Upcoming seminars and events
October 27-19: Uppsala University Conference on Carbon Capture & Utilization (CCU)
A Conference on Solar fuels, Electro fuels, CO2 capture & valorization – towards sustainable energy, chemicals and materials
Place: Uppsala University, Ångström laboratory: Heinz-Otto Kreiss Lecture Hall
We invite you to a conference dedicated to advancing research, innovation, and technological implementation in the field of renewable energy and CO2. The event will explore sustainable approaches to CO₂ capture, valorization, and utilization for the production of fossil-free fuels and base chemicals.
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, companies, societal actors and policymakers, interested in CO2-utilization for a sustainable production system in Sweden and in Europe.
The meeting will start at 13.00 on October 27 and end with lunch on October 29, at the Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala.
The sessions will define the state-of-the-art in areas such as CO2 capture materials, electrocatalysis, artificial photosynthesis, CO2 conversion and advanced microbial cell factories, from both corporate and academic viewpoints. Upscaling and implementation strategies in pilot projects, as well as prospects for the future and R&D policy strategies will be discussed. Both oral and poster sessions will be included.
Registration and paying a small fee will be required to attend the meeting.
Watch this space for updates about the programme and registration!
Previous news and events
29 October 2024: Open Workshop by the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis
 | Program: 13:15 Welcome |
October 24 - 26, 2023: Uppsala University conference on Sunlight- and Power-to-X
In collaboration with SUNERGY, CAP organized a conference on research and innovation on sustainable fossil-free fuels and base chemicals, with focus on technologies for direct H2 production and CO2 valorization from renewable energy.
The conference was attended by more than 170 people: researchers, company representatives, policymakers, and other interested parties came together during these three days of presentations aimed at accelerating the development of solar fuels, electro-fuels, and sustainable base chemicals in Sweden and in Europe. There was also a poster exhibition where PhD students and postdocs presented their work.
Read a summary about it on the SUNERGY webpage!
The meeting programme can be downloaded here:
 | Uppsala conference on Solar- & Power-to-X Program Solar&Power-to-X Program final.pdf (330.25KB) |
The CAP workshop, September 27 - 28, 2022: Focusing on our vision
In 2022, on September 27-28, enthusiastic CAP members gathered at Haga Slott in Enköping for two half-days of intense discussions, idea hatching, and visions of the future.
The 2022 edition of the CAP workshop at Haga Slott (Enköping) was a great event!
CAP co-organizer of the Energy Theme day on May 19, 2022
A multidisciplinary theme week took place between 16-20 May on topics in science and technology at the Ångström Laboratory. During this week, current research within AI/Data-driven life science, the Universe and Mathematical Physics, Material, Energy and Climate change was presented by scientists and invited speakers from industry and other parts of society.
CAP co-organized the session on solar energy and solar fuels in the afternoon, with the following contributions:
• Marika Edoff, Uppsala University, Solve: Solelforskningscentrum Sverige - a new excellence centre.
• Solar Power in Sweden: Growth and future prospects
• Per Sundell, Vattenfall: Sustainable aviation fuel from CO2
• Pietro Campana, Mälardalen University: Combining photovoltaics and agriculture to agrivoltaics - sustainable land sharing
• Ellen Moons, Karlstad University: Research for efficient and stable new solar cells
• Leif Hammarström, Uppsala University: Solar fuel, an international overview
• Pia Lindberg, Uppsala University: Gren cell factories, fuels and chemicals from CO2 and solar energy
Chairs Marika Edoff and Peter Lindblad.
SUNERGY Sweden Event
On 20th of April, 2021, 60+ participants joined the SUNERGY online event for Sweden. A dedicated meeting for Sweden that was organized in the run-up to the upcoming calls of the 2021-2022 Horizon Europe work programme and the SUNERGY – CO2 Value Europe joint brokerage event. The meeting was opened by Ann Magnuson, introducing the SUNERGY vision of enabling a fossil-free Europe through research and innovation. The event emphasized the important role that Sweden can play in this with its strong profile in renewable energy R&D.
Watch all the presentations on YouTube:
Soap bubbles on the rise
A research project led by Leif Hammarström at Uppsala University has been awarded a EUR 3.2 million grant by the European Commission. The aim is to create renewable solar fuel using soap foam, carbon dioxide and sunlight.
SoFiA (Soap Film-based Artificial Photosynthesis) aims to build a small-scale demonstrator device that will be able to produce solar fuels and raw materials for chemical industries using only sunlight, water and CO2. The SoFiA concept mimics the thylakoid membrane in leaves and uses molecular catalysts made from earth abundant materials, to form self-assembled photo catalytic surfaces with designed soap foams. Read more on the project webpage.
Shedding new light on greener synthesis pathways
In October 2019, Sascha Ott, Eszter Borbas, Leif Hammarström and Jacinto Sá, received a 5-year grant of 35 million kronor from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, for their interdisciplinary project "Unexplored Approaches to Organic Photoredox Catalysis”.
In this new research project, the groups will focus on finding new alternatives to several reactions that are widely used in the chemical industry. The objective is to develop new synthesis pathways that generate less waste, or new synthetic routes that previously have been unfeasible.
The CAP workshop 2018
Our annual workshop was held in 2018 at Sigtunahöjden in Sigtuna, on April 26-27. Thanks for all the interesting presentations everyone, you made the workshop great!
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