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Their core work

The Hellenic Organic and Printed Electronics Association (HOPE-A) is a Greek industry association that represents and advances the organic and printed electronics sector. They focus on bridging research and manufacturing for technologies like organic photovoltaics (OPV), OLEDs, organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), and biosensors. Their H2020 involvement centers on enabling scalable manufacturing processes — particularly roll-to-roll printing and organic vapour phase deposition — and building open innovation ecosystems that connect material science with industrial production. Based in Thermi (Thessaloniki area), they serve as a national hub connecting Greek players in flexible electronics to European research and pilot-line networks.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

HOPE-A's earliest H2020 work (CORNET, 2018) focused on fundamental multiscale modelling and characterization of organic electronics materials — OPVs, perovskites, OLEDs — with an emphasis on building shared databases and open innovation environments. By 2020, their focus shifted toward industrial readiness: real-time in-line quality control for high-yield manufacturing (RealNano) and sustainable nano-functionalized surfaces for packaging and structural electronics (FlexFunction2Sustain). The trajectory moves clearly from understanding materials to manufacturing them at scale, with a new sustainability layer added in the most recent project.

HOPE-A is moving from lab-stage organic electronics research toward pilot-line manufacturing with a growing emphasis on sustainability and circular materials — making them increasingly relevant for green manufacturing partnerships.

How they like to work

HOPE-A participates exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator, which is typical for an industry association acting as a sector representative and network facilitator rather than a research performer. With 36 unique partners across 12 countries from just 3 projects, they operate in large, diverse consortia — averaging 12 partners per project. This suggests they are well-connected and comfortable in complex multi-actor setups, likely contributing sector knowledge, dissemination reach, and access to their member network rather than deep technical R&D capacity.

Despite only 3 projects, HOPE-A has built a broad network of 36 unique partners across 12 countries, reflecting the large consortium sizes typical of manufacturing and nanotechnology Innovation Actions. Their reach spans a significant portion of EU member states.

What sets them apart

As a national association for organic and printed electronics, HOPE-A occupies a distinctive niche: they are not a lab or a company, but a sector-wide representative body. This means partnering with them provides access to the entire Greek OPE ecosystem — companies, researchers, and infrastructure — through a single entry point. For consortium builders, they offer dissemination channels, industry validation, and stakeholder mobilization across the organic electronics value chain in Southeast Europe.

Highlights from their portfolio

• RealNano
  Largest funding (EUR 337,500) and directly targets the high-yield manufacturing bottleneck with real-time in-line nano-characterization — the most industrially mature of their projects.
• FlexFunction2Sustain
  Longest-running project (2020-2024) that bridges organic electronics with sustainability themes like recycling, bio-degradability, and packaging — signalling a strategic pivot.
• CORNET
  Their entry into H2020, establishing the foundation in multiscale modelling and open innovation environments for organic electronics manufacturing.