“Weaving Innovation into Resilience”
IDEALIST – InDustrial Ecosystems tAckLing supply chains dISrupTions and boosting advanced technologies uptake
Coordinated by CIMES, IDEALIST’s primary goal is to empower Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in three key industrial sectors: Energy-intensive industries, Aerospace and Defence, and Mobility, Transport & Automotive. These sectors are crucial to the European economy and face shared challenges, such as transitioning to sustainable practices, competitiveness in a context of limited raw materials and rising energy costs, and adapting to changing consumer habits.
Funded under the HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01 call, IDEALIST represents a strategic initiative aimed at bolstering the resilience and technological adaptability of SMEs within the European Union.
The project indeed aims to transform SMEs from passive observers to active participants in these changes, especially in response to global events like the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict initiated by Russia in Ukraine.
IDEALIST focuses on three main areas:
The project will implement pilot projects to encourage collaboration across these ecosystems, using the Hack&Match method. It will also leverage the AGORA platform, led by EIT Manufacturing, to facilitate matchmaking and community building.
IDEALIST is a three-year Coordination and Support Action (CSA) whose consortium includes 14 partners from 6 European countries and Ukraine, reflecting its broad relevance and scope.
Project Information
IDEALIST – Grant agreement ID: 101138366
EC signature date 16 November 2023
Start date 1 December 2023
End date 30 November 2026
EU contribution € 2 093 511,77
Funded under: Digital, Industry and Space
Coordinator:
CIMES – CREATING INTEGRATED MECHANICALS SYSTEMS AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES (FR)
Project Partners
COMET SCRL (IT)
EIT MANUFACTURING ASBL (FR)
DITECFER S.c.ar.l. (IT)
Association ‘Industrial Automation of Ukraine’ (UA)
GIE ALBATROS (FR)
GEOKOMPETENZZENTRUM FREIBERG EV (DE)
4CF SP ZOO (PL)
POLYMERIS (FR)
ASOCIACION CLUSTER DE AUTOMOCION DE ARAGON (FR)
SILESIAN AVIATION CLUSTER (PL)
FUNDACIO EURECAT (ES)
CZECH AEROSPACE CLUSTER (CZ)
CHEMIE-CLUSTER BAYERN (DE)
Biomass not as waste, but as a valuable raw material. With this strategy, the TeBiCE project aims to show that the implementation of bioeconomy brings both economic and social benefits in addition to greater sustainability. The six project regions (Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia and Poland) have an enormous potential of previously unused biomass. This is to be tapped by the cooperation of eight project partners working together to establish bio- and circular economy in Central Europe.
In this project, we want to jointly remove barriers to the development of a sustainable market for high quality bio-products in order to make better use of residual materials in the future. The focus is on unused by-products and waste products from primary production, agriculture and the food industry. Often, the lack of economic viability is a barrier to sustainable alternatives compared to established products. Or it is simply not known that a producer’s waste can be used as a raw material for another production process. This is where TeBiCE comes in: We want to bring together the right partners in the project regions so that new, high-quality products can be created and new value chains can be established from resources that were previously perceived as waste. Additionally, we will promote the development of new technologies to enhance the quality of bioeconomic processes. To make the cooperation efficient, bureaucratic hurdles will be removed and uniform quality standards for materials will be created. In this way, the participating regions will benefit not only from a more resource-efficient economy, but also from improved competitiveness in entrepreneurial and social terms.
➡️ More Information: https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/tebice/
Project details
Name: TeBiCE – Territorial biorefineries for circular economy
Funding programme: Interreg Central Europe
Lead Partner: Venetian Agency for Innovation in the Primary Sector – Veneto Agricoltura (IT)
Partner: Venetian Agency for Innovation in the Primary Sector – Veneto Agricoltura (IT), National Institute of Chemistry (SI), Fraunhofer Italia Research scarl – Innovation Engineering Center (IT), Chemie-Cluster Bayern GmbH (DE), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (PL), Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship (PL), Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SK), Carinthia UAS – non-profit limited liability company (AT)
Duration: 04/2023- 03/2026
Budget: 2.052.855 € (1.642.284 € co-financed by the ERDF)
INNOBIOVC: Promoting sustainable investment in circular value chains in the Alpine region.
Providing food, textiles, and energy among others, bioeconomy is a key aspect of our lives. Since the circular bioeconomy sector is still developing, building international circular bioeconomy value chains could become a determining success factor. Establishing such transnational circular bioeconomy value chains is often problematic, as, due to their cross-regional nature, the smaller companies serving a local market do not know each other.
Join us on an exciting journey as we address the pressing need for financial awareness and impact measurement in the Alpine region’s circular economy. At present, a critical gap exists in understanding the financing dynamics and quantifying the effects of regional or entrepreneurial investments along the value chain.
Building upon the successful outcomes of the Interreg Alpine Space projects, ARDIA-NET and AlpLinkBioEco, INNOBIOVC aims to revolutionize sustainable investment practices. Our innovative approach will involve the development of a cutting-edge tool, leveraging the insights and knowledge derived from these projects. This tool will empower our partners to explore diverse financing opportunities, identify the most suitable collaborators, and accurately measure the sustainability gains associated with circular products.
By facilitating collaboration and knowledge exchange, INNOBIOVC will foster the collective development of new circular products. Through this project, we strive to create a vibrant ecosystem where businesses can thrive and contribute to a sustainable future in the Alpine region.
Together with the following partners from four European countries, the Chemical Cluster Bavaria aims to contribute to the development of ciruclar value Chains in the Alpine space:
Further Information
For questions and suggestions concerning the project please contact Stefanie Vogel or Georg Weig.
➡️Further information about InnoBioVC: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/innobiovc/
Interreg Alpine Space 2021 – 2027
InnoBioVC Project 01.04.2023 – 30.09.2024
Priority: Carbon neutral and resource sensitive Alpine region; Contribution to EUSALP AG
AG1 Research & innovation
This project is co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg Alpine Space programme.
Cradle-ALP: Cradle to cradle, circular design and circular substitutions for linear products in industrial manufacturing processes in the Alpine Space
Chemie-Cluster Bayern GmbH is again partner in an Interreg Alpine Space consortium since November 2022. The aim of the Cradle-ALP project is to increase the awareness of the public, relevant industries and political stakeholders for cradle-to-cradle approaches, circular design and circular economy in the Alpine Space.
The focus is to explore new approaches in the plastics, packaging, chemical, wood/furniture and textile industries to build circular value networks and thereby replace fossil or unsustainable materials with circular, sustainable and bio-based/bio-degradable materials.
To this end, the project will first sensitize industry representatives, political stakeholders and the general public to the topic and raise awareness of the opportunities, obstacles and mechanisms for a sustainable transformation of industry towards a biobased circular economy.
In the further course of the project, experts from industry and research will be involved in order to develop “transformation roadmaps”, which will subsequently be tested for industrial practicability in pilot trials with industrial partners. The aim is for value chains to be formed across regions and thus new business collaborations.
Ultimately, the consortium will work to achieve policy convergence for transnational S4 strategies in the priority sectors and initiate joint financing instruments to support businesses in transformation. Cradle-ALP thus contributes to the industrial transformation and the development of a more sustainable mode of production in the Alpine Space.
The consortium consists of clusters, universities, business associations, institutions and organizations from six European countries. Besides Chemie-Cluster Bayern, as the only Bavarian partner, the following actors are involved in the project:
For questions or suggestions regarding the project, please contact Tobias Schwarzmüller.
➡️Further information about Cradle-ALP on the homepage at: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/cradle-alp/
➡️Cradle-ALP on Linkedin: https://lnkd.in/gPKvvpKv
nterreg Alpine Space 2021 – 2027
Cradle-ALP Project 01.11.2022 – 31.10.2025
Priority: Carbon neutral and resource sensitive Alpine region; Contribution to EUSALP AG
AG1 Research & innovation
This project is co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg Alpine Space programme.
In the Bavarian cross-cluster project ” Alternative technological approaches for materials, nutrition, chemistry, agriculture and additive manufacturing – WECLA”, the Cluster New Materials (CNW), the Cluster Nutrition (CE), the Cluster Chemistry Bavaria (CCB), the Coordination Office Additive Manufacturing and the Competence Network Digital Agriculture Bavaria (KNeDL) have joined forces to work together in the future technology fields around the topics of materials, nutrition, chemistry, agriculture and additive manufacturing.
The transformation of our economic system towards a sustainable economy based on renewable resources is of great importance for the development of our society, for the preservation of our prosperity and for a future fit for grandchildren. The transformation needed goes beyond simply moving away from fossil fuels. It encompasses agribusiness and food production the use of accumulating residues and by-products and the use of low-resource, circular technologies. This requires new innovative processes and technologies, some of which are available on the market but most of which are still under development. In particular, biotechnology, chemistry and additive manufacturing are seen as technology fields with high innovation potential.
Project Objective:
The aim of the project is to build knowledge about alternative technologies, innovative technology developers and pioneers in research institutions as well as promising startups and innovative and agile companies. The analysis of interfaces is to show the potentials of the technologies and processes for other technology and application areas.
The research focuses on the following technology fields:
The findings from research and analysis are clearly presented. With modern and attractive communication formats for knowledge transfer, this information will be made available to the Bavarian innovation ecosystem and its stakeholders in business, industry and science. This is intended to sensitize the cluster partners and Bavarian companies to future topics and provide impetus for new business ideas. In addition, the cooperation between the three clusters, the competence network and the coordination office will be expanded and consolidated.
First steps:
In the next few months, future topics, innovative startups and technology pioneers will now be researched and an internal project database will be set up. In a workshop with external communications experts, current and target-group-specific communication formats will be elicited and selected, and an editorial plan will be drawn up.
Further information:
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact our project team: Dr. Theresa Dörres (doerres@chemiecluster-bayern.de; +49 174 977 39 13)
Cross-Cluster-Project “WECLA
“Alternative technological approaches for ingredients, materials and food – environment analysis on innovative start-ups and current research developments with the aim of knowledge transfer”.
A collaboration of clusters and initiatives:
Funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, as part of the “Cross-Cluster Bavaria 2022” funding initiative.
Transfer potentials of regional approaches of the Bavarian Bioeconomy Strategy
-from regional to Bavaria-wide to (inter-)national –
Background
The diversity of international, but also national and state-wide bioeconomy strategies, with partly different focus topics, is accompanied by a lot of potential. However, this also bears the risk of potential conflicts of objectives on the one hand and increases the challenge of information loss when transferring/upscaling regional approaches to other regions or other disciplines on the other hand. Since the end of 2020, Bavaria has also been pursuing its own bioeconomy strategy.
Objectives & focus activities
This is where the rebana project comes in – it should help to show transfer potentials of regional measures to state-wide to (inter-)national levels across sectors. The planned, (hybrid) event concept is intended to stimulate the exchange between interested multipliers, companies, but also politics and to contribute to the emergence of new, cross-sectoral value creation networks. The following three events across Bavaria are planned for implementation in 2022:
01 | Kulmbach | Thematic focus: “Bioeconomy at regional level”.
02 | Straubing | Main topic: “Bioeconomy – from regional to Bavaria-wide”.
03 | Munich | Thematic focus: “Bioeconomy – from Bavaria-wide to (inter-)national”.
You can find out all the news and details about the respective events in good time on our cluster websites http://www.chemiecluster-bayern.de | http://www.cluster-bayern-ernaehrung.de | http://www.umweltcluster.net and via our LinkedIn-Gruppe.
Questions? Comments? Interested?
If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Elisabeth Rieger (rieger@chemiecluster-bayern.de). They look forward to exchanging ideas with you!
General project information
Consortium:
Funded by: Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (funding initiative “Cross-Cluster Bavaria 2022”).
Project duration: 01.01. – 31.12.2022.
Supported by the “Bundesprogramm Transnationale Zusammenarbeit” of the “Bundesministerium des Innern und Heimat (BMI)”, our activities around the database-driven software Value-Chain-Generator go into the next round. With BE STROCAL! the software shall now be distributed nationwide and further users shall be actively involved.
Project goal
The aim of BE STROCAL! is to disseminate the database-supported software Value-Chain-Generator (VCG) in Germany and to inspire further German cluster institutions, regional developers and business promoters to use the software. Training sessions will be held to enable the new interested clusters to use the VCG. In addition, we want to support the new partners as a coach and jointly realize sustainable and bio-based value chains and initiate networking discussions between the companies. Jointly meeting working groups could provide a good framework for exchange.
BE STROCAL! should not only lead to a dissemination of the VCG within Germany and thus to an expansion of the database of companies and mapped manufacturing processes, but also to an increased networking of bioeconomy actors in Germany.
Database as the basis of a sustainable value chain?
This software, the so-called value chain generator, was developed in the European AlpLinkBioEco project. The 14 project partners involved, including Chemie-Cluster Bayern, filled the database with public information on actors from research and industry located in the Alpine region. Using an algorithm, the information contained in the database on processes with their input materials, end products, as well as by-products and waste streams, enables the cross-industry re-linking of suppliers and customers.
After AlpLinkBioEco, we already pursued the path taken together with the Cluster Neue Werkstoffe in the Bioeconomy cross-cluster project and tested the software on current challenges faced by member companies in Bavaria. In BE STROCAL! we are now taking another step forward and rolling out the project in Germany.
First steps in BE STROCAL!
Currently, possible user agreements and concepts for a test training are being worked out. After the test training at the end of December with our first partner BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg GmbH, we want to specifically promote the use of the value chain generator next year, conduct training sessions with other interested parties and actively support the new users as a coach in the development of ideas and networking in the sense of the bioeconomy.
Further information
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact our project team: Dr. Theresa Dörres (doerres@chemiecluster-bayern.de ; +49 174 977 39 13) or Dr. Elisabeth Rieger (rieger@chemiecluster-bayern.de; +49 151 407 598 26).
BE STROCAL! – BioEconomic regions grow through STROng loCAL value chains
An initiative of Chemie-Clusters Bayern GmbH
Funded by the “Bundesprogramm Transnationale Zusammenarbeit” of the “Bundesministerium des Innern und Heimat” (Project duration: 01.11.2021 to 30.11.2022)
LimnoPlast – Microplastics in Europe’s freshwater ecosystems: From sources to solutions
LimnoPlast, a Horizon 2020 funded EU-project that started in November 2019, approaches the topic of microplastics in freshwater ecosystems from a holistic perspective and therefore brings together the three very different disciplines environmental, technical and social sciences.
In the course of this Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA-ITN), 15 interdisciplinary young researchers from the fields of polymer and engineering sciences, toxicology and ecology, environmental, social and legal sciences as well as psychology are trained. They will investigate the origins of microplastics, its effects as well as technological and social solutions. Among other things, the sources and effects of microplastics on the freshwater ecosystems around the European urban areas of Aarhus, Amsterdam and Paris are being researched.
What distinguishes Limnoplast from similar previous studies is that besides studies on the direct impact of microplastics on people and the development of new polymers, the social scientific and economic aspects are also being examined – i.e. the effects of microplastics on society, the economy and, ultimately, on legal framework conditions.
The project’s aim is to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation within Europe and to promote the dialogue between the industry, research institutions, policy makers and environmental organisations. In cooperation with 12 European project partners who are directly involved in the scientific funding and support of the doctoral students, another 12 partner organisations from science and industry are involved in the project which is coordinated by the University of Bayreuth.
Out contact office ConTact was significantly involved in the preparations and the coordination of the LimnoPlast project application. LimnoPlast was first submitted in 2015 as part of the EU’s “Excellent Science” program. Over the past four years, ConTact has organised administrative tasks, coordinated the entire consortium and provided advice and feedback on the resubmission of the application, which was eventually approved in 2019.
In close cooperation with the coordinator Prof. Dr. Christian Laforsch, Chemie-Cluster Bayern is taking over the project management for the next four years. In addition to the contract preparation with the European Commission, an underlying administrative project structure was established, and the first kick-off meeting was successfully conducted in November 2019.
More information about the project
For questions and further information, do not hesitate to contact Dr. Elisabeth Rieger rieger@chemiecluster-bayern.de or Christoph Habel habel@chemiecluster-bayern.de
Horizon 2020 (ITN – Innovative Training Networks), 2019 – 2023
Homepage: www.limnoplast-itn.eu
As part of the cluster initiative of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, IBB Netzwerk GmbH and Chemie-Cluster Bayern work together in the cross-cluster project “ISEF-International Sustainable Economy Forum”.
Project objectives
Climate change and environmental degradation are forcing us to transform our lives and economies away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable raw materials, materials and processes. This is a global challenge and requires the participation of all of us. In order to collaborate successfully, we need to meet and exchange ideas. Therefore, the goal of this cross-cluster project is to establish the ISEF (International Sustainable Economy Form) as a platform for exchange and networking. We plan to hold the ISEF as a two-day face-to-face event on June 27/28, 2022 in Munich. High-ranking stakeholders from business and industry are invited, who are also allowed to determine the topics of the sessions. The program is framed by further interactive modules, such as funding advice, project workshops, matchmaking, with the aim to initiate and develop new, sustainable projects.
Further information
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact our project team: Dr. Matthias Scholz (scholz@chemiecluster-bayern.de; +49 173 653 17 28)
The project is funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, as part of the funding initiative “Cross-Cluster-Bavaria Bioeconomy”
As part of the Cluster Initiative of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, the New Materials Cluster and the Chemistry-Cluster Bavaria are working together in the cross-cluster project “Establishing new value chains in the bioeconomy in Bavaria – alternative technologies, bio-based chemicals and materials”.
Project objectives
The aim of the project is to establish new bio-based value chains and thus further advance the bioeconomy in Bavaria.
Based on the needs of established and young Bavarian companies, new value chains will be identified with the help of the Value Chain Generator Tool developed in the Interreg project AlpLinkBioEco. Based on publicly available information, the tool supports the identification of ideas for alternative or new value chains, the so-called “Biolink ideas”. In a second step, the tool uses an algorithm to generate a large number of possible supplier-customer links from specific companies.
In a subsequent potential analysis, topics and actors are selected and concrete measures are derived to initiate cooperations. Possible starting points and topics include products and basic chemicals from renewable raw materials and residues, the development of new biopolymers and biobased additives, and new methods and processes for biobased value creation. Particular emphasis is placed on involving member companies of the two clusters in order to jointly develop more sustainable products and services and initiate innovations.
First steps
Based on an internal training on the use of the Value Chain Generator, where the project already generated first implementation ideas in February, a usage concept for the tool is currently being developed and first Biolink ideas collected. The database of the Value Chain Generator will be continuously expanded to include relevant actors in Bavaria.
Further information
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact our project team: Theresa Dörres (doerres@chemiecluster-bayern.de; +49 174 977 39 13).
Cross-Cluster Project “Building new value chains in the bioeconomy in Bavaria – alternative technologies, bio-based chemicals and materials”.
An initiative of the clusters:
Chemie-Cluster Bayern GmbH
Cluster New Materials
The project is funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, as part of the funding initiative “Cross-Cluster-Bavaria Bioeconomy” (project duration: 01.01. to 31.12.2021)
