This year we have started work on 12 new national recruitment projects.
One of these projects has received support from the support programme for Innovation Clusters (ICs) under line 3, digital technology projects.
• TeraMAT2: Development of an open certification platform to ensure the traceability of recycled plastic materials through Blockchain and inspection in the terahertz range.
Funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
Eight projects have received aid from the ELKARTEK 2024 grant programme for collaborative research in strategic areas.
• MOSINCO: Non-contact monitoring of composite materials from manufacture to end of life. Coordinated by GAIKER
• BG24: Exploration and characterisation of molecular factors in cancer and their innovative applications in precision cancer treatments.
• BMG24: Collaborative research on biomarkers and alternative methods of diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of fibrosis-related pulmonary hypertension.
• EnHarPE: New energy harvesting systems for self-powered low-power devices using printed solutions and sustainable materials.
• 3DGREEN: Sustainable functional materials from recycled sources for 3D printing for the electronics sector
• ADDICOMP: Mass Production Digital Composites. Additive manufacturing technologies for highly structural composites.
• TERCOMAT: Research on the hybridisation of plastics with steel.
• CirIAMet: Intelligent technologies to drive the circularity of metals in new generations from vehicles no longer in use
Funded by the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of the Basque Government
One of the projects has received support from the 2024 Technology Transfer programme
• COMPLESOLV: Implementation of the circular economy for complex plastic materials through the development and application of solvolysis and dissolution processes.
Funded by Bizkaia Provincial Council as part of the 2024 Technology Transfer Programme.
Another of the projects has received support from the 2024 Innovation Ecosystem Support Programme
• CÍCLiCOM: Innovation ecosystem for the circularity of composite materials and complex plastics. Coordinated by GAIKER
The latter has received support from the TransMissions 2024 Programme
• CICLO: Cooperation and research on circularity in the wind industry. Coordinated by GAIKER.
Subsidised by the CDTI
Meanwhile, as far as international recruitment projects are concerned: In 2024 we received support from the European Union under the HORIZON EUROPE programme to implement 4 new recruitment projects, of which we are leading two:
• BIOSAFIRE: Development and manufacture of new, more sustainable and safer materials using biobased functionalised additives based on lingin and tannins to improve fire resistance. Coordinated by GAIKER
• E-OILE: Sustainable End-of-life routes for Single-use monodose packaging for oily products. Coordinado por GAIKER
• DESIDERATA: Integrated Pathways: Advancing Safe and Sustainable by Design Material Innovation through Collaborative Wisdom
• PAIRAMID: AI-based testing pyramid towards virtual certification of next-gen composite aerostructures
Funded by the European Union
Finally, we have received aid to acquire research infrastructures and equipment from AZPITEK (Acquisition of Research Infrastructures Aid Programme) and the Technology Transfer 2024 programme (Line 2. Grants for providing research infrastructures and for testing and experimentation)
Azpitek 2024 Programme:
• DATPOL: Multimodal characterisation platform for generating data and digitalising materials and polymer transformation processes
• TERATEK: Terahertz spectroscopy to investigate technologies related to the smart identification and advanced characterisation of waste and plastic materials and to activate the circular economy in recycling and processing
Funded by the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of the Basque Government
Technology Transfer Programme 2024
• Infrastructure for characterising and evaluating the bio-reactivity of new nano and microparticulate materials on human physiological barriers
• COMPLESOLV: Implementation of the circular economy for complex plastic materials by developing and applying solvolysis and dissolution processes
Funded by Bizkaia Provincial Council as part of the Technology Transfer 2024 Programme
