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The paper aims to give insights of the practices across 5 ecosystems within Greece and Türkiye. The SolarHub project brings the dynamics of solar innovation technologies and their applicability to agri-food systems. It draws upon the experience of quadruple helix actors across both countries.

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SolarHub, is an ongoing EU funded project bringing together solar innovation actors across Greece and Türkiye. The project entails 20 funded partners and reflects the plethora of quadruple helix representation relevant for the renewable energy sector and the agri-food industry. Project insights are important in understanding the leveling of communication across horizontal (DEC and project management) and vertical (strategies, capacities and activities) pillars of project implementation to ensure co-creation and value creation. It brings unique insight with its engagement with farmers and energy communities, as well as its quadruple helix constituents in structuring dialogue and impact across five ecosystems. These ecosystems are based in Greece (Thessaloniki, Athens) and Türkiye (Ankara, Istanbul, İzmir) and all reflect an idiosyncratic nature which enriches the knowledgeability of the experience. The presentation will bring into discussion the dichotomy of balancing differences across the ecosystems and how best to exploit and explore new practices for science communication and citizen engagement. The paper will detail examples from project practice in adherence to the 10 principles of Citizen Science and also bring insights to collaborating with other projects of geographical and thematic relevance.