HORIZON EUROPE
European
Scope:Specific challenge:Decentralised on-site plants and modular approaches towards small- and medium-scale production will play a significant role in tomorrow’s process industry. However, the use of highly intensified, miniaturized equipment is largely restricted to gas/liquid and liquid/liquid systems, while most processes applied in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, as well as industries processing steel, glass, cement, non-ferrous metals, or minerals, involve solids as reactants, catalysts, intermediates or (by-)products. If these processes are to be transferred to intensified process equipment, it is likely that difficulties associated with the presence of particulate solids will be encountered, such as fouling or blockages. Robust and sustainable solutions to these problems are hardly available. This hampers the industrial realization of processes involving solids handling.
A further challenge of increasing importance for these industries comes from the increasingly demanding customer expectations with regard to product properties. These specific needs have to be met by developing fast and flexible processes that allow for design and development of tailo...
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Scope:Specific challenge:Decentralised on-site plants and modular approaches towards small- and medium-scale production will play a significant role in tomorrow’s process industry. However, the use of highly intensified, miniaturized equipment is largely restricted to gas/liquid and liquid/liquid systems, while most processes applied in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, as well as industries processing steel, glass, cement, non-ferrous metals, or minerals, involve solids as reactants, catalysts, intermediates or (by-)products. If these processes are to be transferred to intensified process equipment, it is likely that difficulties associated with the presence of particulate solids will be encountered, such as fouling or blockages. Robust and sustainable solutions to these problems are hardly available. This hampers the industrial realization of processes involving solids handling.
A further challenge of increasing importance for these industries comes from the increasingly demanding customer expectations with regard to product properties. These specific needs have to be met by developing fast and flexible processes that allow for design and development of tailor-made products while keeping the time-to-market as short as possible. One possible solution is to build on continuous processes, which can significantly reduce development time as well as scale-up efforts.
Scope:Methods should be developed for the handling of solids in continuous production units. This can be achieved either by the miniaturization of currently available devices or – to a great extent – by completely new approaches to the processing of solids. Projects should apply a holistic approach towards relevant processes in which solids are an intrinsic part. Rather than the core processes for solids handling, the whole process design should be considered, in particular downstream processing operations such as catalyst recycling, solids isolation, waste treatment, or waste prevention. This can be realised by means of flexible, e.g. modular and fast process design. Such an approach would foster regionalised production. Case studies should be included on several of the following aspects:
- Metering of solids
- Advanced analytic systems
- Transport of solids
- Control of agglomeration
- Reduction of fouling
- Cleaning concepts, e.g. CIP
- Solid separation and recycling
- Regulatory requirements
For this topic, proposals should include an outline of the initial exploitation and business plans, which will be developed further in the proposal project.
Activities expected to focus on Technology Readiness Levels 5-7.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 6 and 10 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:
Novel, efficient and cost effective production concepts realized in commercially available process intensified equipment, respectively process equipment modules.
Innovative modules allowing to process solids in medium to small scale production units (particular emphasis should be given to the SPIRE sectors).
Amelioration of chemical applications accessible via process intensified reaction systems through whole process design with focus on solids (downstream) processing operations.
Shorter times to process/market and higher production capacity.
Cross-sectorial technology transfer
Type of action: Innovation Actions
Cross-cutting Priorities:Contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs)SPIRE
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Consortium characteristics
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The aid is European, you can apply to this line any company that is part of the European Community.
characteristics of the Proyecto
Los costes de personal subvencionables cubren las horas de trabajo efectivo de las personas directamente dedicadas a la ejecución de la acción. Los propietarios de pequeñas y medianas empresas que no perciban salario y otras personas físicas que no perciban salario podrán imputar los costes de personal sobre la base de una escala de costes unitarios
Los otros costes directos se dividen en los siguientes apartados: Viajes, amortizaciones, equipamiento y otros bienes y servicios. Se financia la amortización de equipos, permitiendo incluir la amortización de equipos adquiridos antes del proyecto si se registra durante su ejecución. En el apartado de otros bienes y servicios se incluyen los diferentes bienes y servicios comprados por los beneficiarios a proveedores externos para poder llevar a cabo sus tareas
La subcontratación en ayudas europeas no debe tratarse del core de actividades de I+D del proyecto. El contratista debe ser seleccionado por el beneficiario de acuerdo con el principio de mejor relación calidad-precio bajo las condiciones de transparencia e igualdad (en ningún caso consistirá en solicitar menos de 3 ofertas). En el caso de entidades públicas, para la subcontratación se deberán de seguir las leyes que rijan en el país al que pertenezca el contratante
Characteristics of financing
List of countries and applicable rules for funding: described in part A of the General Annexes of the General Work Programme.
Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in part B and C of the General Annexes of the General Work Programme.
EVALUATION
3.1 Evaluation criteria and procedure, scoring and threshold: described in part H of the General Annexes of the General Work Programme, with the following exceptions:
The threshold for the criteria Excellence and Impact will be 4. The overall threshold, applying to the sum of the three individual scores, will be 12.
In case of equal overall scores in the ranked list, the priority order of proposals will be established in accordance with part H of the General Annexes, except that proposals will be ranked on the basis of individual scores for the Impact criterion before the Excellence criterion.
For this topic the evaluation criteria are applied as follows:
1. Excellence
• Clarity and importance of the objectives;
• Soundness of the concept, including trans disciplinary considerations;
• Credibility of the proposed approach;
• Readiness of the technology for implementing the pilot;
• Progress beyond the state of the art in production.
2. Impact **
The extent to which the outputs of the p... Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
List of countries and applicable rules for funding: described in part A of the General Annexes of the General Work Programme.
Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in part B and C of the General Annexes of the General Work Programme.
EVALUATION
3.1 Evaluation criteria and procedure, scoring and threshold: described in part H of the General Annexes of the General Work Programme, with the following exceptions:
The threshold for the criteria Excellence and Impact will be 4. The overall threshold, applying to the sum of the three individual scores, will be 12.
In case of equal overall scores in the ranked list, the priority order of proposals will be established in accordance with part H of the General Annexes, except that proposals will be ranked on the basis of individual scores for the Impact criterion before the Excellence criterion.
For this topic the evaluation criteria are applied as follows:
1. Excellence
• Clarity and importance of the objectives;
• Soundness of the concept, including trans disciplinary considerations;
• Credibility of the proposed approach;
• Readiness of the technology for implementing the pilot;
• Progress beyond the state of the art in production.
2. Impact **
The extent to which the outputs of the project could contribute at the European and/or International level to:
• The expected impacts listed in the work programme under the relevant topic;
• Soundness of the business cases and business plans and commitment to first exploitation / manufacturing;
• Evidence of the market potential and of the competitive technology advantage that will be gained through the pilot line;
• Potential of creating jobs in Europe;
• Effectiveness of the proposed measures to communicate the project, and disseminate the project results ,including appropriate management of IPR;
• Contribution, where appropriate, to standards and to skills and educational training.
3. Quality and efficiency of the implementation
• Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the allocation of tasks and resources;
• Coverage of the value chain (RTOs, materials, equipment and technology suppliers and end-users);
• Competences, experience and complementarity of the individual participants, as well as of the consortium as a whole;*
• Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures, including risk management.
Operational Capacity (selection criterion)
* As a separate step in the evaluation, expert evaluators must indicate whether the members of the consortium possess at least the minimum competences needed to carry out the proposed work.
** The score for the criterion “impact” will be multiplied by 1.5
3.2 Guide to the submission and evaluation process
Proposal page limits and layout: Please refer to Part B of the standard proposal template.
Indicative timetable for evaluation and grant agreement:
Information on the outcome of one-stage evaluation: maximum 5 months from the final date for submission.
Signature of grant agreements: maximum 3 months from the date of informing successful applicants.
Provisions, proposal templates and evaluation forms for the type(s) of action(s) under this topic:
Innovation Action:
Specific provisions and funding rates
Standard proposal template (administrative forms and structure of technical annex)
Standard evaluation form
Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Additional provisions:
Horizon 2020 budget flexibility
Classified information
Technology readiness levels (TRL) – where a topic description refers to TRL, these definitions apply.
Financial support to Third Parties – where a topic description foresees financial support to Third Parties, these provisions apply.
Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 actions, and proposals must refer to measures envisaged. Where relevant, proposals should also provide information on how the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the project, such as details on what types of data the project will generate, whether and how this data will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.
Additional information about the call
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