AMULET
Advanced Materials & manufacturing United for LightwEighT
Partners
- IMAST (IT)
- Technical University of Chemnitz RTO TUC – Project Leader (DE)
- Bydgoszcz Industrial Cluster Cluster BIC (PL)
- The Advanced Materials Cluster of Catalonia Cluster MAV (ES)
- Flanders Make RTO FM (BE)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology RTO NTNU (NO)
- Jožef Stefan Institute RTO JSI (SI)
- Plastipolis Cluster PLAS (FR), ora Polymers
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Pécs-Baranya (on behalf of the South West Hungarian Engineering Cluster) Cluster SWHEC (HU)
- Cluster MECH (IT)
- Moravian-Silesian Automotive Cluster Cluster AKL (CZ)
- FundingBox Accelerator sp.z.o.o. SME FBA (PL)
- Bax Innovation Consulting SL SME BAX (ES)
Duration of the project
- 1.09.2021 – 30.11.2024
Budget
- € 4.994.507,00
The Project is carried out as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Objective:
The AMULET project – Advanced Materials & Manufacturing United for LightwEighT – is funded under INNOSUP-01-2020 “Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains” of Horizon 2020. The international consortium is made up of 13 organizations from 10 countries.
To reach the ambitious goal of a decarbonized and efficient circular economy, lightweight construction was identified to play a key role. Thereby, the application of advanced lightweight materials such as polymer-based composites, ceramic matrix composites and light metal alloys has already enabled significant weight reductions while increasing performance over the past decades.
However, the application potential of advanced lightweight materials that has been achieved scientifically and technically has not yet been fully exploited by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The trans-European project AMULET aims to exploit this innovation potential of SMEs through a cross-regional, cross-sectoral, funded knowledge exchange. This will establish new, pan-European value chains for advanced lightweight materials.
AMULET will focus on the following three advanced materials: Light metal alloys, Ceramic matrix composites, Polymer-based composites and their implementation in four industry sectors: Building, Aerospace & Aeronautics, Energy, Automotive.
In order to consolidate new lightweight industrial value chains in the automotive, aerospace & aeronautics, energy, and building sectors, AMULET will identify current sectoral challenges per type of advanced material. Three types of activities will be implemented to foster innovation in SMEs.
- Thematic challenge competitions
- Technical training support
- Business to business Coaching