CALL: Breakthroughs to improve process industry resource efficiency (Processes4Planet partnership) (RIA)

This destination will directly support the following Key Strategic Orientations:

Making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy through the transformation of its mobility, energy, construction and production systems.
Promoting an open strategic autonomy by leading the development of key digital, enabling and emerging technologies, sectors and value chains to accelerate and steer the digital and green transitions through human-centred technologies and innovations.
Creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society, prepared and responsive to threats and disasters, addressing. inequalities and providing high-quality health care, and empowering all citizens to act in the green and digital transitions.

Summary

This call is a lump sum funding.

Proposals should:

Develop disruptive process technologies to improve resource efficiency, such as those based on: process intensification; or to prevent and minimise waste generation
Where relevant advanced process technologies and their combinations need to be developed and supported by advanced materials innovation and the implementation of enabling digital technologies including advanced concepts on process control and data driven Artificial Intelligence. The proposals should include energy efficiency, techno-economic and life-cycle assessments considering the overall process. This should also include the assessment of possible societal and environmental impact and the effects on the workplace.

Projects outcomes will enable achievement of the objectives of Processes4Planet partnership by designing processes for maximum resource efficiency.

Outcomes

The topics serving the objectives of this destination are structured as follows:

Expected impacts

Proposals should contribute to the achievement of one or more of the following impacts:

Strengthened EU cybersecurity capacities and European Union sovereignty in digital technologies
More resilient digital infrastructures, systems and processes
Increased software, hardware and supply chain security
Secured disruptive technologies
Smart and quantifiable security assurance and certification shared across the EU
Reinforced awareness and a common cyber security management and culture.