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This document (Deliverable 6.2 - 4 capacity development and transfer workshops report) has been prepared under WP6 of the COME RES project in the frame of Task 6.2 (Capacity development and training for public authorities and/or community stakeholders in the “learning regions”) and constitutes a general framework for capacity building and a useful support to the transfer experiments that will be part of Task 6.3 (Best practice transfer roadmaps). The COME RES learning regions are intended in the general definition set up by OECD 2 and adopted by the EU3, as not necessarily regions lagging behind but rather as territories that aim for continuous learning as the main pathway towards innovation and progress. This report provides information on the transfer visits and training workshops undertaken by the transfer teams of the five learning regions set up in Task 6.1, to the country of origin of the 5 good/best practices chosen by each transfer team, from the COME RES good practice portfolio (Deliverable 5.2). These have beenendorsed by the COME RES country desks, as those offering the best potential for transfer and adaptation to the specific legal, economic, governance and cultural contexts of the adopting regions. Task 6.2 builds on the five transfer management plans, pre-assessed by the transfer teams of the learning regions as part of Task 6.1, which represent the general framework for the transfer roadmaps development to be conducted within Task 6.3. Task 6.2 supports the preparation, deployment, and post- event assessment of COME RES capacity development and training activities that will serve for the elaboration of transfer roadmaps envisaged within Task 6.3. The transfer roadmaps on the operational levels will contain proposals on how concepts/measures extracted from the chosen good/best practices will find adaptation in the adopting/learning regions.

Since the advent of photocatalytic technology, scientists have been searching for semiconductor materials with high efficiency in solar energy utilization and conversion to chemical energy. Recently, the development of quantum dot (QD) photocatalysts has attracted much attention because of their unique characteristics: small size, quantum effects, strong surface activity, and wide photoresponse range. Among ternary chalcogenide semiconductors, CuInS2 QDs are increasingly examined in the field of photocatalysis due to their high absorption coefficients, good matching of the absorption range with sunlight spectrum, long lifetimes of photogenerated electron-hole pairs and environmental sustainability. In this review paper, the structural and electronic properties, synthesis methods and various photocatalytic applications of CuInS2 QDs are systematically expounded. The current research status on the photocatalytic properties of materials based on CuInS2 QD is discussed combined with the existing modification approaches for the enhancement of their performances. Future challenges and new development opportunities of CuInS2 QDs in the field of photocatalysis are then prospected.