SolarWorld calls for research award entries from junior ‘Einsteins’
Hillsboro, Ore., April 14, 2010 – The SolarWorld group has issued its annual invitation for young scientists to enter their photovoltaic research to compete for the company’s Junior Einstein Award, which comes with a prize of 5,000 euros (about $6,800). The deadline is June 30.
Each year, SolarWorld, the largest and most experienced U.S. manufacturer of solar technology, bestows its Einstein Award to a figure who has earned significant merit in the field of PV technology, making an important contribution to developing solar power. It also honors thesis work by a young scientist.
An award ceremony will take place in September on the occasion of the 25th European Photovoltaic Conference in Valencia, Spain.
“With the SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award, we want to promote the enthusiasm of young people all over the world for the solar idea and the solar industry and generate innovative ideas all around the topic of photovoltaic technology,” said Frank H. Asbeck, chairman and CEO of SolarWorld.
About the SolarWorld Einstein Award
Figures from research and development, but also from industry and politics, have been honored since 2005 with the SolarWorld Einstein Award. Award winners who acquired special merit in using solar energy – and therefore nurturing planet Earth – are Dr. Rupert Neudeck, for use of photovoltaic technology in development aid, 2009; Prof. Antonio Luque-Lopez, Spanish photovoltaic pioneer, 2008; Dr. Martin Green, developer of the most efficient mono-crystalline solar cell, 2007; Dr. Adolf Goetzberger, founder of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, 2006; Dr. Klaus Töpfer, former German minister of the environment and later head of the United Nations Environmental Program, 2005. SolarWorld also has offered the SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award since 2006. For more information, go to www.einstein-award.de.
About the SolarWorld group
The SolarWorld group (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high-quality, crystalline solar-power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar production. From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and modules all the way to turn-key solar systems, including recycling, the group combines all stages of the solar value chain. The central business activity is selling quality modules into the installation and distribution trades and crystalline wafers to the international solar cell industry. Group headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany. Production sites are to be found in Germany, the United States and South Korea. The group’s largest production facilities operate in Freiberg, Germany and Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy. Under the name Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid solar-power solutions in emerging economies and developing countries, exemplifying sustainable economic development. Worldwide, SolarWorld employs more than 2,700 people. SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1999 and today is listed on, among others, the TecDAX, ÖkoDAX, Dow Jones STOXX 600 as well as in the sustainability indices DAXglobal Alternative Energy and NAI.
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