Companies looking for partners in the field of circulair economy applications, Januari 2017

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Find some of the latest profiles on Enterprise Europe Network for partner search, new business at your doorstep published December, 2016.

Within the Enterprise Europe network other specialized fields are available for partner search such as automotive, smart electricity, sustainable construction. Make your own query for partner searches based on your interest at this database and find new business at your doorstep. Enterprise Europe Network, with its 600 partner organizations in over 70 countries, helps companies find business opportunities across the European Union and beyond.

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• Easy access to new technologies
• Less risk in developing new products or technologies
• Improve speed of development, time to market
• Shared co development on your expertise combined with other expertise's external
• Finding relevant new contacts using the network and get introduced to it
• Get a warm introduction on the right level using personal contacts from the Enterprise Europe Network consultants

For a full description of the proposals below, please click on the title. You will be directed to our website. Here you indicate your interest at the bottom of the full description.

Cluster organisations and technology centres sought to join COSME project (COS-CLUSTER-2014-3-03) European Strategic...   
POD Reference:RDES20160616001
A Spanish cluster organisation is active partner of an European Strategic Cluster Partnership, already funded by COSME programme under COS-CLUSTER-2014-3-03 call, with the purpose of supporting internationalization and global competitiveness of European SMEs. The cluster is looking for other cluster organizations and technology centres working in circular economy and, in particular, with the construction sector to enlarge the partnership and become part of the working groups.

H2020: CIRC-01-2016-2017: Looking for industrial and public partners from the built environment interested in... 
POD Reference: RDDE20161214001
A German-based international non-profit organisation, specialized in circular economy and sustainable business models is planning to submit a H2020 project in “Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects” (CIRC-01-2016-2017) in the field of building and construction. Partners sought for this research co-operation are commercial or public building operators.

H2020: looking for partners from and related to the retail sector, incl IT, logistics, user behaviour, also associations...
POD Reference: RDFR20161208001
A large French company in the postal services sector is actively looking for partners for CIRC-01-2016-2017. They aim to set up a virtuous and sustainable ecosystem dedicated to the circular economy including manufacturers, retailers and logistics to orchestrate the rental of occasionally used objects. Partners, who would touch upon the aforementioned areas, incl from the IT and digital ID, design, user behaviour etc sector, are sought.

SC5-14-2016-2017: A Slovenian research institute is searching for industrial partners and partners from the construction...
POD Reference: RDSI20161003001
Research organisation active in the construction sector, from Slovenia, is seeking to form a consortia, in the role of coordinator, with partners from industry and the construction sector to establish a project proposal for Horizon 2020 SC5-2016-2017 to demonstrate innovative pilot actions.

H2020: German consortium seeks industrial partners, especially SMEs, active in the field of production, processing and...
POD Reference:  RDDE20161109001
A German university chair of management accounting is setting up a consortium for the call CIRC-01-2016-2017. The aim of the project is to develop new processes in order to use old buildings as a resource pool for materials. The consortium is looking for industrial partners, especially SMEs, who are experts in the production, processing and recycling of composite materials (e. g. fibre reinforced plastic).

H2020: Symbiotic use of water. Demo site / End user needed
POD Reference: RDIT20161114001
An Italian SME connected to a network of research and industry partners each offering advanced water treatment technologies suited to treat industrial/domestic water, is preparing a H2020 CIRC-2-2016-2017 project aimed at developing a system for symbiotic use of water and use of sources of water different from mains,starting from existing technologies (TRL6).The SME is looking for a test ground/pilot site, ideally industrial or commercial complex, or a small district.

EUREKA/Eurostars: A spanish company is looking for a partner specialized in Precision Agriculture
POD Reference: RDES20161202002
A Spanish SME focused on ICT development, is seeking for partners with relevant expertise in Precision Agriculture, Unmanned Aerial or Ground Systems (UFS/UFV or UGS/UGV) and/or agriculture sensors to collaborate in a Eureka/ Eurostar's. The project objective is to build a digital and social meta-cooperative, an innovative ICT platform to provide extended value-added services to existing cooperatives and olive oil farmers.

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Call for Papers: Conference on Advanced Building Skins - Bern Switserland

Call for Papers: 10^th Conference on Advanced Building 
Skins 03-04 November 2015, Bern, Switzerland

We are very pleased to invite you to the 10th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, to be held at the Congress Center of BernExpo in Bern, Switzerland, on 03-04 November 2015.  The aim of the Conference is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach by architects, engineers, scientists and manufacturers to reduce energy consumption of buildings. This annual international conference attracts 400 participants from over fifty countries.

We are inviting you to present a paper on a topic falling within the scope of the conference, and to submit a proposal by 20 March, 2015. Below are the topics which will be covered in next year’s conference:

Policies, Finance, Business Models:

- Policies to overcome market barriers / Challenges to policy implementation

- Incentives: moving beyond niche markets / Market strategies for sustainable buildings
- Commercialization: How to get sustainable building products into the market

- Mandatory policies and community empowerment

- Efficiency improvement programs for existing buildings

- Financing and new business models of building refurbishment

- Economic evaluation of building retrofits / Cost optimization of façade renovation

- Building ownership and energy consumption

- Urban development strategies for EcoCities / Applying sustainable urban-scale strategies at building level
 
Innovative Products and Technologies for the Building Skin:

- New materials for the building skin

- Smart materials for intelligent building envelopes

- Architectural membranes for high-performance building skins

- Thermal performance of Phase Change Materials for the building skin

- Eco materials for the building skin

- Integrating solar technologies into the building envelope

- Solar reflective technologies and shading systems for enhanced daylight control

- Solar Decathlon projects and technologies

Advanced Building Skin Design:
- Design methods for sustainable, high-performance building façades

- The future of advanced building skin design

- Sustainable design with building information modeling

- Intelligent sensing, control and optimization

- Responsive and adaptive building skins 

- Building skins for tropical climates

- High-tech lightweight building envelopes
- Kinetic architecture
- Green walls

- Biomicry

- Digital fabrication

Performance of the Building Envelope:
- Models, tools and simulations for sustainable buildings

- Tools and models to optimize daylight performance
- Building design optimization / Building energy performance simulation

- Optimal insulation levels of roofs and façades

- Systems performance and benefits of new construction materials

- Cost engineering and life cycle cost analysis

- Building commissioning

- Building certification: LEED, Passivhaus, Minergie and other certification systems

- Natural ventilation and thermal behavior of the building envelope

How to apply:

Proposals should be sharply focused; please avoid any introduction to the topic or a description of your organization. Each proposal should clearly identify its subject and its particular approach to it; the premise, scope, and ambitions underlying the paper should be clear to the reader. We will accept proposals that are either research or practice orientated. Please send your proposal in English or German language and include the following information:

- Paper title plus titles of 3 sub-chapters (see the 2014 program for samples of sub-chapters)

- Author’s and co-author’s names, job titles and organization; please underline the name of the speaker

- Phone number, email address and postal address

- Synopsis of 300 words (abstract) with 6 key words

- Brief Curriculum Vitae or résumé on page two of your proposal

Click here to download our template that you can use for your proposal.

Please include your contact information and the topic of your paper in your proposal AND your email. Proposals can be submitted in either English or German and should be sent in PDF format to proposals@energy-forum.com by 20 March 2015. The Scientific Conference Committee will review your proposal, and submitters will be notified by 10 April regarding the status of their submission.

Registration Fee:

Speakers and poster presenters are required to register for the conference by 30 April and qualify for the reduced conference fee of 380 EUR (regular fee is 580 EUR). The registration fee includes lunches, coffee breaks, and the publication of full manuscripts and posters in the conference documentation. Full papers received by 15 June 2015 will be included in the conference documentation. In addition, selected papers will be published in the Journal of Advances in Building Energy Research, a scientific Journal published by Taylor & Francis, Oxford and New York. All papers will be cited in the Scopus index.

Important Dates: 

Deadline for paper proposals: 20 March 2015

Registration deadline for speakers: 30 April 2015
Submission deadline for full manuscripts: 15 June 2015
First announcement of the conference program: 15 June 2015
Second announcement of the conference program: 15 September 2015
Deadline for PowerPoint presentations: 10 October 2015

Conference on Advanced Building Skins: 03-04 November 2015
 
For information about the conference please visit our website, where you can also order last year's conference documentation.

Information about hotels in Bern, the conference venue and information on travel will be added shortly.

Please disseminate this announcement to any colleagues who may be interested in participating at this conference. Thank you!

Looking forward to receiving your proposal.

Best regards

Andreas Karweger

President of the Scientific Committee
Advanced Building Skins Conference

General Manager, EF Economic Forum

Landsberger Str. 155 - D-80687 Munich, Germany

T +49 89 20000-4161  -  info@economic-forum.eu

via Simml 8 - I-39050 San Genesio (Bolzano), Italy

T +39 0471 34 00 50 - info@energy-forum.com

Search for project partners in Horizon 2020 projects on sustainable, shipbuilding, lightweight, composit, environment

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Partner search in H2020 Energy projects 04 Feb 2015,

A Polish private Innovation Centre is a company as well as business support organization (BSO), which came into being in November 2009. It deals with the implementation of innovations and new technologies in various areas of functioning of enterprises, self-governments and institutions with special emphasis on eco-innovations and technologies connected with renewable sources of energy. This centre is offering itself as a partner in H2020 Energy projects.
This Centre mediates among science, business and administration and provides comprehensive services for the implementation of innovations and new technologies in various areas of the business, governments and institutions. Special emphasis is placed on eco-innovation and renewable energy sources (RES).
The company is located in office building which is equipped with a wide range of technologies and special equipment that allow the company to accumulate energy from the sun and wind:
thermal energy: heat pump and solar collectors, ventilation with recuperation
electricity: photovoltaic panels, wind turbine with a vertical axis of rotation.
The company is open and willing for cooperation in topics of: energy efficiency, renewable sources energy (RES) and innovations (in particular eco-innovations). The company is also interested in topics which support entrepreneurship and regional development.The company is looking for a leader of consortium or cooperation partners for H2020 projects in the topic of Renevable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency.

Portuguese shipyard company is looking for existing R&D project proposal consortium, 9 Feb 2015
A Portuguese shipyard SME and the main activities are shipbuilding and ship repair both in Steel and GRP. Recently they became part of an entrepreneurial group with activities and experience in offshore activities, pipelines and oil platforms.
The companies characteristics, as industrial end-users that they are, they can have a very versatile collaboration in various areas beyond their core business.
The company is available and interested to participate actively in R & D projects, with special emphasis on the development and application of new materials including composites where the company can add some added value acquired in our experience in this area.
This Portuguese company is better equipped shipyard for the naval intervention in the range of small and medium boats, both in Steel and GRP.
They has a strong interest in modernization and on the use of eco and innovative production technologies, materials and methods.
Incorporating technology & innovation into shipbuilding activities, enabled them to consolidated technical knowledge over a period of time and diversified the product offering. The company has participated in several 7FP projects has industrial end-user

Seeking industrial partners for H2020-NMP-22(stage1,)19 Jan 2015
a German university located in Weimar is seeking industrial partners to develop innovative lightweight components based on fibre-reinforced materials for automotive, aerospace, energy applications . The faculty is active in materials research and seeks industrial partners for an innovation project (IA) under H2020- NMP-22-2015, deadline 26/03/2015, stage 1.
Main concept: to develop and produce novel generation of lightweight components based on fibre-reinforced materials for automotive, space, energy applications. Potential partners sought should deal with

• fibre production/fiber supplier
• metal film / sheets
• joining - soldering
• joining - bonding
• joining - ultrasound
• packaging
• post-Treatment

H2020 Energy-efficient Buildings calls, partners sought, 23 Dec 2014,

Partners for H2020 calls: Energy-efficient Buildings and Energy Efficient – PPP EeB and SPIRE topic.
An Italian client is looking for partners (SMEs, large companies, PAs)  interested in participating in the following H2020 Innovation Actions:

• H2020 - Industrial Leadership – Energy Efficient Building 2014-2015, Call Name : Call for Energy-efficient Buildings.  Topic: Integrated approach to retrofitting of residential buildingshttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participan ... -2015.html 
• H2020 - Industrial Leadership – Energy Efficient – PPP EeB and SPIRE topics,Call Name :  Energy Efficient – PPP EeB and SPIRE topic.Topic: Building design for new highly performing buildings http://ec.europa.eu/research/participan ... -2015.html

University of Salford in Greater Manchester (UK): Partnersearch for project usable low carbon commercial buildings in cities (UL4C)

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Low carbon buildings are starting to become more normalised for cities, with many of the demonstrator projects having been in place for some years. However, there is an identified performance gap between what is designed and what is built, with significant issues around building usability and operation, with highly technical low carbon buildings often being “fragile” and complex to manage.

UL4C is designed to capture and apply and evaluate interventions in the low carbon building delivery and in use process to ensure that buildings carbon emissions reductions are maximised through technical and process solutions that focus on the building owners, managers and occupiers.

Northwest Europe (NWE) INTERREG VB: Priority 2 – LOW CARBON in Non-Domestic Buildings

The following proposal outlines a potential NWE project led by the University of Salford in partnership with Greater Manchester (GM). Its focus is PRIORITY 2 – Low Carbon, addressing Thematic Objective 2: To reduce GHG emissions in NWE through international co-operation of low carbon, energy or climate protection strategies. The focus is addressing Low Carbon in Non-Domestic Buildings, including both the public and commercial stock within the city.

This builds on existing good practice, including a knowledge of the results of other previous INTERREG projects, including the CAPEM project, which focused on new energy efficiency products, REGAIN, looking at estate management, and Living Green, which focused on delivery and in use issues around low carbon domestic properties. These priorities also link with a number of low carbon projects under the Energy Efficient Buildings Programmes under both FP7 and Horizon 2020. The GM team are keen to capture learning form previous EU and national work within the bid.

Partners:
Salford University (lead), Greater Manchester Combined Authority Partners should be public authorities (cities or regions) and research institutions from the Northwest Europe Area.
Proposed partners should have the following;

• The city should have a low carbon strategy that refers to buildings
• A research/ technical partner linked to the city
• An identified technology or solution for usable low carbon buildings that they are prepared to champion and implement

Duration in months: 36

Background:
Greater Manchester (GM) Environment Team is currently developing a work programme to support the retrofit of all non-domestic and public buildings in GM (including mixed use and heritage sites). This program will aim to deliver the deepest possible energy efficiency savings to enable GM and other European partner cities to achieve their challenging carbon reduction targets.
This work has identified a number of city specific challenges, which appear to be applicable to different extents in NWE urban environments;

• Lack of detailed performance and benchmarking data on current performance, particularly in the commercial sector to help establish baselines.
• Performance Gap between as designed and in use for low carbon buildings
• Issues of usability and complexity around energy management and low carbon in buildings
• Lack of accessible demonstrators with evidence to support the business case and make risk of implementation more transparent for the market.
• Barriers to adoption including issues such as client awareness, supply chain readiness, split incentives and a well developed innovation context, such as links to research base.

Specific work in the domestic sector has seen a growth in adoption of low carbon retrofit. The project intends to build on previous actions in various NWE partner cities around sustainable retrofit and low carbon buildings.

Main Aim of the Project:
Main Aim is to increase the uptake and impact of innovative low carbon technologies (heating, lighting, storage, control and optimisation) across all non-domestic building archetypes in a number of European cities using a building user focus.

Next Steps:
The first NWE Interreg VB call for projects is likely to be announced in April 2015 with a deadline in May 2015.

Further information and contact persons:
Partners interested in this project are asked to contact Rodolphe Soulard by 4^th February 2015. A Partners event is to be organised in early 2015. Please contact us for more information.