High School Science Talents Visiting Hanwha Q CELLS R&D Center in Germany

'Hanwha Science Challenge' Overseas Exploration Successfully Completed

Ten winners of the high school science idea competition hosted by Hanwha Group visited Hanwha Q CELLS' Germany R&D Center and European universities.

Hanwha Group announced on the 15th that it conducted an overseas exploration program from the 7th to the 14th with the Hanwha Science Challenge winners, visiting eco-friendly and renewable energy cities and research institutions in Denmark and Germany.

Since 2011, Hanwha Group has been holding the Hanwha Science Challenge for the 12th time, nurturing about 15,000 young science talents under the motto set by Chairman Kim Seung-yeon, "Fostering Korea's young Nobel Prize-winning scientists."

Science Challenge awardees are taking a commemorative photo at the Amager Bakke combined heat and power plant located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Hanwha Group

This overseas exploration included 10 students from 5 teams who won silver awards or higher in 2023. These teams were Fish Power from Seoul Science High School (Grand Prize), Mismatch from Hana High School and EcoSeaWeed from Hadong Girls' High School (Gold Prize), and Tottenham from Daegu Science High School and Prizmo from Ogeum High School (Silver Prize).

The participating students visited TWIG Energy Solutions, which aims to realize a carbon-zero power grid through balanced management of AI-based energy use and storage; Skylab at the Technical University of Denmark; Copenhagen District Heating Company (HOFOR); Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant; the energy self-sufficient city of Malm? in Sweden; Technical University of Berlin in Germany; and Hanwha Q CELLS Germany R&D Center.

The place that attracted the most interest from the students was the Hanwha Q CELLS Germany R&D Center. It is Hanwha Group’s European eco-friendly business outpost, possessing world-class solar solutions through continuous technological innovation. Seodongju, a student from Seoul Science High School, said, "I saw the latest technology of Hanwha Q CELLS," and added, "I felt proud of a global total solar solution company that contributes to human life with clean energy."