PILOTS-03-2017

Pilot Lines for Manufacturing of Nanotextured surfaces with mechanically enhanced properties -

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Specific Challenge:

Nanostructured coatings or nanotextured surfaces provide improved scratch and abrasion resistance, super hardness and mechanical resistance that rivals diamond in performance, improved wear resistance and corrosion inhibition, bio-compatibility, control of reflectivity, sensing ability, self-cleaning surfaces improving many products such as technical textiles and papers, structural elements for machinery, construction elements, transportation, etc.

Nano-enhanced functional surfaces have huge potential in different sectors, including packaging, marine, water treatment, electronics, building and construction, automotive, transport, energy and other applications including textile, leather and industrial engineering.

The involved technologies to manufacture these surfaces or coatings are currently at a lower TRL level, and call for up-scaling, demonstration and validation in large scale pilot installations in operational environments, before industrial manufacturing can take place.

Scope

The proposed pilot lines should address the development, upscaling and demonstration in relevant industrial environments of reliable manufacturing processes to obtain nanostructured surfaces with mechanically enhanced properties.

They should use existing pilot lines as a starting point for development, incorporating new materials and methods and/or instrumentation with real time characterization for measurement, analysis and monitoring at the nanoscale to characterise relevant materials process properties;

The aim is to increase the level of robustness and repeatability of such industrial processes; to optimise and evaluate the increased performances of the production lines in terms of productivity and cost-effectiveness; and finally to assess the functionality and performance of the new materials/products.

Proposals should address the complete research-development-innovation cycle and obstacles remaining for industrial application, and involve a number of relevant materials producers and users, also considering the needs of SMEs.

Technology transfer should be prepared through technology services at affordable costs, facilitating the collaborating with EU SME and large industries, and the rapid deployment and commercialisation of the new technology.

Examples of possible developments include:

  • Upgrade existing production methods, extending current production capabilities of mass production injection moulding, or additive technologies such as Roll-2-Roll- and sheet-2-sheet printing, into the sub-100 nm regime.
  • Enhancing key properties of promising lab scale nano-enabled surfaces and upscale their production up to pilot level. Different technologies for nano-enabled surface production may be considered.
  • Applying such surfaces in sectors (more than one is preferred) where they may have strong social and economic impact.

Non-technological aspects key for the marketing of such products (e.g. standardization, regulatory issues, user acceptance, HSE aspects, LCA) need to be considered.

Activities are expected to focus on Technology Readiness Levels 4 to 6, and target Technology Readiness Level 7. This topic addresses cross-KET activities.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 5 and 8 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Expected Impact:

The action is expected to lead to a direct economic impact on the economy of the manufacturing industry as well as society, resulting from issues such as increased performance and durability of wear-intensive industrial components, reduction of infrastructure maintenance costs, and reduction of operational costs due to energy savings.

Functional nanotextured surfaces and nano structured coatings have a huge potential for many sectors, and embedded nanostructured functionalities in coatings and surfaces can alleviate problems from ice, pollutant, UV, fire, heat, marine life, wear, friction and corrosion. These factors cost global industry billions in maintenance, loss and downtime each year. For example, direct corrosion costs account for 3-4% of a country’s GDP worldwide. The same for wear costs. Energy losses due to friction in mechanical contacts reaches more than 10% of the GDP of a developed country. More sustainable production as well as products can also be expected, including an environmental impact, from using eco-friendly nanocoatings instead of traditional lubricants for example.

Integration of state-of-the-art nanotechnology in the traditional production of coatings or surfaces will give a market advantage and enhance the competitiveness of European industry.

The new functionalities achieved will have important impact on many sectors, including packaging, marine, water treatment, electronics, building and construction, automotive, energy, textile, leather and industrial engineering.

Enhanced manufacturing capacities in Europe and/or enhanced market opportunities for European enterprises. These impacts should be addressed in particular in the outline of the business case and exploitation strategy to be submitted with the proposal. The expected content of this outline is further detailed in the LEIT introduction, section 6.

The impact should be presented at three levels:

  • Impact on the consortium materials producers and users, and other involved industries, demonstrated in the form of reduced costs and full consideration of environmental and safety legislation.
  • Other existing or new materials manufacturers, describing the expected impact from further integration of the nano-enabled multifunctional materials into practical large-scale applications with producers outside the consortium,
  • Global impact in form of direct or derived benefits from competitive advantage of the new materials and products.
  • The impact will also be improved by a contribution to training and knowledge dissemination for building an educated workforce.

    Overall the action is expected to help driving the demand in Europe as well as support the penetration of new markets worldwide. This should include clear benefits to manufacturers, including SMEs, and new entrants into the market may be expected.

    Cross-cutting Priorities:

    Cross-cutting Key-Enabling Technologies (KETs)

    News flashes

    2017-12-05

    Flash Call Info:

    An overview of the evaluation results of call Stage2 of the Two stage call of H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 (flash call info) is now available under the "Additinoal documents" section on the topic page.

    2017-07-06

    FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS2017 PILOTS TOPICS (two-stage)

    Published: 14 October 2015Deadline: 4 May 2017Available budget: 48.66 M€

    The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.The results of the evaluation are as follows:

    Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 21Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 9Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals:62,239,241 €

    We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

    For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

    2017-06-06

    Flash Call Info

    In order to best ensure equal treatment, successful stage 1 applicants do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals, but a GENERALISEDFEEDBACK with information and tips for preparing the full proposal. The generalised feedback for topics CIRC-01-2016-2017 and CIRC-02-2016-2017 is published under the CallConditions of each topic.

    2017-05-30

    Flash Call Info:

    An overview of the evaluation results of call Stage 1 of the Two stage call of H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 (flash call info) is now available under the "Topic conditions & documents" section on the topic page.

    2017-05-17

    DEADLINE (second stage) of 2017 two-stage topics: 04.05.1721 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:

    PILOTS-03-20017: 9PILOTS-04-2017: 6PILOTS-05-2017: 6

    2017-05-05

    An overview of the evaluation results (called 'Flash Call Info') of thetopic FOF-12-2017 of H2020-FOF-2017call is now available under the 'Topic conditions & documents' section onthe correspondanttopic page.

    2017-04-27

    FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS

    H2020-IND-CE-2016-2017 (FOF (rtd) + SPIRE 2017 TOPICS)

    Published: 14 October 2015Deadline: 19 January 2017Available budget: FOF(rtd) 86.18 M€ + SPIRE 82.11 M€

    The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.The results of the evaluation are as follows:

    FOF (rtd)Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 154Number of inadmissible proposals: 2Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 36Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 183,778,494.32 €

    SPIRENumber of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 55Number of inadmissible proposals: 1Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals:19Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 99,381,088.79 €

    We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

    2017-03-08

    H2020-IND-CE-2016-17

    A total of 117 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic/type of action is shown below:

    • CIRC-01-2016-2017 (IA): 72• CIRC-02-2016-2017 (IA): 45

    2017-02-07

    Corrigendum - FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS

    H2020-IND-CE-2016-2017 (2017 PILOTS TOPICS)Please read "Deadline: 27 October 2016"

    2017-01-30

    FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTSH2020-IND-CE-2016-2017 (2017 PILOTS TOPICS)Published: 14 October 2015Deadline: 27 October 2017Available budget: 48,660,000 €

    The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call. The following overall thresholds were applied: 8/10

    The results of the evaluation are as follows: Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 69Number of inadmissible proposals: -Number of ineligible proposals: -Number of above-threshold proposals: 21Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 147.997.304 €We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals. Above-threshold proposals have been invited to submit a full proposal by 4 May 2017.Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS after that date. For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service .

    2017-01-25

    Deadline: 19.01.2017A total of 234 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:

    FOF-06-2017: 34FOF-07-2017: 28FOF-08-2017: 16FOF-09-2017: 57FOF-10-2017: 21FOF-12-2017: 15 IA + 6 CSA

    SPIRE-07-2017: 11SPIRE-08-2017: 11SPIRE-09-2017: 18SPIRE-10-2017: 10SPIRE-11-2017 2SPIRE-12-2017 1SPIRE-13-2017 4

    2017-01-18

    Rules of Participation:

    From 1 January 2017 Switzerland is associated to the whole Horizon 2020 programme, including the Societal Challenge calls. For more information please read the information sheet available here.

    2016-12-05

    Flash Call Info:

    An overview of the evaluation results of call H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 - Circular Economy (flash call info) is now available under the "Topic conditions & documents" section on the topic page.

    FAQs 2017:

    If you are applying for the 2017 topics under H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 - Circular Economy, do not forget to check new and archived FAQs relevant for your topic here.

    2016-11-08
    The submission session is now available for: CIRC-02-2016-2017(IA), CIRC-01-2016-2017(IA)
    2016-11-08

    Deadline (first stage) of 2017 two-stage topics: 27.10.1669 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:

    PILOTS-03-20017: 30PILOTS-04-2017: 14PILOTS-05-2017: 25

    2016-09-20
    The submission session is now available for: SPIRE-13-2017(CSA), SPIRE-07-2017(IA), SPIRE-12-2017(CSA), SPIRE-10-2017(RIA), SPIRE-11-2017(CSA), SPIRE-09-2017(IA), SPIRE-08-2017(RIA)
    2016-09-20
    The submission session is now available for: FOF-10-2017(IA), FOF-09-2017(IA), FOF-08-2017(IA), FOF-06-2017(RIA), FOF-07-2017(RIA), FOF-12-2017(IA-CSA)
    2016-09-07

    2016 CIRC topics - Deadline: 06.09.16

    A total of 26 proposals were submitted in response to the second stage of this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:CIRC-01a-2016 – 19CIRC-02a-2016 – 7

    2016-08-09

    Please note that the latest information on results (Flash Call Info) for the topics CIRC-01-2016 and CIRC-02-2016 corresponding to the first stage of two stage call (that closed on 8 March 2016) can be found in the "Additional Documents" section of these topics.

    Please note that the latest information on results (Flash Call Info) for the topics CIRC-03-2016, CIRC-04-2016, and CIRC-05-2016corresponding to the single stage call (that closed on 8 March 2016) can be found in the "Additional Documents" section of these topics.

    2016-08-03

    A revised version of the Work programme 2016-2017 has been adopted in 25/07/2016.

    The main changes in the call Industry 2020 in the Circular Economy sub-call Circular Economy concern:- New evaluation criteria and evaluation procedures for all topics.- Increase in available budget for CIRC-01-2017.- Changes in the challenge, scope or impact description of several topics related with the implementation of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

    2016-08-03
    The submission session is now available for: PILOTS-04-2017(IA), PILOTS-05-2017(RIA), PILOTS-03-2017(IA)
    2016-07-25

    Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2017 update

    After the update to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2017 of 25 July 2016, the following updates were made:

    • Open Access Data new provisions have been added for 2017 calls with an opening date on or after 26/07/2016.
    • The text for evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and procedure has been clarified.
    • The text for topics FOF-12-2017, SPIRE-07-2017, SPIRE-08-2017 and SPIRE-12-2017 has been modified.
    • The introduction of SPIRE topics under the call H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 has been modified.
    • The new CSA topic SPIRE-13-2017 'Potential of Industrial Symbiosis in Europe' has been added to the call H2020-IND-CE-2016-17.
    • The indicative budget for 2017 PILOTS topics under the call H2020-IND-CE-2017 was increased to €48.66 million in 2017.
    • The indicative budget for 2017 FOF topics (rtd) under the call H2020-IND-CE-2017 was increased to €86.18 million in 2017.
    • The indicative budget for 2017 SPIRE topics under the call H2020-IND-CE-2017 was increased to €82.11 million in 2017.
    2016-07-12

    Flash Call InfoCall identifier: H2020-IND-CE-2016-2017 (2016 PILOTS topics)Call title: Industry 2020 in the circular economyPublished: 14 October 2015Deadline: 24 May 2016 17:00:00

    Budget available: 32 M€

    The Commission has completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above call. The results of the evaluation are as follows:

    • Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 15
    • Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
    • Number of ineligible proposals: 0
    • Number of above-threshold proposals: 10
    • Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 64,639,106 €

    We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

    The number of proposals that can finally be funded depends on the available budget and the formal approval of grant agreements by the Commission.

    It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by November 2016.

    Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS after that date.http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html

    In case of questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries

    2016-05-20

    H2020-CIRC-2016-TwoStage, first stageThe evaluation of first stage proposals is now complete. The coordinators of proposals who failed to pass to the second stage have been informed in writing, and have each received an Evaluation Summary Report (ESR) setting out scores and comments.The “Flash info” published on the Participant Portal shows the key statistics related to this call, including number of proposals submitted, the number evaluated, and the number passing the thresholds and thus invited to the second stage.For successful first stage applicants, it is important to uphold the principle of equal treatment, and to ensure that all have a chance to benefit from the comments of experts. Therefore, instead of an ESR, this generalised feedback is provided now to all applicants invited to submit a full proposal at the second stage. You are kindly requested to take this feedback into account when preparing your full proposal. At the second stage you have a chance to address or clarify issues that should convince the second stage experts. Some or all of these experts may not be the same as those who reviewed your outline proposal.

    Summary of main shortcomings in first stage successful proposals

    CIRC-01:

    • The objectives did not always include quantitative targets or these targets were not always convincingly supported.• The concept description was not always focused and clear on the innovation potential, the circular economy view, the economic mechanisms and governance required for a swift on a specific circular value chain.• The role of end-users was not always sufficiently described with regards to their importance in the value chain or their involvement is missing at early stages • The expected TRL was not always sufficiently substantiated.• Large scale demonstrations were not always sufficiently explained and/or did not always have a clear co-design approach to justify the need for such demonstrations.• Expected economic and environmental impacts were not always adequately quantified and/or were not always sufficiently explained in relation to the demonstration. • Business models were not always sufficiently presented.

    CIRC-02:

    • The objectives did not always include quantitative targets or they were not always convincingly substantiated.• Objectives addressing the relevant legal, societal and market challenges were not always present.• The interest among fertilizer companies or other potential end-users of the recycled nutrient was not always demonstrated. • The role of end-users of recycled nutrient was not always sufficiently described, and often defined to contribute only in the last stages of the proposed action.• Quantitative information supporting the expected impact of the action was not always presented.• Metrics for the final capacity of the technology and its outputs were not always described.

    2016-05-18

    FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS (FLASH CALL INFO)Call for proposals: H2020-CIRC-2016-TwoStage, first stageCall Title: Industry H2020 in the Circular EconomyPublished: 14.10.2015Deadline: 08.03.2016 (first stage)

    Indicative available budget: EUR 80 millionBudget per topic/type of action with separate ‘call-budget-split’:

    CIRC-01-2016 - Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: design for circular values and supply chains /IA: EUR 60 million• CIRC-02-2016 - Water in the context of the circular economy: demonstrating the potential of efficient nutrient recovery from water /IA: EUR 20 million

    The Agency EASME has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call. The following overall thresholds were applied:• CIRC-01-2016: Overall threshold applied 8.0CIRC-02-2016: Overall threshold applied 8.0

    The results of the evaluation are as follows:• CIRC-01-2016: 70 proposals submitted, 19 above thresholds• CIRC-02-2016: 32 proposals submitted, 8 above thresholds

    Total number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 102Total number of inadmissible proposals: 1Total number of ineligible proposals: 0Total number of above-threshold proposals: 27Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 231.54 million

    We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals. Above-threshold proposals have been invited to submit a full proposal by 06.09.2016Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS after that date. Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Agency.For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service .

    2016-04-19

    An overview of the following evaluation results (flash call info) is now availableunder the tab Topic conditions and documents:

    • 2016 SPIRE topics
    • 2016 FOFtopics
    • 2016 PILOTS topics (first stage results)
    2016-03-09

    2016CIRCtopics - Deadline: 08.03.16

    Circular EconomyTOPICS - 138 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:

    CIRC-01 : 72CIRC-02 : 33CIRC-03 : 4CIRC-04 : 18CIRC-05 :11

    2016-01-25

    2016 FOF and SPIREtopics - Deadline: 21.01.16

    Factories of the Future TOPICS - 183 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:

    FoF-01 : 23FoF-02 : 20FoF-03 : 41FoF-04 : 27FoF-05 : 3ICT FoF-11 : 49ICT FoF-13 : 20

    Sustainable Process Industries TOPICS - 62 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:

    SPIRE-01: 15 SPIRE-02: 22SPIRE-03: 9SPIRE-04: 13SPIRE-05: 2SPIRE-06: 1For Energy-Efficient Building topics, see here

    2015-12-14

    Deadline (first stage) of 2016 two-stage topics: 08.12.15

    59 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:

    PILOTS-01-2016: 27PILOTS-02-2016: 32

    call topic details
    Call status: Closed
    Publication date: 2015-10-14 (9 years ago)
    Opening date: 2016-05-11 (8 years ago)
    Closing date: 2016-10-27 (8 years ago)
    Procedure: two-stage

    Budget: 48660000
    Expected grants: not specified
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