COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020

Solutions for Critical Raw Materials Under Extreme Conditions (CRM-EXTREME)

Maria Letizia Ruello (IT) Chair MEETS, Lille, 6 May 2016

1. COST OVERVIEW - Policies

COST is the first and widest European framework for the transnational coordination of nationally funded research activities

COST mission

✔ to enable breakthrough scientific developments

✔ leading to new concepts and products

✔ contributing to building Europe’s research and innovation capacities

1. COST OVERVIEW - Networking Tools

COSTNETWORKING TOOLS

COSTNETWORKING TOOLS

MC & CORE GROUPMEETINGS

MC & CORE GROUPMEETINGS

WGMEETINGS

WGMEETINGS

WORKSHOPS &

CONFERENCES

WORKSHOPS &

CONFERENCES

DISSEMINATIONDISSEMINATION

SHORT TERMSCIENTIFIC MISSIONS

SHORT TERMSCIENTIFIC MISSIONS

TRAINING SCHOOLSTRAINING SCHOOLS

COST Action is a science&technology

network organisedthrough a range of

2. Background What's the problem?

✔ The lifeblood of the European industry is increasingly under pressure!

✔ Some ROW MATERIALS (like Cr, Co, Nb, W, Y), that confer specific characteristics to high-tech materials, are now CRITICAL (rare / expensive / not available)

✔ Difficulties in the access to critical raw materials (CRMs) are expected to depress industrial sectors vital to Europe

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REDUCE THE DEPENDENCE FROM CRMs USED

IN EXTREME CONDITIONS

extreme conditions

loading

friction

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strategic sectors

manufacturing

energytransportation

2. Background What's the goal?

Annex V to the Report of the Ad-hoc Working Group on defining critical raw materials- Enterprise and Industry Directorate General, EC

Communication form the Commission (2008) 699 “The raw materials initiative – meeting our critical needsfor growth and jobs in Europe”, Document {SEC(2008) 2741}

MEMO/12/182 (Brussels, March 13, 2012) - “... EU challenges China's export restrictions on rare earthsWhich raw materials are at issue in this case? ... Which industries are most concerned by the current case?"

3. Reason for the Action - Does Europe want it?

The growing number of EU researchers working on CRMs puts EU in the condition to take the leadership in this field

EU can count on its excellence in areas of knowledge crucial to CRMs development and application

EU high-tech SMEs and strategic automotive, aerospace and next generation energy industries can assure suitable innovation paths from labs to market

3. Reason for the Action - Can we do it?

➔ coordinating and integrating the ongoing fundamental and applied research

➔ avoiding fragmentation of researchers

➔ catalysing strategic advances

➔ strengthening the interaction between research institutions, SMEs, and industries

COST with ist networking tools is a perfect instrument for

3. Reason for the Action - Why COST Action?

Complementary with other EU programmes

Each complementary programme tackles one or few specific issues needing of an action of redial that the networking tools of a

COST Action can do

4. Objectives and Impact - Objectives

Research Coordination 1. Implement the successful integration of fundamental and applied research addressing the substitution of CRMs in high value alloys and metal-matrix composites used under extreme conditions in vital productive sectors such as Energy, Aerospace, Automotive, and Machinery manufacturing industry.

2. Establish a multi-disciplinary, collaborative novel network of EU scientists, engineers, and industrialists.

3. Harmonize the industrial needs and research actions, and ensure the impact and valorisation of scientific progress into the selected industrial Value Chains (VC) and beyond.

4. Objectives and Impact - Impact

✔ to promote significant advance of knowledge in fundamental and applied research

✔ to create a good synergy with the KIC on Raw Materials set up by the European Institute of Technology

✔ to enhance the competitiveness of EU industries, identifying viable solutions for CRMs substitution in materials of technological impact

A suitably organized, properly managed Action on CRMs can be expected ...

5. Work Plan - Steps

The most important research tasks to be coordinated by the Action consists of the following interrelated steps

Understanding the role of CRMs in high-tech materials used in extreme conditions, thus ranking the major applications to best direct the Action efforts

Design of a novel microstructure without CRM and design of related processing techniques with thermodynamic and kinetic models

Experimental validation: material production, microstructure evolution characterization, (in-situ) property characterization, weldability/joinability, and durability under extreme conditions

Sustainability impact of the new material: recycling, CO2 , energy, toxicity, closed loop business models

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Dissemination & Communication Leader

Short Term Scientific Missions Leader

Training School Leader

Gender issue Leader

Early Career Investigators ECI Leader

WG2 Leader

Core Group

WGs Coordinator

WG3 Leader

WG4 Leader

WG1 Leader

Management Committee

up to 2 representatives from each participating Country

Action Chair &Action Vice-Chair

5. Work Plan - Activities Management

5. Work Plan - Working Groups

WG 1 Ledears

Uderstanding the role of CRMs Fatima MONTEMOR (PT)Radu Robert PITICESCU (RO)

WG 2 Leaders

Design and Material production Saurav GOEL (UK)Lucyna JAWORSKA (PL)

5. Work Plan - Working Groups

WG2 – FROM TRL3 TO TRL5

5. Work Plan - Working Groups

WG 3 Leaders

Industrial validation Shai ESSEL (IL)Iakovos YAKOUMIS (EL)

WG3 – FROM TRL4 TO TRL8

WG 4 Leaders

Value chain impact Andreas BARTL (AT)Vjaceslavs LAPKOVSKIS (LT)

5. Work Plan - Working Groups

WG 4 Leaders

Value chain impact Andreas BARTL (AT)Vjaceslavs LAPKOVSKIS (LT)

5. Work Plan - Working Groups

Position Name

WGs Coordinator Maria Luisa GRILLI (IT)

to optimise multidisciplinary approaches and ensure interrelation

5. Work Plan - Working Groups

In particular, the overall management of the WGs aims

✔ to guarantee a good interaction between WG4 and the other WGs

✔ to ensure continuous feedbacks and integration with the tasks related to

● the Research and Development work

● the dissemination and exploitation task

● the plan for the involvement of stakeholders

5. Work Plan - Dissemination strategy

Plan to involve the most relevant stakeholdersINTERNAL communication to be swift, continuous, informal, stimulating

conventional electronic tools that ease the remote communication among partners of the Action

EXTERNAL communication

Scientific dissemination, International Conference, international training school, workshops, lectures by leading scientists

Plan to involve the most relevant stakeholders

Dissemination & Communication Leaders

Päivi KIVIKYTÖ-REPONEN (FI)

Santiago CUESTA-LOPEZ (ES)

5. Work Plan - Plan to involve stakeholders

Dissemination & Communication Leaders

Päivi KIVIKYTÖ-REPONEN (FI)

Santiago CUESTA-LOPEZ (ES)

The Action aims to act as a stakeholder platform in the industrial sectors of➔ Energy

➔ Transportation➔ Machinery manufacturing

The target of these contacts are✔ Individual Stakeholders:

● companies● research centers

● technology transfer firms and offices, etc.✔ Stakeholders Communities:

• Industrial Value Chains• Scientific Societies

• European Technology Platforms (ETPs)• European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materilas (EIP RM)

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COST Policies: ● Inclusiveness, ● Gender Balance, ● Early Career Investigators

Position Leaders

Vice Chair +Short Term Scientific Mission

Pavel NOVÁK (CZ)

Early Career Investigator Mirja ILLIKAINEN (FI)

Simon DE CORTE (BE)

Gender Issue Zoran PANDILOV (MK)

Geographical Inclusiveness Dragan RAJNOVIC (RS)

Training School Shmuel OSOVSKI (IL)

Zara CHERKEZOVA-JELEVA (BG)

5. Work Plan - Excellence & Inclusiveness

6. Work Plan

May 2016 – April 2020

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4MC Meeting x x x x x x x xWGs Meeting x x x x x x x xWorkshop x x x x x x xTraining School x xAnnual Conference x x xSTSMs Call x x x x x x x xSTMs Programme x x x x x x x x x x x x x x xReporting x x x x xCoordination x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x xWeb Site update x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

7. Partnership - Countries

•Austria •Belgium •Bulgaria •Czech Republic•Estonia •Finland •France •fYR Macedonia •Germany •Greece •Hungary •Israel

•Italy •Latvia •Luxembourg•Norway •Poland •Portugal •Romania •Serbia •Slovakia •Slovenia •Spain •Sweden •Switzerland•United Kingdom

26 Participants Light green = Inclusiveness Target Country

7. Partnership - Entities

● Academias● Research & Innovation● Business Enterprises

7. Partnership - Join us

The call for Working Groups Members (application form) available on-line soon

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7. Partnership - Join us

or contac us

Maria Letizia Ruello (Chair)Senior Researcher, Material Science and Technology

Dep. Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning- SIMAUUniversità Politecnica delle MarcheAncona Italy

e-mail m.l.ruello@univpm.it

Pavel Novák (Vice-Chair)ProfessorUniversity of Chemistry and Technology,

PragueCzech Republic Paja.Novak@vscht.cz

CRM-EXTREME crm-extreme@univpm.it www.crm-extreme.eu (available soon)http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15102?

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