Applications from May 29 to September 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM
The national funding agencies (NFAs) of Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Canada, Chile, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and Turkey are promoting a call to fund international R&D projects in the field of Lightweighting technologies.
The project consortium must include organizations based in at least two of the countries/regions listed in this call.
For this purpose, a Matchmaking platform has been created to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote consortium building.
Lightweighting technology, or weight reduction, emerges as a solution that enables technology to reduce weight, save materials, and enhance recycling while maintaining or improving functionality. Lightweight and intelligent design, bio-based raw materials, reuse, re-fabrication, and recycled material flows are crucial parameters to consider in this field. Digital solutions for calculation models, production processes, and similar approaches are essential tools to boost and support lightweight innovation. Weight reduction technology provides ecological solutions and, at the same time, adds commercial value across all sectors.
The main intended effects of using Lightweighting technologies are:
- Optimization of resources and energy efficiency;
- Creation of sustainable value chains;
- Integration of Lightweight technologies into more areas.
Relevant industrial sectors include (but are not limited to):
Regardless of the focus of national priorities in competition participation, all sectors requiring weight reduction technologies are welcome, such as automotive, rail, aerospace, space, maritime, mechanical engineering, energy, construction, infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, and others.
Relevant weight reduction technologies to be developed include (but are not limited to):
- Optimization of lightweight design approaches;
- New lightweight materials, including optimized manufacturing;
- Recycling of lightweight materials;
- Joining technology (adhesives, joints, welding);
- Additive manufacturing;
- Digitalization;
- Life cycle assessment/circular economy.
Basic requirements for the projects:
- Provide relevant contributions in the context of the call;
- Address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description;
- Focus on experimental development (Technology Readiness Levels 4-6), demonstrating potential for investigating or developing a product, process, or service for commercialization.
See the call page here and the full information here.
Register on the matchmaking platform here.
For further information, contact the Eureka team.
