News - Unite! Doctoral Network in Energy Storage
Unite!Energy is worthy of awards...
Jan Philipp Hofmann, Bettina Wagner and Corinna Caspar-Terizakis from TU Darmstadt received the Unite! Award for their contribution to promoting Early Career Reseachers. A significant part of this contribution is their work on the Unite! Doctoral Network in Energy Storage ‘Unite!Energy’.
An alliance like Unite! requires a great deal of commitment and dedication. This year's winners of the Unite! Awards have done so in a particularly remarkable way. The award citation notes that Jan Philipp Hofmann, Bettina Wagner and Corinna Caspar-Terizakis have been instrumental in promoting young scientists from TUDa within the Unite! Alliance. It highlights their key role in strategically expanding the Unite! Doctoral School, particularly through the establishment of the Unite! Multi-Cotutelle Agreement and the Unite! Doctoral Network in Energy Storage – A Hydrogen Vision for Sustainable Energy Storage, as part of the HORIZON-MSCA framework.
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Corinna Caspar-Terizakis, Bettina Wagner and Jan Philipp Hofmann.
Hofmann is Professor of Materials Science and (co-)speaker of the Graduate School of Energy Science and Engineering at TU Darmstadt, member of the Unite! community on Doctoral Education, and researcher and supervisor within Unite!Energy. Speaking about the project's successes and challenges, he says “The Unite! network has played a key role in establishing the MSCA Doctoral Network UNITE!Energy […]. This project nicely showcases the power of collaboration within Unite! — without the connections and trust among principal investigators and administration built through the alliance, such a successful proposal would not have been possible.
Unite!Energy breathes life into the Unite! Doctoral School by providing its very first cohort of doctoral candidates, who benefit from a structured programme rich in educational opportunities and networking activities. The cotutelle agreement between the partner universities helps streamlining the administrative process for such large-scale, cross-border research initiatives.
Both initiatives demonstrate that, despite complexity, real progress is possible when we work together with a shared vision.”
Bettina Wagner and Corinna Caspar-Terizakis are both from TU Darmstadt and are also involved in Unite!. Bettina Wagner is part of the community ´Doctoral Education for Research, Innovation and Society,` while Corinna Caspar-Terizakis leads the subgroup ´Individual Staff Mobility` within the Unite! community for ´Professional Development.`
The Unite! Award 2025 Ceremony took place during the Closing Plenary Session of the Aalto Dialogue, hosted by Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.
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Find out more and meet the awardees in the interview.