Next Generation Solar Energy (NGSE) is an international conference series organized by the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN) in December.
This year’s edition (NGSE 11) will be held from 8th to 9th of December 2026 in Nuremberg, at the EnCN building in Fürtherstraße 250. The conference fee will be 100€. On December 10th, there will be a a workshop organized by our spin-off company Sciprios.
Invited Speakers:
Derya Baran, KAUST
Donal Bradley, University of Oxford
Stelios Choulis, Cyprus University of Technology
Vincent M. LeCorre, South Denmark University of Technology
The proceedings of last year's NGSE 10 conference are now available on Zenodo. If you want to find out about the topics that were discussed or just reminisce about the conference, you can find the complete proceedings here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19002376.
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