Sustainable Industry Low Carbon scheme programme

European funding programme: Sustainable Industry Low Carbon scheme

Call deadline: 25th June 2012

The objective of the call is to provide support to actions that will focus on manufacturing and process industries covered by the ETS so as to enable these to cope with the challenges of a low carbon economy and to maintain their competitiveness.

The SILC (Sustainable Industry Low Carbon) initiative aims to help sectors to achieve specific GHG emission intensity reductions in order to maintain their competitiveness.

European funds for creative districts

European funds for creative districts

Deadline: 4th May 2012

The “European Creative Districts” will support traditional industrial regions in their transition from a traditional economy with strong “heritage” value and cultural identity to a sustainable and innovative economy. This notably includes the promotion of all forms of creativity and the better use of service innovation and creative industries to stimulate structural change for cultural, craft and manufacturing-based industry.

Partner search for Eco Innovation call

We are searching tanneries and companies that make seats for the air, automotive, bus and naval sectors.

Any other profile will be evaluated anyway.

The project proposal aims to reuse scrapes from the leather fashion industry. The process is based on the reutilisation of cuttings derived from the manufacturing by the fashion firms. These scrapes will be treated through a patent tanning process to produce a new material.

These scraps are now largely treated as waste because of their very small dimension and nowadays can not be reused for other productions.

This waste material is normally discarded as non-hazardous special waste.

Through a reworking process, it is possible to obtain a new material for other applications in the industrial field.

This new material has some characteristics that can be conveniently used in the coating of coverings for the automotive, railway and air sectors. It also responds to industry-specific safety regulations.

The project intent to type-test this material in accordance with the automotive, rail and air standards and the European and international standards.

The project aims also to establish and install a production process on an industrial scale, to meet the production volumes required for potential markets. Moreover, a sales network has to be developed.

The coordinator is an Italian SME.

More information about the call for proposal

For further information please contact me.

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

DEADLINE for pre-proposal:  31^st march 2011

BENEFICIARIES:

There must be at least three "legal entities" established in at least three of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, United Kingdom.

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

• Methods and processes for safety-relevant embedded systems
• Embedded Systems for Healthcare systems
• Embedded systems in Smart environments
• Manufacturing and production automation
• Computing platforms for embedded systems
• Embedded Systems for Security and Critical Infrastructures Protection
• Embedded technology for sustainable urban life
• Human-centred design of embedded systems

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