HyMAP aims at developing a new generation of multifunctional hybrid photocatalysts which would allow the exploitation of at least 1 % of the sunlight energy for the CO₂ photoreduction using water as electron donor. To achieve this goal, HyMAP encompasses an interdisciplinary research program through which several breakthroughs at different scales will be achieved:

• Development of efficient multifunctional organic/inorganic semiconductors and metal-organic frameworks photocatalysts with separated reduction/oxidation active sites, maximized charge separation and transport processes, and improved light harvesting.
• Use of metal nanoparticles with enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) effect able to improve light harvesting, store and transfer charge carriers and co-catalyse reduction or oxidation reactions.
• Characterization and modelling of the structural and opto-electronic properties of inorganic photocatalysts, metal/inorganic junctions and organo-inorganic hybrid materials.
• Development of efficient photoreactors, solar reactors and photoelectrochemical devices with a view on the scale-up of artificial photosynthetic processes.