Funding opportunity for the innovation of the European lightweighting SMEs

Manufacturing is nowadays striving for a wiser change into a more sustainable future for post-pandemic world. As environmental concerns become increasingly important to consumers, many market sectors are shifting toward greater energy consciousness and sustainability.

The Advanced Materials & Manufacturing United for LightwEighT (AMULET) project aims to benefit from the innovation potential of SMEs that will be creating new value chains by fostering the penetration of advanced lightweight materials in industry. AMULET will focus on the following three advanced materials: light metal alloys, ceramic matrix composites, polymer-based composites and their implementation in four sectors:

Open Calls

The AMULET will launch 2 Open Calls to enhance this innovation potential of SMEs through a cross sectors and funded knowledge exchange.

1st Open Call was launched on 12th April 2022!
 

With this 1^st call, AMULET will select up to 36 projects invited to a Jury Day, from which up to 26 will pass to the AMULET programme support services, and out of them, up to 7 will complete the full programme, following a funnel approach:

-           up to 26 consortia (2-3 SMEs) to submit a feasibility study: 23,000 €

-           up to 7 consortia (2-3 SMEs) to demonstrate their solutions: 80,000 €

-           up to 7 consortia (2-3 SMEs) to get follow-up support services: 17,000 €

For more information, please check AMULET’s website.

AMULET will publish a second call, similar to this one, in November 2022 (date to be confirmed).

Matchmaking events to build innovative SMEs consortia

The Amulet consortium will organize 3 important networking opportunities for SMEs interested in participating in the first Open Call. SMEs will be able to participate in three matchmaking events and use the platform to meet other companies to work together on their project.

Apply until 30th June 2022 at 17:00 (CEST) on the application website.
 

Partnership

The AMULET consortium consists of 7 clusters: POLYMERIS (FR) which is the project’s coordinator, Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster (PL), Advanced Materials Cluster of Catalonia (ES), IMAST (IT), West Hungarian Engineering Cluster (HU), Clust-ER MECH (IT), Moravian-Silesian Automobile Cluster (CZ), 4 RTOs: Chemnitz University of Technology, Jožef Stefan Institute (SI), Flanders Make (BE), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and 2 SMEs: FundingBox (PL) and Bax&Company (ES).

For more information, contact:

Project Coordinator: Annabelle Sion (POLYMERIS)

• Email: annabelle.sion [at] polymeris.fr (annabelle[dot]sion[at]polymeris[dot]fr)
• Phone:  +33 (0)6 33 70 06 74

Communication & dissemination: Agnieszka Dąbrowska (Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster)

• Email: a.dabrowska [at] klaster.bydgoszcz.pl (a[dot]dabrowska[at]klaster[dot]bydgoszcz[dot]pl)
• Phone: +48 883 860 469