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In response to the ambitions of the European Green Deal and the challenge of making European industries more competitive, the European Commission has published in February 2024 a ‘Communication on advanced materials for industrial leadership’. It highlights four strategic priority areas, which will serve as a starting point for establishing common objectives and priorities for R&I in advanced materials: energy, mobility, construction and electronics. This new initiative is part of a wider context in which the issue of advanced materials is gaining momentum, with the adoption in March of a European Critical Raw Materials Act, the recent launch of a Technology Council on Advanced Materials and the forthcoming establishment of a dedicated partnership ("Innovative Materials for EU - IAM4EU) and an Advanced Materials Academy.
With demand for advanced materials expected to increase significantly in the coming years, accelerating research in this field, the development and manufacture of advanced materials, as well as their adoption by industry, is a major challenge for ensuring competitiveness and the green and digital transition in Europe. These issues linked to advanced materials also reflect the challenges faced by industries in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
In this context, and in partnership with the regional clusters Polymeris, Axelera and INFRA 2050, the 2024 edition of the ‘Rendez-vous Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes’ will be dedicated to advanced materials, with a particular focus on the chemicals and plastics industries. The event will look at the solutions that advanced materials can provide in these two sectors, such as lightweighting, recyclability, safe and sustainable by design – applied to the energy, mobility, construction and electronics sectors.
The link between research, innovation and the industrial application of these materials is particularly important and will also be addressed, given the constant development of new advanced materials, their evolution and the need to adapt them to different industrial sectors. Advanced materials raise a variety of issues for which joint work between the research and industrial sectors is central: recycling, circularity, R&D, adaptation of production processes/equipment to these new materials, etc.
With demand for advanced materials expected to increase significantly in the coming years, accelerating research in this field, the development and manufacture of advanced materials, as well as their adoption by industry, is a major challenge for ensuring competitiveness and the green and digital transition in Europe. These issues linked to advanced materials also reflect the challenges faced by industries in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
In this context, and in partnership with the regional clusters Polymeris, Axelera and INFRA 2050, the 2024 edition of the ‘Rendez-vous Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes’ will be dedicated to advanced materials, with a particular focus on the chemicals and plastics industries. The event will look at the solutions that advanced materials can provide in these two sectors, such as lightweighting, recyclability, safe and sustainable by design – applied to the energy, mobility, construction and electronics sectors.
The link between research, innovation and the industrial application of these materials is particularly important and will also be addressed, given the constant development of new advanced materials, their evolution and the need to adapt them to different industrial sectors. Advanced materials raise a variety of issues for which joint work between the research and industrial sectors is central: recycling, circularity, R&D, adaptation of production processes/equipment to these new materials, etc.
- Company mission
- 02006001 - Materials, components and systems for construction02007019 - Lightweight materials02007015 - Properties of Materials, Corrosion/Degradation06006005 - Biobased high-performance materials02007005 - Composite materials
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- Brussels, Belgium
Practical information
- Where
- 1000 Brussels Belgium
- When
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- Host organisation
- AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES ENTREPRISES
- Website
- https://www.auvergnerhonealpes-entreprises.fr/event/rendez-vous-auvergne-rhone-…
Description
To find out more about the European issues surrounding advanced materials in the chemicals and plastics sectors, take part in the next edition of the Rendez-vous Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in Brussels, organised by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Entreprises Agency, on 3 and 4 December.
You are a company, an academic institution, a research centre or a support structure in the advanced materials sector, particularly in the fields of chemistry and plastics processing, and you would like to :
Understand current or forthcoming European regulations relating to advanced materials
Get to know the Brussels, institutional and European ecosystem through the many networking opportunities available
Discover European funding opportunities
Gain visibility and develop your network of European partners
As with previous editions, the aim is to mobilize regional players in the sector (companies, clusters, academics) to connect them with European institutions and our European partners, provide them with opportunities (European funding, business), and raise awareness of their interest in the field through a better understanding of the European regulatory framework.
You are a company, an academic institution, a research centre or a support structure in the advanced materials sector, particularly in the fields of chemistry and plastics processing, and you would like to :
Understand current or forthcoming European regulations relating to advanced materials
Get to know the Brussels, institutional and European ecosystem through the many networking opportunities available
Discover European funding opportunities
Gain visibility and develop your network of European partners
As with previous editions, the aim is to mobilize regional players in the sector (companies, clusters, academics) to connect them with European institutions and our European partners, provide them with opportunities (European funding, business), and raise awareness of their interest in the field through a better understanding of the European regulatory framework.