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The project Consortium is composed by 7 partners:
UNINOVA 
The Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication, I3N 
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd 
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação 
Politecnico Di Torino (POLITO) founded in 1906, is one of the most important universities in Europe for engineering and architecture studies, strongly committed to collaboration with industry. Currently, it holds the 47th position among the top Engineering universities in the world, the 13th in Europe and the 2nd in Italy (QS World University Rankings 2020). The range of studies is broad and ever-widening it spans space, environment and land, telecommunications, information, energy, mechanics, electronics, chemistry, etc. The Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) involved in SYNERGY is focused on research and education involving the fundamental principles of matter and energy, with more than eighty years of experience on electrochemical storage systems.
Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, (Tyndall-UCC) Ireland, is a leading European research centre in integrated ICT (Information and Communications Technology) hardware and systems. The Advanced Materials and Devices Group is a leader in materials development through sol-gel and vapour phase deposition methods (chemical vapour and atomic layer deposition), with extensive experience in the energy materials sector, more specifically, energy scavenging, batteries and photovoltaic technology.SYNERGY Project Consortium
UNINOVA will manage all the activities under the coordination of Professor Rodrigo Martins that has a strong experience in coordinating projects and networks, together with Professor Elvira Fortunato, with strong experience in dealing with European matters (EC Scientific Advice Mechanism) as well at University level (vice-rector of Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
Professor Rodrigo Martins already coordinated 15 International projects and 19 national projects, besides holding 43 patents, together with Professor Elvira Fortunato. He coordinated the first project of semiconductor oxides (Multiflexioxides), considered by the EU as one of the 10 outstanding projects within FP6, as well as the past project BET-EU that was a success story. Moreover, among other prestigious positions, he is the current president of the European Academy of Science and the current first vice president of the International Union of Materials Research Societies, IUMRS. This puts him in an excellent position to access key members of the academy, science promoters and other relevant stakeholders for SYNERGY.
Professor Elvira Fortunato is the recipient of an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council, in the first edition (Invisible), and received a second one (DIGISMART), which started in January 2019. Most recently, in September 2020, she received the Horizon Impact Award 2020 from the European Commission, as a recognition of her work and consequent value for society. Additionally, Professor Elvira Fortunato has experience in coordinating several European and National projects, such as the gender equality project SPEAR (Supporting and Implementing Plans for Gender Equality in Academia and Research), of great relevance for gender equality issues that matter the University.
In September 2020 it won the Horizon Impact Award 2020 from the European Commission.
The consortium is constituted by six other partners. These include the twinning partners: FhG-IKTS (materials science and nano-anaytics; VTT (process upscaling), POLITO (electrochemical storage systems) and Tyndall (energy scavenging, batteries and photovoltaic technology). In addition, SPI from Portugal, is responsible for dissemination and the support to the implementation of training activities.
The coordinator is assisted by the project committee, the higher and final decision body of SYNERGY. It is composed of one representative from each of the partner institutions. In addition, the consortium is supported by an external advisory board, representing 28 institutions and companies that support SYNERGY (15 from Portugal and 13 from other European countries) representing different scientific areas and industrial sectors, comprehensively covering the scientific and technical scope of SYNERGY.