Affordable weight reduction of high-volume vehicles and components taking into account the entire life-cycle
Call text (as on F&T portal)
View on F&T portalOne of the principal levers to improve the energy efficiency, performance and range of vehicles, and reduce their impact on the environment, is to decrease their weight. This is particularly important for conventionally-powered vehicles to reduce CO2 emissions but also for EVs in which the relatively limited range and high costs, linked to the still comparatively low production volumes, remain critical factors that determine their competitiveness.
Previously-conducted EU research projects have already demonstrated the fact that the adoption of advanced grades of steel, metal alloys, aluminium, novel plastics and biomaterials, novel high-strength light-weight ceramics and composites can lead to a drastic reduction in the weight of a wide range of vehicle components. However the outcome of these activities is also that the additional cost for each kilogram saved is still too high to represent a revolutionary approach enabling intensive use of such lightweight materials particularly in vehicles intended for mass-production.
Correspondingly it is necessary to address this issue directly and urgently in order to identify solutions for the significant weight reduction of vehicles, and in particular electrified cars, which are cost-effective and viable with respect to the intended production volumes and from the entire life-cycle perspective, improving performance without compromising crashworthiness and durability. Specifically the principal focus should be on large production volumes exploiting economies of scale, targeting production volumes of at least 50000 units per annum, while investigating also the opportunity for developing common solutions across different types of vehicle.
Scope
The principal focus should be on large production volumes exploiting economies of scale, targeting production volumes of at least 50000 units per annum, while investigating also the opportunity for developing common solutions across different types of vehicle.
A holistic, integrated and cost-driven approach should be pursued in order to optimize the use of lightweight materials solutions in all vehicle structures, subsystems and components (with the exception of concepts for stand-alone powertrains), considering the entire value chain from a life-cycle perspective: materials, tools, process, assembly and end-of-life.
Materials engineering should address the development of new low density/high strength and highly formable materials (e.g. steels, alloys, aluminium, castings, polymers, biomaterials, ceramics and reinforcements) and their combination (e.g. composites, sandwiches, high strength foams) at affordable prices starting from less expensive sources, also via recycling and/or processes which are less energy-demanding. Furthermore, materials engineering should address corrosion, thermal expansion, joining (e.g. bonding, riveting, friction-stir based technologies, etc.) and recycling issues of multi-material designs, one essential prerequisite being the widespread availability and minimal CO2 footprint of the candidate materials.
Manufacturing engineering should address both the need to use less energy-intensive and more sustainable technologies, and the opportunity to speed-up and improve the efficiency of lightweight part production also through the combination of different manufacture steps, moving towards new approaches specific for new materials, including cost-effective multi-material joining technologies as well as the formability of tailored blanks material hybrid parts, and considering also effective multi-material surface treatments.
Design should pursue approaches based on both “right material for the right application” and “multi-functional optimization” in order to exploit the lightweight materials properties, optimizing their use through functional integration of multi-material solutions, including design for recycling. In view to further reduce the environmental footprint of the vehicles, the use of recycled high added-value materials should be considered.
Virtual engineering should support the multi-functional design for the optimization of performance (including crashworthiness, durability, etc.), developing and applying methods and tools to enable the efficient and effective simulation of multi-functional, multi-material solutions as well as of sustainable manufacturing technologies in order to minimize material use and energy consumption. Importantly Life Cycle Analysis (LCA should support the entire design and development process.
The activities are required to identify solutions for the weight reduction of vehicles, including, but not limited to, electrified cars which, through a comprehensive analysis, should be demonstrated to be both viable, in terms of cost and production, and sustainable from the life-cycle perspective.
The solutions must be validated at the application level, with full verification of the virtual engineering approach, to demonstrate improved performance without any compromise in terms of crashworthiness and durability. An assessment of the applicability of the solutions developed across different vehicle types is also expected.
This topic is a NMBP contribution to the European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI) and was developed in close collaboration with EGVI. It complements the EGVI activities in the Work Programme part of the Societal Challenge “Smart, green and integrated transport”.
The implementation of this topic is intended to start at TRL 4 and target TRL 6.
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:Specific targets that should be achieved in short- to medium-term (within a time frame of about 6 years following the completion of the project) include:
- 10 % reduction in energy consumption of vehicle due to weight reduction (with corresponding impact in terms of CO2 emissions depending on the vehicle type);
- Cost-effective weight savings depending on intended production volumes, eg.:
- For 50000 units per annum: at least 6 €/kg-saved;
- For 100000+ units per annum: at least 3 €/kg-saved;
- At least 6% improvement in LCA environmental impact ("from cradle to grave") in terms of GWP (Global Warming Potential).
Proposals should include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the Introduction to the LEIT part of this Work Programme.
Cross-cutting Priorities:News flashes
FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS2017 two-stage TOPICS
Published: 14 October 2015Deadline: 4 May 2017Available budget: 235.47 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): 107Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 55Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals:343.422.171 €
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.
For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
DEADLINE (second stage) of 2017 two-stage topics: 04.05.17107 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:
NMBP-04-2017: 7NMBP-05-2017: 10NMBP-06-2017: 14NMBP-07-2017: 6NMBP-12-2017: 6NMBP-14-2017: 2NMBP-15-2017: 10NMBP-19-2017: 7NMBP-20-2017: 6NMBP-22-2017: 8NMBP-25-2017: 3NMBP-28-2017: 2NMBP-29-2017: 2NMBP-35-2017: 4BIOTEC-05-2017: 10BIOTEC-06-2017: 7BIOTEC-07-2017: 3
FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS H2020-NMBP-2016-2017 (2017single-stage TOPICS)
Published: 14 October 2015Deadline: 19 January 2017Available budget: CSA : 8.4 M€ + NMBP-13-2017 (X-KET): 15 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:
CSA topicsNumber of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 16Number of inadmissible proposals: 1Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 10Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 14,398,535.25 €
NMBP-13-2017 topicNumber of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 62Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 7Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 28,946,700.00 €
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.
Corrigendum - FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS
H2020-NMBP-2016-2017 (2017 two-stage TOPICS)Please read "Deadline: 27 October 2016"
FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS H2020-NMBP-2016-2017 (2017 two-stage TOPICS)
Published: 14 October 2015Deadline: 27 October 2017Available budget: 235,470,000 €
The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call. The following overall thresholds were applied:NMBP-04-2017 8,5/10NMBP-05-2017 8,5/10NMBP-06-2017 8,5/10NMBP-07-2017 8,5/10NMBP-22-2017 8,5/10NMBP-25-2017 8,5/10NMBP-28-2017 8,5/10NMBP-29-2017 8,5/10NMBP-35-2017 8,5/10NMBP-12-2017 8/10NMBP-14-2017 8/10NMBP-15-2017 8/10NMBP-19-2017 8/10NMBP-20-2017 8/10BIOTEC-05-2017 8/10BIOTEC-06-2017 8/10BIOTEC-07-2017 8/10
The results of the evaluation are as follows: Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 421Number of inadmissible proposals: -Number of ineligible proposals: 2Number of above-threshold proposals: 108Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 653,198,271 €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.
Deadline of 2017 single-stage topics: 19.01.2017
A total of 78 proposals were submitted in response to this call. The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:
BIOTEC-08-2017: 2NMBP-13-2017: 62NMBP-16-2017: 2NMBP-31-2017: 2NMBP-34-2017: 7NMBP-37-2017: 1NMBP-38-2017: 2
Erratum: Deadline (first stage) of 2017 two-stage topics: 27.10.16
Deadline (first stage) of 2017 two-stage topics: 21.10.16421 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:
NMBP-04-2017: 51NMBP-05-2017: 53NMBP-06-2017: 81NMBP-07-2017: 21NMBP-12-2017: 10NMBP-14-2017: 3NMBP-15-2017: 27NMBP-19-2017: 25NMBP-20-2017: 15NMBP-22-2017: 35NMBP-25-2017: 6NMBP-28-2017: 8NMBP-29-2017: 14NMBP-35-2017: 27BIOTEC-05-2017: 16BIOTEC-06-2017: 18BIOTEC-07-2017: 7
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 introduction of the following parts have been modified: o BIOTEC topics under call H2020-NMBP-2016-17. o MODELLING topics under call H2020-NMBP-2016-17
- The text for evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and procedure has been clarified.
- The text for topics NMBP-22-2017, BIOTEC-05-2017, BIOTEC-06-2017 and BIOTEC-07-2017 has been modified.
- The following two new CSA topics have been added to the call H2020-NMBP-2017: o NMBP-37-2017 Mapping a path to future supply chains o NMBP-38-2017 Support for the enhancement of the impact of PILOT projects.
- Other Action 5. Exploitation Strategy and Innovation Consultants (ESIC) has been cancelled. Other Action 6. Exploitation Strategy and Innovation Consultants (ESIC) has been changed to other action 5. Exploitation Support Services and the text has been revised.
- The following new actions have been added: o 8. Study on due diligence and risk assessment of KETs projects by investors o 9. Best practise for identifying and assessing the dual-use issues in enabling technologies research – preliminary study o 10. Addressing dual-use issues in enabling technologies research
- The indicative budget for call H2020-NMBP-2017 was increased to €253.87 million in 2017.
Flash Call Info
Call identifier: H2020-NMBP-2016-2017 (2016 Two-stage topics)Call title: Call for Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology and ProductionPublished: 14 October 2015Deadline: 24 May 2016 17:00:00
Budget available: 174.08 M€
- BIOTEC-02-2016 03-2016: 32 M€
- NMBP-01-2016 + 020-2016 + 03-2016 + 23-2016 + 26-2016: 78.08 M€
- NMBP-09-2016 + 10-2016: 32 M€
- NMBP-17-2016 + 18-2016: 32M€
The Commission has completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above call. The results of the evaluation are as follows:
TOPICS BIOTEC-02-2016 + 03-20016Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 17Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 8Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 48,417,925 €
NMBP-01-2016 + 020-2016 + 03-2016 + 23-2016 + 26-2016Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 36Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 20Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 116,470,292 €
NMBP-09-2016 + 10-2016Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls):16Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 6Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 34,039,531 €
NMBP-17-2016 + 18-2016Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 15Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 6Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 32,301,327 €
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 Servicehttp://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries
An overview of the following evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the tab Topic conditions and documents:
- 2016 NMBP single stage topics
- 2016 NMBP two-stage topics (first stage results)
Deadline of 2016 single stage topics: 21.01.1638 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:
Type of Action: CSA
BIOTEC-04: 3NMBP-24: 1NMBP-27: 2 NMBP-30: 1NMBP-31: 2NMBP-32: 1NMBP-33: 4NMBP-36: 1
Type of Action ERANET-co-FUND
BIOTEC-01: 2NMBP-11: 1NMBP-21: 1
Type of Action RIA (Green Vehicles topic)
NMBP-08: 19
Deadline (first stage) of 2016 two-stage topics: 08.12.15305 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topics is shown below:
NMBP-01-2016: 25NMBP-02-2016: 17NMBP-03-2016: 37NMBP-09-2016: 17NMBP-10-2016: 61NMBP-17-2016: 42NMBP-18-2016: 4NMBP-23-2016: 9NMBP-26-2016: 17BIOTEC-02-2016: 47BIOTEC-03-2016: 29
Opening date: 2015-10-15 (11 years ago)
Closing date: 2016-01-21 (10 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage
Budget: 16,000,000
Expected grants: not specified
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