Project duration: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2018
Objective
Supporting innovation by offering easy access to world-class research infrastructure and research related services for the development of metal-based lightweight materials and applications, including technologies using high-strength steels, aluminium, titanium and magnesium alloys as well as hybrid compounds.
The solution (technology)
Establishing an internet platform for services, partners, and stakeholders, determination of the research and service infrastructure of MetLight, the definition of specialized and standardized services, development of the business plan (CANVAS), the creation of standardized contracts for customers and realization of marketing activities.
Partnership
- Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), (Lead Partner) Germany
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Spain
- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), Italy
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, Hungary
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (German Aerospace Center – DLR), Germany
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR), Germany
- Instytut Metali Niezelaznych, IMN (Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals), Poland
- Lund University, Sweden
- Mondragon Corporation S. Coop., Spain
- Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania
- Politechnika Slaska (Silesian University of Technology), Poland
- Politechnika Wroclawska (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, WUST), Poland
- Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology), The Netherlands
- Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padova), Italy
- University of Limerick, Ireland
- Wroclawskie Centrum Badan EIT plus Sp. z o.o. (EIT+), Poland
- Zanardi Fonderie S.p.A, Italy