Funding
Identification Smart Paper - IDS-PAPER
IDS-Paper aims to establish an integrated and innovative self-sustained green electronic system paper-based for wireless communication applications that addresses the ubiquitous security and low cost green electronic sectors and their translation towards products that capture the needs associated with the Internet of Things and cyber security matters, fully aligned with the expected transition towards the green deal prosperity mission of the future.
Coordinator - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA)
PI – Prof. Rodrigo Martins (NOVA)
Co-PI – Luís Pereira (AlmaScience)
Partner Organizations
• AlmaScience
• Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias
(UNINOVA / FCTUNL / NOVA)
Reference
PTDC/CTM-PAM/4241/2020
Start Date
01/03/2021
End Date
29/02/2024
Funding Authority
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Total Budget
250 000€
AlmaScience Budget
45 000€
AlmaScience team involved
Luís Pereira, Carlos Silva, Diana Gaspar, Cristina Gaspar, João Avelãs Resende, Mariana Matias, Marta Lopes, Sumita Goswami
Emerging Printed Electronics Research Infrastructure (EMERGE)
The aim of EMERGE is to establish the first integrated, distributed research infrastructure supporting comprehensive user projects for multi-and-trans-disciplinary research on sustainable flexible large-area printed electronics and photonics (FLAPEP) value chain, going from materials formulation to design and architecture of
processes, devices and systems, backup by characterization, test modelling and simulation tools, through a coordinated open-access for RTOs, industry and SMEs to complementary facilities.
This is a route for creating added value and road mapping the introduction of new, recyclable electronics products at “Half-the-time/ Half-the-cost” to establish a sustainable prosperity, as required by today’s science and technology challenges and ESFRI landscape analysis.
The overall objective of EMERGE is to provide access for users working with materials such as paper, textiles or biocompatible polymers to small-footprint FLAPEP technologies which enables emerging devices by using industrially compatible hybrid printing processes (roll-to-roll (R2R), functional 3D printing, etc.) accompanied with in-line inspection tools and automatic systems for high throughput inks determination, both driven by a novel Knowledge repository powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods.
At least 1400 users will be involved in the project through cross-border experiments, while creating at least 4 Symbiotic Clusters transregional connected, 4 Innovation gateway Hubs focusing on technology brokerage and 1 transversal hub valuing the results of the prototypes within a market approach.
EMERGE will focus intensively
on networking among partners and stakeholders through advocacy and dissemination, sharing data and information management and exploitation to ensure a long lasting, sustainable community in line with the Green Deal initiative for environmentally friendly approaches towards circular economy.
Coordinator - UNINOVA - INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS - ASSOCIACAO (UNINOVA)
PI – Prof. Rodrigo Martins (UNINOVA)
Partner Organizations
• AlmaScience (Portugal)
• Elliniko Mesogeiako Panepistimio (Greece)
• Politechnika Warszawska (Poland)
• Forschungszentrum Julich GMBH (Germany)
• Fundacio Institut Catala de Nanociencia I Nanotecnologia (Spain)
• Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH (Austria)
• Materials Center Leoben Forschung GMBH (Austria)
• Technische Universitaet Dresden (Germany)
• Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (Greece)
• Rise Research Institutes of Sweden AB (Sweden)
Grant Agreement
101008701
Start Date
01/07/2021
End Date
30/06/2025
Funding Authority
European Comission
Total Budget
6 177 816€
AlmaScience Budget
324 975€
AlmaScience team involved
Luís Pereira, Carlos Silva, Diana Gaspar, Cristina Gaspar, Tatiana Lima Costa, Marta Lopes, Bruno Veigas
Dynamic CELLulosE structures with aCTIVE colour changing for photonic and security applications (CELLECTIVE)
CELLECTIVE aims to demonstrate a radically new concept for CNCs-based structures with exceptional optical properties. CELLECTIVE merges different fields that go from chemical modification, materials selections and tailoring, deposition techniques, optical tunning with laser engraving, simulation and design of materials, and hydrogels for photonic and electronic applications. Moreover, CELLECTIVE will focus on dynamic natural structures with fast actuation responses, that are highly susceptible to temperature and moisture variation, turning those materials very attractive as sensing layers.
Coordinator - AlmaScience
PI – Diana Gaspar
Co-PI – Cristina Gaspar
Partner Organizations
• Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias (UNINOVA)
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA)
Reference
PTDC/CTM-CTM/4653/2021
Start Date
01/01/2022
End Date
31/12/2024
Funding Authority
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Total Budget
228 993€
AlmaScience Budget
125 860€
AlmaScience team involved
Diana Gaspar, Cristina Gaspar, Luís Pereira, Andreia Santos, Bruno Veigas, Catarina Fernandes, Fausto Queda, Mariana Matias, Sónia Alves, Sumita Goswami, Tomás Freire, Tatiana Lima Costa
BRIGHT
Mechanical energy harvesting concepts assume a great relevance as a game changing contribute for “green energy”. The surface electrification concept has gained momentum with the possibility of extending it to large areas, concerning with the eco-design strategies. BRIGHT proposes a new conception of designed cellulose-based bio-foams functionalized by conjugated polymers and bio compatible elastomers. The resulting unique mechanical response will be grounded on unique macro to microscale simulation and design strategies, while the proposed circuitry design allows for improved efficiency and integrated sensing functionalities with energy harvester for sustainable large area self-powered systems. Outputs of BRIGHT will impact wearables sectors such as transportation. The general outcomes are fully aligned the future challenges concerning sustainability, namely in diversifying energy sources, raw materials rational utilization, carbon neutrality and eco-design of products and systems.
Coordinator - FCT-NOVA
PI – Dr. Suman Nandy
Co-PI – Dr. Luis Pereira
Partner Organizations
• AlmaScience;
• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (IKTS)
Reference
M-ERA-NET3/0005/2021
Start Date
01/07/2022
End Date
30/06/2025
Funding Authority
mERANET | Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Total Budget
713 858€
AlmaScience Budget
99 000€
AlmaScience team involved
Luis Pereira, Bruno Ravanello, Diana Gaspar, Mónica Simões, Sumita Goswami, Tatiana Lima Costa
REFORM - PRINTED ELECTRONICS FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
REFORM (pRinted Electronics FOR the circular econoMy) sets out to address the environmental and sustainability challenges around conventional surface mounted and embedded functional electronics.
The project aims to accelerate and guide the development of a new European green functional electronics supply chain. It seeks to use ecodesign principles to ensure that functional electronics can be produced that meet multiple application requirements for technological performance and compliance, while also meeting societal and environmental needs for sustainability. To achieve this, REFORM will develop environmentally benign electronic ‘building blocks’ focusing on green, bio-derived adhesives, conductive inks and flexible substrates. These will be integrated into industry-led functional electronics systems and supported by innovations in conformance testing and material recovery methods. Taking a holistic approach to development across the supply chain positions, this project is unique in not only achieving a step-change in technology compatible with industrial reality, but also producing prototype showcase systems with direct future impact on sustainability.
REFORM brings together a world-leading consortium of academics, non-profit RTOs, industrial associations, private SME partners and large firms from eight countries across Europe.
The project is female-led and coordinated by CIDETEC, a specialist RTO in surface engineering and energy storage based in Spain with a strong track record of leading large collaborative European projects. By combining the consortium’s unique and complementary expertise, REFORM aims to give Europe an innovation lead in green functional electronics, enhancing European competitiveness, and helping meet the ambitions for the European Green Deal.
The immediate outcome of REFORM will be three demonstrators: a green smart logistics tag, a green embedded wireless sensor and a microsupercapacitor, taking the project from TRL 2/3 to TRL 5.
Coordinator - FUNDACION CIDETEC
Partner Organizations
• AlmaScience;
• Kunglica Tekniska Hoegskolan (Sweden)
• CISC Semiconductor GMBH (Austria)
• AIMPLAS - Asociacion de Investigacion de Materiales Plasticos Y Conexas (Spain)
• Crowdhelix Limited (Ireland)
• Talkin Things SP ZOO (POLAND)
• NOVA ID FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (Portugal)
Reference
GA 101070255
Start Date
01/01/2023
End Date
30/06/2026
Funding Authority
European Commission | Horizon Europe
Total Budget
3,588,155.75 €
AlmaScience Budget
84,917.50€
AlmaScience team involved
Diana Gaspar, Mónica Simões, Tatiana Lima Costa
Multi-sensing SMART battery Electrodes concept for in-situ operation monitoring (SmartE)
Coordinator - UNINOVA
Partner Organizations
• UM;
• AlmaScience
Reference
2022.04012.PTDC
Start Date
01/01/2023
End Date
31/12/2025
Funding Authority
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Total Budget
249 624,00€
AlmaScience Budget
56 275,00€
AlmaScience team involved
Diana Gaspar, Felisberto Pereira, Sumbhan Das, Tatiana Lima Costa
Deposition of Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks on Cellulose-based Substrates for Advanced Sustainable Composites (MOCAS)
Cellulose-based composites are a low-cost, lightweight and biodegradable family of materials,that in the future may be essential for sustainable technologies, such as smart packaging and water filtering systems. In this project, we plan to deposit Metal-Oxides and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) coatings on cellulose-based substrates using an Atmospheric Pressure Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (AP-SALD) system.
The development of composites that combine oxides and cellulose fibers will create protective coatings in a nanostructured cellulose paper to enhance the barrier properties for water and gases transport.
Furthermore, we plan to growth MOFs on cellulose membranes to enhance the filter properties for water purification, to remove pollutants as heavy metals.
The use of the AP-SALD will guarantee a low-temperature, atmospheric pressure, and high throughput deposition process, important aspects for the future industrial implementation of these advanced sustainable composites.
Coordinator - CNRS (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LABORATOIRE DES MATERIAUX ET DU GENIE PHYSIQUE)
PI – Dr. David Munoz-Rosas (LMGP-CNRS)
PI @AlmaScience – Dr. João Resende
Partners Organizations - CNRS (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LABORATOIRE DES MATERIAUX ET DU GENIE PHYSIQUE)
PI – Dr. David Munoz-Rosas (LMGP-CNRS)
PI @AlmaScience – Dr. João Resende
Start Date
01/03/2021
End Date
29/02/2023
Funding Authority
CNRS/FCT
Total Budget
22 400€
AlmaScience team involved
João Resende, Tomás Freire, Mariana Matias, Marta Lopes
EMBALAGEM DO FUTURO
The Mobilizing Agenda Embalagem do Futuro, aims to be a response to the main priorities of the European Green Deal.
The goal is to present a more ecological, more digital and more inclusive package. A consortium that includes 84 co-promoters of which 16 are entities and 68 companies. Mostly centered in the Leiria region, the consortium is present from north to south of the country and represents a total investment of €105M.
VANGEST - Engenharia Financeira e Gestão S.A.
Starting Date: 01/01/2022
Final Date: 31/12/2025
Total Investment
104 113 760,38€
EU Financial Support
57 493 212,25€
Associação AlmaScience
Entity Investiment
736 857,35€
FROM FOSSIL TO FOREST
Embalagens e Produtos Sustentáveis para Substituição do Plástico Fóssil
The «From Fossil to Forest» Innovation Pact aims to develop packaging and cellulose-based products to replace fossil plastics.
This transformation focused on the development of innovative forest-based products will be crucial to achieving the goals of the Green Deal, ensuring a socially just transition to an economy that is positive for nature and neutral for the climate.
The development and production of these solutions, still little known at the state-of-the-art level, will be possible through R&D activities, which include tasks related to the development of prototypes, and their subsequent industrialization, which involve production (in an industrial context) of the solutions developed and approved in the following lines of action: (1) high performance pulps and brown papers; (2) papers with greater mechanical resistance; (3) papers with barrier properties; (4) biocomposites; (5) smart packaging paper sensors; (6) molded pulp for rigid packaging.
Navigator Paper Setúbal, S.A.
Norte, Centro, Lisboa e Alentejo.
DATA INÍCIO: 01/10/2021
DATA FINAL: 31/12/2025
Total Cost
103 277 246,99€
UE financial support
34 453 778,07€
Consorcio
1 812 050,15€
Total cost
1 812 050,15€
UE financial support
1 812 050,15€
PT Smart Retail
PT Smart Retail - Portugal como referência para a nova geração de retalho autónomo e inteligente
The Smart Retail agenda brings together 22 entities (19 promoters + 3 partners) from different natures and sectors, aiming at the development, demonstration and industrialization of technologies to support a new generation of retail, with the incorporation of 100% national technology, including dematerialization solutions of processes applied to the sector that allow providing a seamless and ultra-comfortable experience to its users, with relevant economic and environmental efficiency and a remarkable potential for internationalization, contributing to direct the country's specialization profile towards solutions with high added value and for the generation of wealth and employment.
Senseidata, S.A.
Starting date: 01/01/2022
Final date: 31/12/2024
Total Investment
31 234 611,90€
EU Financial Support
17 600 609,64€
Associação AlmaScience
Investment of Entity
1 094 774,82€
Agenda VIIAFOOD
Plataforma de Valorização, Industrialização e Inovação comercial para o AgroAlimentar (n.º C644929456-00000040)
Agenda VIIAFOOD, a project supported under the PRR (www.recuperarportugal.gov.pt), aims to promote the structural transformation of the agri-food sector in line with the purpose established in the Pact for Competitiveness and Internationalization of this national sector.
For this purpose, the VIIAFOOD Agenda intends to create a national platform for the development and industrialization of innovative products, processes and services, materializing in a concerted strategic plan, with joint measures and actions oriented to the transversal objectives of the Sector.
Indeed, the VIIAFOOD Agenda intends to reinforce collaboration between companies in the agri-food industry, companies in other related industries and Research & Development entities to leverage the creation of synergies and the transfer of knowledge and technologies in order to (re)industrialize the Sector Portuguese agrifood.
MC SHARED SERVICES S.A.
49 Beneficiary Entities
Total Investmento
113 739 250,88€
Total financial support
57 872 203,29€
Associação AlmaScience
Entity Investmento
680 792,23€
Past Funding
Designation | Highly qualified employment in companies – Hiring Highly Qualified Human Resources (SME or CoLAB)
Reference | LISBOA-05-3559-FSE-000007
Main objective | Promote employment and support mobility
Region of Intervention | Almada
Beneficiary | 515431156, Associação AlmaScience Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Celulose para Aplicações Inteligentes e Sustentáveis
Approval Date | 05-09-2019
Start Date | 01-04-2020
End Date | 30-06-2022
Total eligible cost | 2 400 000 EUR
EU financial contribution | FSE– 1 200 000,00 EUR
National/Regional financial contribution | 1 200 000,00 EUR
Designation | Highly qualified employment in companies – Hiring Highly Qualified Human Resources (SME or CoLAB)
Reference | CENTRO-04-3559-FSE-000094
Main objective | Promote employment and support mobility
Region of Intervention | Aveiro
Beneficiary | 515431156, Associação AlmaScience Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Celulose para Aplicações Inteligentes e Sustentáveis
Approval Date | 17-10-2019
Start Date | 01-03-2020
End Date | 30-06-2022
Total eligible cost | 533 230,68 EUR
EU financial contribution | FSE– 453 246,08 EUR
National/Regional financial contribution | 79 984,60 EUR