Workplan

Objectives:

• to establish and maintain effective communication between partners,
• to particularly connect the participating companies and organizations,
• to coordinate partners so that all project goals are met on time and on budget,
• to perform all day-to-day contractual, administrative, financial and reporting tasks,
• to monitor and report project progress against goals and time scales,
• to ensure the role of contact point towards the European Commission and external stakeholders,
• to monitor Project progress and achievements as well as risks and contingencies,
• to maintain Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement,
• to form and manage the advisory board of experts.

Objectives:

• Establish an NPO aiming to the management of the ecosystem
• Define the pricing policy of accessing the ecosystem
• Reach additional funding schemes to facilitate participating entities, mainly SMEs
• Launch an open call to attract 10 additional test cases to the ecosystem
• Design and Implement a solid Plan for the collection, storage, exploitation and evaluation of data
• Establishment of Open Innovation Environment (OIE)
• Data Sharing and Data Usage Maximization
• Development of contact point, facilitating communication and allowing data sharing from pilot lines.

Objectives:

• To build an Ecosystem consisting of three clusters of PLs (concrete, conventional ceramics and advanced ceramics cluster)
• To integrate monitoring process and quality control systems to increase the robustness of the industrial processes aimed at advanced and multifunctional ceramic and concrete materials and structures
• To upgrade the existing Pilot Lines through integrating peripheral systems (ultrasonic mixing, advanced agitation technologies, and dispersant additives), in order to enhance the uniformity of NPs dispersion, avoid agglomerations and offer flexibility for a large variety of lightweight multifunctional materials.
• To fine tune cross-sectorial services before the validation step.

Objectives:

All concrete pilot lines will be able to offer the following services, divided into four major “product” categories

• Consultation, research strategy, quotation for test cases. Validation of workflows
• Component design, Component testing and optimisation, Sustainability and costs, 1st set of general requirements for production
• Pilot production, definition of production requirements adjusted to the client’s needs, assistance in the implementation at clients' production facility, production handbook, training, quality assurance routines

Objectives:

• To develop lightweight porcelain tiles able to improve the air quality by degrading NOx.
• To develop extruded bricks with nano porosifying agents
• To validate the ecosystem through the new test cases entering during the open call

Objectives:

• Production of lightweight valve for high vacuum applications from MAX phases with spark plasma sintering pilot line
• Manufacturing of lightweight Thermal Protection System for leading edges and nose-cones of re-entry vehicles through Agglomeration-Cold Compaction-SPS (ACSPS) technology
• To invite additional test cases during the open call for advanced ceramics under the LightCoce ecosystem

Objectives:

• To test the material characteristics of all LightCoce materials, components and structures
• Provide with appropriate testing of nanomaterials that will be produced towards verification of their properties, evaluation of production technique and optimize the synthesis parameters
• To perform Design Verification Tests and validation measurements on the pilot lines and on integrated characterisation equipment to ensure high quality production steering parameters for the pilot production
• To establish and ensure a common level of knowledge among Universities, Testing Laboratories and units of the pilot lines.
• To further develop and adjust the characterisation techniques for the new materials as a pre-requisite to standardization of measurement methods and products

Objectives:

• To develop models of the manufacturing processes to integrate the information from material modelling in the targeted industrial process
• To develop a monitoring and optimisation platform
• Maximise the impact of LightCoce ecosystem services through the development of decision support tools to help in the decision-making for the implementation/upgrading of manufacturing processes
• To develop an accurate toolset for materials modelling reducing testing and the trial and error process.
• To conduct predictive modelling of functional properties of materials.
• To optimize materials parameters and evaluate uncertainties in modelling.
• To conduct Energy and Exergy analysis of the systems to improve the flexibility and optimisation of the ecosystem.

Objectives:

• To ensure the compliance of project activities with standards and regulations either in force or under development
• To Evaluate the environmental impact of the process and products developed, and the potential uses, thanks to life cycle assessment (LCA) tools and methodologies following ISO 14040 and 14044
• To provide support to improve the safety of the innovative manufacturing process technology (Environment and worker's safety).
• To apply an eco-efficiency framework, to support industry to improve the environmental and economic performance of the new developed materials

Objectives:

• To develop market-uptake services for the clients of the OITB
• To enable potential future exploitation of the innovations to their full potential
• To ensure economic sustainability for the clients of the OITB
• To ensure control over the Intellectual Property created by the clients of the OITB

Objectives:

• Identification of multi-interests stakeholders;
• To analyse market data of lightweight materials and components in all European countries.
• To estimate the incremental economic value of the end users the project.
• Development of a realistic business plan and a market penetration strategy
• Continue to monitor the market situation and assess arising business opportunities.
• Demonstrate the potential of LightCoce solution in creating industry business opportunities.
• To design and implement a powerful communication campaign for engagement with key stakeholders
• Disseminating the project results to targeted meetings, workshops and conferences, and marketing tools
• To implement a training programme to raise the capacity of industry in the accessing such ecosystem