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Call for lightweighting project
- Automative
- EU Open calls
- Coordinators: Eureka
- Allocated budget: between 500 000€ and 3 000 000€ (4à-80 of eligible costs - loans)
- End of applications: 25 September 2024
- Project duration: 36 months (3 years max)
- Project submitted on: Open calls
Objective
The call focuses on weight reduction technologies such as:
- Optimisation of resource and energy efficiency: Designing lightweight products that consume fewer materials and energy while enhancing durability and lifespan. The use of digital simulations and virtual models (digital twins) is essential to reduce waste, speed up time-to-market, and lower the carbon footprint.
- Creation of sustainable value cycles: integrating recycling into the design phase. The goal is to promote the recycling of critical materials and improve the circularity of composite materials, minimizing dependence on rare raw materials and extending resource lifespans.
- Expanding lightweight technology integration: Although lightweighting has mainly been adopted in the mobility sector, it is necessary to extend it to other sectors (construction, energy, agriculture, etc.) by standardizing materials, developing connected processes, and facilitating the transfer of these innovations.
Priorities
- Development of new lightweight materials: Encouraging the use of bio-based, sustainable, and recycled materials while automating and optimizing manufacturing processes. Technologies like intelligent process control and digital models play a key role.
- Recycling technologies: Improving the use of secondary materials and developing technologies for traceability and separation of complex composite materials.
- Joining technologies: Designing smart adhesives and joining processes tailored to lightweight composite materials, considering the needs of recycling and reassembly.
- Additive manufacturing: Optimizing the production of multi-material lightweight structures by integrating in-process quality measurement methods and maximizing material reuse.
- Digitalisation: Using simulations and intelligent process control to improve manufacturing methods, ensure the quality of lightweight products, and facilitate their traceability for recycling purposes.
- Life cycle assessment and circular economy: Integrating life cycle assessment into product design and recycling, including carbon footprint considerations when selecting materials.
Eligibility
- The call is reserved for SMEs and mid-sized companies in France.
- Relevant sectors: automotive, railway, aerospace, maritime, mechanical engineering, energy, construction, health, agriculture, etc.
- The project must involve collaboration between at least two independent legal entities from two different Eureka countries.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- No country or organization can assumer more than 70% of the project budget.
