The Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) was founded in 2006 from Lazio Region and the University of Rome Tor Vergata to create a center of excellence in the field of next-generation photovoltaics. The lab consists of a 400 square meter laboratory that houses equipment for the fabrication and characterization of organic, hybrid, dye sensitized and perovskite photovoltaic cells, modules and panels and 150 square meters of office space for the incubation of spin-offs generated from research at CHOSE. More than 30 researchers including graduate students, postdocs and staff are now working at CHOSE. The main objectives of CHOSE consist in the development of fabrication processes for organic and hybrid organic / inorganic solar devices, the definition of a process for the industrialization of these innovative photovoltaic technologies, the technological transfer of these and the development of photovoltaic applications in collaboration with companies at both the domestic and international level.