The Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica (ITC), as a participant in the European project LightCoce:Building an Ecosystem for the up-scaling of lightweight multi-functional concrete and ceramic materials and structures, has developed various communication actions at the sectorial event CEVISAMA 2020 (03-07/02/2020 Feria Valencia-España). 

The ITC, in its stand located at a privileged point in the CEVISAMA Trade Fair (in a distributor at the main entrance) was also present with a staff of experts from its group of researchers in order to explain its R&D&I activity to visitors. In the case of LightCoce, through some tools as Roll Up and brochures describing the project.

The organization of CEVISAMA has estimated a total of 92,435 professional visitors to the event in 2020, including more than 21,000 foreigners from over 90 countries.

LightCoce is supported with H2020 funds from the European Union and its  aims is offering an open access Ecosystem for upscaling and testing multifunctional lightweight concrete and ceramic materials through 5 upgraded Pilot Lines (PLs) (targeting to Concrete, Conventional and Advanced Ceramics), as well as characterisation facilities, process modelling, quality assurance and monitoring, and standardisation, safety and innovation management services that will be accessible to the interested customers at fair conditions and cost.

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is in charge of coordinating this project whose consortium is made up of 26 partners from 9 EU countries, representing 5 large companies, 8 research and technology organisations (RTOs), 12 small and medium enterprises and 1 association.