Project description
Reshaping the future of concrete and ceramics
Easy to transport, handle and install, lightweight components are being increasingly used in construction and infrastructure sectors, as well as in the aerospace, automotive and defence industries. Concrete and ceramics are the focus of interest due to their wide range of applications and durability. But their lightweight attributes need to be coupled with enhanced properties and multifunctionalities. The EU-funded LightCoce project will build an ecosystem for the upscaling of these materials and structures. To do this, it will provide open access to SMEs or industry to a single entry point ecosystem that will cover a range of end applications from construction materials (bricks, ceramic tiles) and infrastructures (ready mix concrete and prefabricated components) to high-tech applications in the automotive and aerospace industries.
Objective
During the last decades a trend towards the use of lightweight materials in constructions and infrastructures, as well as in the aerospace and automotive industry is observed. Lightweight components are easy to transport, handle and install and demand less operational energy reducing substantially their environmental footprint and the relative costs. Among other materials, concrete and ceramics are on the focus of interest due to their wide range of application and their durability. Based on end applications lightweight attributes must be coupled with enhanced properties and multifunctionalities, such as high mechanical strength, self-sensing, self-cleaning properties, which can be achieved with the aid of nanomaterials.
The main objective of the LightCoce project is to cover the gap in the upscaling and testing of multifunctional lightweight concrete and ceramic materials by providing open access to SMEs or Industry to a single entry point ecosystem consisting of already developed Pilot Lines (including three clusters of existing pilot lines; a. Concrete group, b. Conventional Ceramics group, and c. Advanced Ceramics group), process and materials modelling, Characterization, Standardisation, Regulatory, Safety & Environmental Assessment, Data Management and Innovation Management that will be accessible to the interested stakeholders at fair conditions and cost.
The ecosystem will support the upscaling activities of European SMEs and industry, covering a large range of end applications from constructions materials (bricks, ceramic tiles), infrastructures (ready mix concrete, prefabricated components), to high tech applications in automotive & aerospace industry. Thus, LightCoce ecosystem targets will be achieved through the collaboration of a well-balanced multidisciplinary consortium consists of 26 Industrial and RTO partners well recognized and world leading experts in their fields: 5 Large Enterprise 8 RTDs, 12 SMEs, and 1 Association spread across 9 countries.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineering
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringceramics
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
157 80 ATHINA
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Participants (27)
564 35 Bankeryd
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48008 BILBAO
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11521 Athina
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80805 MUNCHEN
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143 42 NEA FILADELFEIA
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501 15 Boras
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144 51 METAMORFOSIS
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2612 PA Delft
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82166 Graefelfing
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41122 Modena
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41300 LA RINCONADA (SEVILLA)
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61-755 Poznan
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2740 120 Porto Salvo
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12006 Castellon
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12520 Nules
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02 673 Warszawa
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5060 SAMBREVILLE
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31032 Casale Sul Sile Tv
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84367 Zeilarn
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12489 Berlin
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16129 Genova Ge
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28013 Madrid
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90489 Nurnberg
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111 43 Athina
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35122 Padova
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35122 Padova
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157 80 LAVRION KOROPI ATTICA
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