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The aim of Clean Futures (CF) is to develop the West Midland's innovation ecosystem and drive economic growth by developing a two-year programme that will engage with industry and address the route to market challenge faced by SMEs in the transport sector. CF will support the transition of manufacturing capability and associated supply chains from fossil-fuelled transport products to clean-tech transport. The programme will focus on 40 SMEs who may be in existing supply chains or may be looking to move into new market sectors. Our aim is to support the selected SMEs to transition, develop and demonstrate clean tech transport solutions to Tier 1 and OEMs. CF is a collaborative project bringing together Connected Places Catapult, the Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation, Coventry University and CU Services Limited, as well as a number of partners from the wider ecosystem who can support the development of a cluster of exciting innovating SMEs and a strong community of interest including industry, government and investors. By bringing together this West Midlands innovation community, CF will drive jobs and growth through bringing innovation investors, buyers and suppliers together to tackle the challenges of clean transport. CF will work with industry partners to scope challenges, defining areas in which accelerating product development will make a difference to the industry. We will run competitions to attract companies with existing mid-development projects and select from them two dual cohorts in each year. Ten SMEs will work with each institution each year, providing focussed support for 40 SMEs in total. They will receive technological and development help for their products and benefit from business support teams to ensure they fully understand the markets for the products and are ready for investment to commercialise at the end of their assistance. Each cohort will close with a demonstration day, showcasing the technology and connecting with industry and financial partners. CF will provide a foundation for sustainability through the CF Academy, bringing together the wider West Midlands innovation community, to support longer-term sustainability and benefits. CF will drive impacts in the local economy by creating jobs, supporting the route to market for new products and services and encouraging local and inward investment in innovations that will transform clean transport in the region.

INNO-MOB will focus on the opportunities that initiatives & networks offer to innovative and dynamic businesses through an inclusive mobility innovation European ecosystem business support framework. The emerging sustainable mobility market will be used as the vehicle to examine the opportunities provided and develop mechanisms to support the deployment potential of companies in bringing innovations to the market quickly. The project will use the services offered by the seven partner institutions but also through an enlarged network of initiatives and clusters run in the respective countries. The specific objectives include: To define the needs of the innovation’s stakeholders in the mobility sector, to support the mobility networks & initiatives apply an ‘opening up’ strategy, to create interconnected innovation networks on mobility and to implement joint awareness raising and communication campaigns to reach out to more stakeholders in different territories. INNO-MOB will deliver a Mobility Innovation Network ( MIN) platform that will incorporate a Stakeholder Chain Map Intelligent Platform function that will provide a holistic picture of the networks, initiatives and their offer. A search engine, offer-demand /marketplace space and communication exchange forum will be incorporated too. The initiatives and networks will be able to offer their services through the platform with the aim to create more inclusive and diverse mobility ecosystems.

New lightweight High-Performance Composite (HPC) materials and efficient sustainable processing technologies will have an enormous environmental and performance benefit in all sectors of application. However, current sustainable HPC application is limited to large sectors due to their limitations in terms of long processing times, high prices and low recyclability. To overcome these limitations, rLightBioCom propose a paradigm shift in the way HPC are manufactured and recycled, unlocking sustainable-by-design production of lightweight HPC. Therefore, the project will enable new circular value chains towards r-LightBioCom results, contributing to environmental-related EU goals and reducing the HPC waste generation and the use of non-sustainable fossil resources. To this end, a sustainable catalogue of new advanced biobased and recycled HPC materials will be initially developed with inherent recyclability properties (at least 3 new types of bio-resins, 4 new biomass-derived nanofillers and additives, and 3 families of sustainable fibre-based textile products). To reduce current associated manufacturing costs and high energy consumptions and emissions, efficient processing techniques will be developed (2 new fast curing techniques) combined with recycling technologies for the new catalogue of materials to reduce waste generation and induce circularity. A new open method and related tools (Coupled Ecological Optimisation framework) will promote and standardise holistic sustainable HPC design, modelling and systematic optimisation, leading to continuous sustainable catalogue growth and inclusion of new families of biobased, recyclable lightweight HPC at competitive cost. All results will be validated in 3 use cases at automotive, infrastructure and aeronautic industries with specific business cases, contributing to establishing new resilient, sustainable and innovative value chains in the EU HPC industry, promoting a change of paradigm from linear to circular ones.

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