Sustainability as innovation driver for a zero-pollution and climate-neutral future

The twin green and digital transition, strived for by the European Green Deal, is considered essential for achieving Europe’s objective of becoming the first climate-neutral continent paired with empowering a sustainable, circular, competitive and resilient economy. Major innovation markets like new energy, construction, agriculture and transportation are in high need of advanced materials, which provide the required new functionalities with improved safety and sustainability profiles, to address the challenges of this transition. Development of such materials in the time frame anticipated in the Green Deal and according to the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Framework, developed by the EU Joint Research Centre, has to be supported by digital approaches, computational modeling and artificial intelligence. Additionally, it needs to cover the complete material life cycle from raw material extraction to end-of-life and recycling as well as the full value chain or network of value chains.

This session will present industry frameworks for the development of advanced materials, concepts and solutions to provide cost effective tools, their implementation in materials design case studies and how this will boost the innovation capacity of SMEs and industry.