearly 200,000 sq. meters in over 70 separate buildings, the majority of which are situated in the main University area. As of 2018, around 15,000 students studied at the university. The educational and scientific tasks of the university are carried out by about 3,000 staff members.

The Department of Molecular Physics is the leading laboratory in Poland in the field of research on organic electronics for many years and participated in several European projects devoted to organic electronics. Unique Laboratory of Organic Electronics consisting of clean-room facility, 5-chambers line of glove-boxes containing all equipment necessary for organic electronic devices preparation (spin-coater, zone-casting system, vacuum drier, vacuum evaporation chamber, etc) and their characterization (solar-light simulator with AM 1.5 illumination for solar cells, CCD camera for OLEDS, electrometers, etc). System for photogeneration quantum yield determination. Thermoluminescence technique (10 – 330 K) with on-line spectral analysis. Spektrofluorymeter FLS980 with integrating sphere and with microscope. UV-Vis-NIR spectrometer with integrating sphere. Raman Spectrometer with confocal microscope, FT Raman Spectrometer with Ramanscope III microscope. Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Systems. Microscope stages for Thermo-Optical-Analysis with simultaneous DSC. AFM. Profilometer.

DTU is one of Europe’s foremost technical universities with more than 2000 scientific staff members and 1200 PhD students. DTU Energy focuses on education, research and development within functional materials and their application in sustainable energy technologies. Research topics include advanced characterization and development of fuel cells, electrolysis cells, redox flow batteries, next-generation encapsulated batteries, sustainable energy storage materials, as well as computational materials design. Research spans from fundamental investigations to component manufacture and the department places significant focus on industrial collaboration and industrially relevant processes. Professor Piotr de Silva who will be a leader of the group is leading computational research activities in the area of organic charge-transfer materials. He is specialising in the modelling of molecular materials for applications in OLEDs, development of density functional theory methodology, and chemical bonding analysis.

The University of Glasgow has been named Scottish University of the Year 2018 by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
The Skabara group is best known for its ability to synthesise novel organic semiconductors. The materials encompass small to large molecules (up to 8,000 Da), well-defined and monodisperse oligomers and polymers prepared by chemical or electrochemical methods. Highlights of their work include organic lasers with several record-breaking lowest thresholds recorded, materials for LiFi, organic solar cells with highly promising efficiencies for molecular species, and field effect transistors with excellent air stability.

The institute with six research groups under the leadership of six directors is one of the internationally leading research centres in the field of polymer science.

At the MPIP, new soft and macromolecular materials are developed in the fields of biomedicine and electronics. Further focus points are the understanding of physical, chemical and biological phenomena at interfaces as well as the theory of polymers in order to understand their properties and interactions.

The aim of the Molecular Electronics group at MPIP is to exploit the real potential of intrinsic semiconducting materials that will push the field strongly forward. The combination of intrinsic electronic polymer properties with well-defined nanostructures as being developed at MPI-P will provide unique properties that will open a bright future to new applications in electronics such as OLEDs, OPVs and OFETs and biology.

At the Max Institute for Polymer Research, all tools and analysis equipment is available to carry out the project activities in the frame of TADF characterisation. State-of-the-art AFM, TEM, SEM, GIWAXS, light microscopy, as well as spectroscopic tools such as UV-ViS and luminescence (both time-resolved and steady state) is readily available. The Department of Molecular Electronics at MPIP has besides state-of-the art glove-box and cleanroom-fabrication facilities, sample equipment for controlled (and sequential) thin film processing at its disposal. Moreover, MPIP/Molecular Electronics offers state-of-the-art tools for steady state and transient electrical characterization of (luminescent) semiconducting and conducting thin films and devices.

The University of Durham is a member of the prestigious Russel Group and is ranked 5th in the UK (Complete University Guide 2015) and a World 100 University (QS World Rankings 2014). The Department of Physics in Durham is one of the leading physics and astronomy departments in the UK. Professor Monkman’s research group is one of the world’s leading groups for spectroscopic studies of OLED and OPV materials, especially studies of triplet exciton properties in materials and devices

University of Auckland (UoA) is the largest, most comprehensive and highest-ranked university in New Zealand and consistently places among the Top 100 universities in the world by QS World Rankings. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. School of Chemical Sciences (SCS), The University of Auckland, teaches and performs research in chemistry, medicinal chemistry, green chemical science, polymers, food science and nutrition, forensic science, and wine science. It is the largest chemistry department in the country. Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic is Director of the Polymer Biointerface Center at The University of Auckland (a cross-disciplinary research centre spanning three faculties at the University of Auckland; Science, Engineering and Medical and Health Sciences) and a Principal Investigator of the New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence – MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Her research interests are in the field of advanced polymeric materials, including conducting polymers for biosensing and bioelectronics, electrically and environmentally responsive polymers and smart materials for actuators and tissue engineering.

Osaka University is the sixth oldest university in Japan, having originally been founded in 1724. The 63rd best university in the world according to the QS World University Rankings® 2018. The Department of Applied Chemistry at Osaka University is internationally well recognized in the field of all kinds of chemistry including synthetic organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, functional material chemistry, physical organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and applied electrochemistry. The group led by Prof. Takeda is an expert of design, synthesis, and characterization of novel organic p-conjugated functional compounds and polymers for optoelectronic applications.

The Department of Chemistry in National Taiwan University is the leading chemistry  department in Taiwan for the developments of small-molecule materials for OLED and OPV working closely with the leading research groups for organic electronics and Taiwanese OLED companies.

The research groups of UFSC participant of this project are consolidated in the application of new organic molecular or hybrid systems in electronic devices such as OLEDs, OPVs and OFETs. Semiempirical and molecular dynamics techniques are used to study charge and energy transfer in large scale molecular systems.

The Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOC PAS) is an independent, non-profit research establishment governed by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS). In national ratings, the IOC PAS holds the topmost position in the class of scientific institutions involved in organic chemistry research and second position in chemistry research classification. In the international ranking of scientific institutions’ quality, SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), the IOC PAS achieved first place in the category of innovation among scientific institutions in Poland in 2021 (and also in 2022), and fifth position in the overall SIR ranking. The Institute operates the oldest PhD study program of its kind in the country. In its teaching initiatives, the Institute has trained 435 Ph.D. holders and 73 habilitated doctors. Currently, IOC PAS employs ~140 researchers (including ~50 PhD students) forming almost 30 research groups and sub-groups, with several well-known group leaders, and the highest percentage of young group leaders in Poland. The following key discoveries have originated from IOC PAS: vicarious nucleophilic aromatic substitution, monosugar synthesis via Diels-Alder reaction, corrole synthesis, super active catalysts from alkene methathesis reaction and organic synthesis planning using the software program CHEMATICA. Moreover, alumni of the IOC PAS have started several companies such as: OncoArendi and Apeiron Synthesis.