Project description
Improving Poland's capacity in sustainable lightweight castings
The European green transition has spurred countries and organisations to develop and adopt new solutions for industrial production. Countries facing a widening brain drain, like Poland, need more support in achieving this goal. The EU-funded NetCastPL4.0 project aims to improve AGH University of Krakow's innovation capacity and efficiency in sustainable lightweight castings in collaboration with the National Research Council of Italy and the Aalto University in Finland. The ultimate goal is to establish the Networking Pole for Lightweight Castings Sustainability at AGH. The project will implement an effective work plan to strengthen collaboration, knowledge transfer and research exchange between universities, research centres and involved stakeholders, with the crucial target to develop green lightweight castings with improved performance and reduced CO2 emissions.
Objective
NetCastPL4.0 aims to enhance excellence and innovation capacity at AGH in the field of sustainable lightweight castings and to engage the country in pan-European collaborative efforts on this topic twinning with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) and AALTO University (Finland). This will be achieved through an elaborate work plan and a comprehensive set of activities including knowledge transfer, exchange of best practices, the sharing of their research infrastructure, activation of stronger international mobility in research to counteract “brain drain” from Poland, the outreach to foundries of green castings solutions. The knowledge transfer will be achieved through in person training, staff/PhD student exchanges, webinars, thematic workshops, and scientific schools. To demonstrate the value of the twinning exercise, an exploratory research project will also take place to fabricate green lightweight castings components with enhanced mechanical performance and reduced CO2 footprint. In addition, the project will strengthen the research management and administrative skills of AGH staff in order to improve and make more sustainable its research ecosystem. Through the involvement of foundries and relevant lightweight castings industry, NetCastPL4.0 is also expected to help link innovative research with real foundries and industrial needs and therefore lead to the creation of new business opportunities. The knowledge and technology capacity gained through the networking activities in the RDs will be the driving force for create the assets to go beyond the end of the 3-year twinning establishing the Networking Pole for Lightweight Castings Sustainability, to foster the development and uptake of green lightweight castings products and processes innovation in Poland, increase the production and exploitation of intellectual property, grow the opportunities for collaborations with the foundry and industry.
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Funding Scheme
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
30-059 Krakow
Poland