Summary:
An Italian association of companies, partner of the Horizon 2020 project “NewSkin: Innovation Eco-system to Accelerate the Industrial Uptake of Advanced Surface Nano-Technologies” offers up-scaling and testing facilities for the validation of innovative processes to manufacture nano-enabled industrial and consumer products.
Eligible entities include enterprises and R&D organizations.
The association is open to technological or research agreements.
Description:
An Italian association of companies, that represents over 3200 manufacturing and service SMEs and large entreprises is part of the Horizon 2020 project “NewSkin: Innovation Eco-system to Accelerate the Industrial Uptake of Advanced Surface Nano-Technologies”.
The NewSkin project aims to create an Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB) to provide the European Innovation Ecosystem with the necessary technologies, resources and services to uptake a set of game-changing, efficient and cost-effective innovative processes to manufacture nano-enabled industrial and consumer products, as well as the necessary testing capabilities to demonstrate the features of nano-enhanced goods.
The OITB structure is composed by a set of 55 demos and is used to show case of the commercial potential of NewSkin across different industries. OITB services will be available on a free basis through four competitive Open Calls that will be evaluated every six months over a period of two years (from October 2021 to June 2023). Mature projects (high Technology Readiness Level or Manufacturing Readiness Level) will be encouraged.
NewSkin OITB services include:
• Access to existing Pilot lines sites around Europe – Upscaling;
• Monitoring & Controlling;
• Modelling & Testing: prototyping, design, LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), test sites, Nanosafety assessment and RMS;
• Regulatory / Standardization;
• Innovation Management and Market Uptake (Business Plan definition, access to corporate funding, dissemination services).
NewSkin nano-enabled surfaces and membranes technological portfolio includes:
• The complete set of processes for large-scale manufacturing of graphene nano-enabled membranes (from continuous graphene production to nano-pore creation and functionalization as well as testing facilities).
• Continuous laser texturing, roll to roll (R2R) and Texturing During Moulding (TDM) nano-textures mass production processes.
• Pilot plant semi-industrial facilities for the definition of efficient automated controlled and nano-safe nano-coating processes for large components.
• Continuous PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) and CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) processes.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
Type of partner:
• Start-ups
• SMEs (Small and medium-sized enterprises)
• REC (Research organisations) including HES (Higher education establishments)
• Research & Development organizations
• LEs (Large enterprises)
• OTH (Other)
Different types of collaborations, ranging from research and development to technical cooperation agreement, depending on applicant project’s needs, interests, and feasibility to be carried out by the NewSkin project.
Stage of Development:
Project already started
Comments Regarding Stage of Development:
The NewSkin innovative manufacturing up-scaling and testing facilities will provide, during the open calls, the necessary tools to create and validate from TRL7 to higher (system prototype demonstration in operational environment) new technologies
IPR Status:
Other
Comments Regarding IPR Status:
All parties (including both the NewSkin OITB partners and the Open Call applicants) will exhaustively identify the background knowledge assets they will bring to the project and will provide access rights background for the cooperative implementation of the project.
Ownership of project results (including joint results generated by two or more partners) will belong to the parties having generated them. Ownership of project results (including joint results generated by two or more partners) will belong to the entities having generated them, if not differently agreed in the contract signed between the parties.
The successful applicants will sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with the NewSkin OITB partners covering all aspects of confidentiality.
External code:
TOIT20211029002
