Dissemination & outreach round-up (first half of 2026)

EFFECTOR spent the first half of 2026 taking its science well beyond the laboratory — to the general public, to schoolchildren, and to industry.

Pint of Science.

[Pau, France, 19 May – What if your living room could generate energy?]

Pint of Science brings scientists into bars and cafés to talk directly with the public. For a project working on something as invisible as indoor light energy harvesting, it’s a rare chance to make the science tangible: showing, glass in hand, how the light already in the room could one day power the objects around us.

Photovoltaic workshops in schools.

[International School of Béarn, Sauvagnon primary school, France, 8-14 years-old pupils, creating organic solar panels from scratch]

Hands-on workshops introduced schoolchildren to the basics of photovoltaic energy and indoor light harvesting — planting the seed of renewable-energy literacy with a generation that will inherit the energy transition EFFECTOR is helping to build.

A workshop at PRINSE’26.

While several EFFECTOR partners were in Oulu, Finland for the January supervisory board meeting, they also ran a workshop at PRINSE’26, the 9th PrintoCent Industry Seminar (28–29 January 2026, University of Oulu) — the biennial gathering of Finland’s Printed Intelligence cluster, which brings together companies and researchers working on printed, flexible and hybrid electronics. It was a chance to present EFFECTOR’s approach to an industry audience working on exactly the kind of scalable, roll-to-roll manufacturing the project’s organic solar cells will eventually need.

Why it matters. Public talks, school workshops and industry seminars serve different purposes, but together they do something a scientific paper cannot: they connect EFFECTOR’s research to the people who will use it, teach it, and manufacture it at scale.