Eurotransbio programme

Deadline for submitting the project proposals is 31st January  2014 

Eurotransbio (ETB) programme calls for innovative near to the market Research, development and innovation projects in all fields of modern biotechnology (health, agro/food, industrial biotech, environment, marine/aquatic solutions) 

ETB’s mission is to foster the competitiveness of the European biotechnology industry by supporting research intensive SMEs and their strategic partners (large industries, public and private research organizations/universities) with the aim of achieving a thriving European biotechnology industry. 

Consortia coordinated by an SME and consisting of at least two enterprises belonging to two different countries participating in the 9th ETB Call [Austria, Belgium (represented by the regions of Flanders and Wallonia), Finland, France (represented by the region of Alsace), Germany, Italy, Russia, and Spain (represented by the regions of Andalusia and Basque Country)]  and coordinated by an SME can apply for ETB funding.

A consortium may involve as many additional partners (e.g. SMEs, Large Industries (LI), and Research Organisations (RO) belonging to the participating countries/regions) as necessary to achieve the project goals.  

Budget: EUR 21.000.000

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European funds for biotechnology research

European gratn funds for industrial Research and development project in Biotechnology 

Deadline: 1st February 2012

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

The strategic objective of the call is to foster the competitiveness of Europe’s biotechnology industry by supporting research intensive SMEs and their strategic partnerships. The programme focuses on supporting innovation and competitive research in SMEs by funding transnational projects with challenging application aspects and a substantial commercial impact on the market.

This call addresses applications in all fields of modern biotechnology, irrespective of particular branches (red, green, grey (environmental), white (industrial) and blue biotech projects are welcome).

Funding is intended for innovative biotech-projects in the fields of:

• Industrial research & development (planned research or critical investigation aimed at the acquisition of new knowledge and skills for developing new products, processes or services or for bringing about a significant improvement in existing products, processes or services. It comprises the creation of components of complex systems, which is necessary for the industrial research, notably for generic technology validation, to the exclusion of prototypes as covered by “experimental development”)
• Applied research (the implementation of the results of industrial research for the creation of commercial applications. Applied research is performed in order to solve specific, practical questions related to product development up to the first prototype).

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.

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FUNDINGS: ENVIRONMENT POLICY AND GOVERNANCE

EU Grant funds: environment policy and governance

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:

Only innovative or demonstration projects are eligible.

• Climate change: to stabilise greenhouse gas concentration at a level that prevents global warming above 2 °C,

• Water: to contribute to enhanced water quality by developing cost-effective measures to achieve good ecological status in view of developing river basin management plans under Directive 2000/60/EC (Water Framework Directive),

• Air: to achieve levels of air quality that do not give rise to significant negative impacts on and risks to human health and the environment,

• Soil: to protect and ensure the sustainable use of soil by preserving soil functions, preventing threats to soil, mitigating their effects and restoring degraded soils,

• Urban environment: to contribute to improving the environmental performance of Europe's urban areas,

• Noise: to contribute to policy development and implementation on environmental noise,

• Chemicals: improve the protection of environment and health from risks posed by chemicals by 2020 by implementing chemicals legislation, in particular Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) and the Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides,

• Environment and health: to develop the information base for policy on the environment and health (the Environment and Health Action Plan),

• Natural resources and waste: to develop and implement policies designed to ensure sustainable management of natural resources and wastes, and to improve the environmental performances of products, sustainable production and consumption patterns, waste prevention, recovery and recycling; to contribute to the effective implementation of the Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste,

• Forests: to provide, especially through an EU coordination network, a concise and comprehensive basis for policy relevant information on forests in relation to climate change (impact on forest ecosystems, mitigation, substitution effects), biodiversity (baseline information and protected forest areas), forest fires, forest conditions and the protective functions of forests (water, soil and infra­ structure) as well as contributing to the protection of forests against fires,

• Innovation: to contribute to developing and demonstrating innovative policy approaches, technologies, methods and instruments to assist in the implementation of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP),

• Strategic approaches: to promote effective implementation and enforcement of Union environmental legislation and improve the knowledge base for environmental policy; to improve the environmental performance of SMEs

BENEFICIARIES:

Proposals must be presented by entities registered in the Member States of the European Union being public and/or private bodies, actors and institutions

DEADLINE: July 18^Th, 2011.

SUSTAINABLE AND GREEN ENGINES - AIRCRAFT

DEADLINE: MAY 3^rd, 2011.

BENEFICIARIES: 

Any legal entities established in  EU Member states or Associated country.

ACTIVITIES:

The programme is arranged around the six following Integrated Technology Demonstrators (ITDs):

1. Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft,
2. Green Regional Aircraft,
3. Green Rotorcraft,
4. Systems for Green Operation,
5. Sustainable and Green Engines,
6. Eco-Design

The calls are published to support activities meeting the needs of the ITDs and in most cases, the RTD work will serve for one of the demonstrators

SUSTAINABLE AND GREEN ENGINES

• Lean Burn Control System Verification Rig
• Pitch Change Mechanism key technologies maturation
• PCM kinematic demonstration
• Propellers electrical de-icing system: reliability assessment of key technologies for high temperature electrical machines
• Large 3-shaft Demonstrator – Core Turbomachinery – High Temperature Flexible Printed Circuit Board
• Large 3-shaft Demonstrator – Aeroengine intake acoustic liner technology development
• Advanced press forming and hardening of high strength steels
• Casting process optimization and validation of hollow multivane clusters with thin walls and trailing edges
• Integrating forging- and process-simulation into SAGE4 GTF LPT rotor design
• Total Measurement System for Geometry and Surface Inspection of bladed Disks (TOMMI)
• Implementation of Carbon-Nanotube Reinforced Aluminium for Aerospace Heat Exchanger Applications
• Electric Smart Engine Actuator
• High temperature Ni-based alloy forging process advancement
• High temperature Ni-based super alloy casting process advancement
• Feasibility study and prototypes manufacturing of oil tank in thermoplastic for Helicopter Engine
• Hot environment unsteady pressure sensors
• Development of Quiet exhaust noise attenuation technologies

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TRANSPORT GREEN ROTOCRAFT

BENEFICIARIES:

Any legal entities established in  EU Member states or Associated country.

ACTIVITIES:

The programme is arranged around the six following Integrated Technology Demonstrators (ITDs):

1. Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft,
2. Green Regional Aircraft,
3. Green Rotorcraft,
4. Systems for Green Operation,
5. Sustainable and Green Engines,
6. Eco-Design

The calls are published to support activities meeting the needs of the ITDs and in most cases, the RTD work will serve for one of the demonstrators

GREEN ROTOCRAFT

• EMA for utility consumer systems: EMA for Landing Gear
• Innovative Dynamic Rotor Brake
• Innovative High Voltage Energy Storage System for Advanced Rotorcraft Integration
• Integrated Air Traffic Control/Tiltrotor simulation of low-noise procedures and evaluation of the impact on operators
• Dismantling and recycling of ecodesigned helicopter demonstrators

FUNDS FOR COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEADLINE: Continuos open call for proposals.

  

SCIENTIFIC DOMAINS:

• Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences
• Food and Agriculture
• Forests, their Products and Services
• Materials, Physical and Nanosciences
• Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies
• Earth System Science and Environmental Management
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Transport and Urban Development
• Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health

In addition, Trans-Domain Proposals allow for broad, multidisciplinary proposals to strike across the nine scientific domains.

ACTIVITIES:

The support will cover the costs of networking activities such as:

• meetings
• conferences
• workshops
• short-term scientific exchanges
• dissemination activities     

BENEFICIARIES:

Researchers from the following countries :

35 member states: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Serbia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
Other states: Israel, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.  

FUNDS IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY  1^ST, 2011.

BENEFICIARIES:

SMEs or organisations based in the following countries/regions:

• Austria
• Belgium represented by the regions of: Flanders, Wallonia, 
• Finland
• Germany
• Hungary
• Israel 
• Italy
• The Netherlands
• Spain represented by the regions of: Basque Country, Catalonia, Madrid, Navarra.

Funding is intended for innovative biotech-projects in the fields of:

·         Industrial research & development

·         Applied research

ACTIVITIES:

The strategic objective of the call is to foster the competitiveness of Europe’s biotechnology industry by supporting research intensive SMEs and their strategic partnerships.

Funding possibilities will be offered to excellent and innovative industrial research and development and applied research projects.

All  projects should be designed according to the following principles:

• All project partners contribute to, and benefit from, an equitable and balanced cooperation.
• Results of collaborative projects are shared through a controlled process that protects and allocates any intellectual property rights used and established during cooperation.
• Projects must be in the field of biotech irrespective of the core business of the applicants
• Projects must be technologically innovative and create economical value. They may involve any kind of work up to and including the pre-competitive phase (i.e.up to the first prototype)