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The recycling industry faces major challenges, especially when it comes to sort-ing plastics. The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE invites anyone interested in this topic to an online seminar on October 2, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event will focus on innovative sorting technol-ogies, which are considered key to improving the recycling of plastics.

On June 27 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., researchers from the high-performance center hydrogen Hesse invite interested citizens, families and students to the EXPERIMINTA ScienceCenter in Frankfurt am Main for an exciting dialogue on the topic of "Hydrogen as the energy of the future". There will be hands-on stations, experiments, lectures and opportunities to talk to the research sci-entists. The event is free of charge and registration is not necessary.

Christoph Degen, State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture, visited Fraunhofer IWKS in Hanau. He was accompanied by Heiko Kasseckert, Member of the State Parliament, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Walter, Vice President for Innovation and International Affairs at Technical University of Darmstadt.

Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells made of stable materials and manufactured using scalable production processes are the prerequisite for the next technological leap in the photovoltaic industry. Over the past five years, six Fraunhofer Institutes combined their expertise in the Fraunhofer lighthouse project "MaNiTU" to identify the most sustainable paths for the market launch of such tandem solar cells. They were able to show for one that high cell efficiencies can be achieved using industry-oriented processes, however, that such high efficiencies were only currently achievable with lead perovskite materials. Based on these findings, the researchers developed suitable recycling concepts to ensure sustainability.