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SPIRE PPPSustainable Process Industries

through Resource & Energy

Efficiency

SPIRE PPP� Officially launched on 17 December 2013 in the framework of

HORIZON 2020

� First-ever 7-year innovation Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with

Europe’s process industry

Why a PPP?

� To solve problems together with industry

� To strengthen European industrial leadership

� To facilitate prioritization of R&I in line with the Europe2020

objectives and industry needs

� To leverage research and innovation elements

� To strongly commit industry to joint objectives

� EU process industries sit at the core of most industrial value chains and

are highly dependent on resources (energy, materials and water)

� 8 sectors representing together 6.8 million jobs in 450,000 enterprises

and turnover of over €1,600 billion/year

� They are struggling with competitiveness at global level and striving for

long-term sustainability. High risks and long-term investments. There is

a need for co-operation amongst them and along their value chains.

Why SPIRE?

A chain is as strong as its weakest link

How do you nurture a new Industrial Renaissance?

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� From raw resources to the end user industries =

the value chain

� From research to demonstrations and market =

the innovation chain

� From the big to small and medium enterprises =

the industrial chain

The systemic approach

PPP in practice…

While some of it is the same as in normal Horizon 2020:

� The financial rules are those of Horizon 2020

� Final responsibility for the Work Programme stays with the European

Commission

� Implementation remains with the European Commission:

selection of proposals, negotiation, review of progress and payments

There are significant advantages:

� Long-term commitment by European Commission to support the field

� Long-term commitment by industry to invest, with a need to demonstrate

its fulfilment (monitoring & KPIs)

� Roadmap-based strategy for the content of the calls

… the Governance

Partnership Board

European Commission

Private Partner

Association

• Develop work

programme

• Publish open calls

• Develop work

programme

• Publish open calls

• Discuss priorities

& call topics

• Assess progress

• Discuss priorities

& call topics

• Assess progress

• Discuss priorities

• Propose call topics

• Form consortia

• Apply to calls

• Discuss priorities

• Propose call topics

• Form consortia

• Apply to calls

Advice

Feedback

Feedback

Proposal

… the SPIRE Roadmap

Part 1: Vision

� A Sustainable Process Industry for a resource-efficient and low-carbon

economy:

Rejuvenate the European process industry base and help decoupling

economic growth from resource impact

Part 2: Research and Innovation Strategy

� 6 Key-components:

� Feed

� Process

� Applications

� Waste2Resource

� Horizontal issues

� Outreach and dissemination

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1. Feed: Increased energy and resource efficiency through optimal valorisation and smarter use and management of existing, alternative and renewable feedstock.

2. Process: Solutions for more efficient processing and energy systems for the process industry, including industrial symbiosis.

3. Applications: New processes to produce materials for market applications that boost energy and resource efficiency up and down the value chain.

4. Waste2Resource: Avoidance, valorisation and re-use of waste streams within and across sectors, including recycling of post-consumer waste streams and new business models for eco-innovation.

5. Horizontal: underpinning the accelerated deployment of the R&D&I opportunities identified within SPIRE through sustainability evaluation tools and skills and education programmes as well as enhancing the sharing of knowledge, best practices and cross-sectorial technology transfer.

6. Outreach: Reach out to the process industry, policy makers and citizens to support the realisation of impact through awareness, stimulating societal responsible behaviour.

Expected impacts

� 7 in Adaptable processes able to use different feedstocks

� 6 in Reduction and re-use of waste with ambition to closethe loop

� 9 in Innovative processes leading to CO2 reduction

� 8 in Green technologies to develop novel materials for newand existing markets

� 6 in Industrial processes reducing water use

� 4 using Technology uptake within/between sectors to enableindustrial symbiosis

R+I to integrate and demonstrate at least 40 innovativesystems and technologies:

� A reduction in fossil energy intensity of up to 30%

� A reduction in non-renewable, primary raw material intensityof up to 20%

� Efficiency improvement of CO2-equivalent footprints of up to40%

� 10 new types of high-skilled jobs

… and capable of achieving across all process industry sectors (by 2030):

� New systems and technologies developed in the relevant sectors

� Participation and benefits for SMEs

� Contribution to the reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions

� Contribution to the reduction of waste

� Contribution to the reduction in the use of material resources

� New high-skilled profiles and new curricula developed

� Private investment mobilised in relation to the PPP activities

� Contributions to new standards

� Scale of reduction in energy, material resources and waste

� Project results taken-up for further investments (into higher TRLs)

� Trainings for a higher quality workforce

� Patents and activities leading to standardisation

Core Key Performance Indicators

At PPP implementation level

At project impact level

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Total

project

proposals

Total

projects

funded

Total

Funding

Million €

SPIRE 1 Integrated Process Control 28 4 23.90

SPIRE 2

Adaptable industrial processes allowing the use of

renewables as flexible feedstock for chemical and

energy applications 21 3 23.00

SPIRE 3

Improved downstream processing of mixtures in

process industries 10 1 10.00

SPIRE 4

Methodologies, tools and indicators for cross-

sectorial sustainability assessment of energy and

resource efficient solutions in the process industry 9 3 1.50

68 11 58.40

Preliminary results SPIRE 2014 NMP calls

5

12

~ 18% success rate

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SPIRE 2014 awarded projects(starting January 2015)

SPIRE 1� RECOBA

� ProPAT

� DISIRE

� CONSENS

� iCspec

SPIRE 2� SteamBIO

� MethCO2

� MOBILE FLIP

SPIRE 3� PRODIAS

SPIRE 4� STYLE

� SAMT

� MEASURE

Overall >12 approved projects

+ projects out of EE18, LCE2 and Waste1

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Some of the Goals of the SPIRE 2014 Projects

� Demonstration of downsized, flexible and advanced process technologies and methodologies for rationalising and upgrading of diverse and underexploited renewable materials / biomass to:� Support the achievement of a circular and sustainable economy

� Make possible more efficient utilisation of resources (energy, raw materials)

� Reducing the EU dependence on imported rare earths/precious metals

� Establish value chains for the supply of valuable biomass components

� Develop solutions to recover the waste heat produced in energetic intensive processes of industrial sectors such as cement, glass, steelmaking and petrochemicals and transform it into useful energy

� Close technology gaps for robust real-time control technology, new measurement techniques and mathematical modelling to:� Enable products with higher and more consistent quality

� Yield processes that are resilient to variations in feed-stocks and to external disturbances

� Enable the migration of batch processes to flexible continuous intensified processes

� Enhance fast development of new products

� Develop a roadmap with recommendations for sustainability indicators, tools and methodologies for the SPIRE sectors so that the impact of the developed technologies can be

evaluated in a consistent manner, across sector boundaries and through value chains

� Building on past and current advancements

� Participation in shaping the future of the process industry and

addressing its R&D needs

� Synergy opportunities in and across the eight major process

industry sectors

� Up-to-date on technological developments, funding and EU

strategic agenda

� Addressing non-technological issues and barriers

� Visibility across and support from different sectors and players

Advantages of being in SPIRE

1. Prepare for the Horizon2020 work programmes for 2016-2017

� Gap analysis

� Defining strategic technological & non-technological topics

� “Calls Brokerage” event (members only)

� “Introducing 2014 projects” event

� “Connecting small and big businesses” event (members of A.SPIRE or

invitation only).”

� Setting up the knowledge and dissemination platform

� Thematic workshops (in autumn)

2. Follow-up on the contractual commitments of SPIRE PPP

� Impact Workshop (April) and in the Infodays (October)

� Follow up on the SPIRE projects and provide support in their

communication and dissemination activities

A.SPIRE 2015 events and prioritiesA.SPIRE 2015 events and priorities

29 – 30 June 2015

MEMBERSHIP OVERVIEW

Membership type Number of members

Associate member 8

Associations 12

Industry member (intermediate) 1

Industry member (large) 31

Industry member (medium) 4

Industry member (small) 11

Research member (large) 33

Research member (small) 28

Total 128

Sector Number of companies & associations

cement 5

ceramics 3

chemicals 26

engineering 8

minerals 2

non-ferrous metals 5

steel 7

water 2

Other 1

Total 59

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