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Federated Digital Infrastructure for European Advanced Materials Research and Development

Objective

Advanced materials R&D is crucial to finding solutions for a sustainable future and a competitive European economy. We need innovative materials to address societal challenges such as climate change, technological progress and resource scarcity. However, the current fragmentation in materials science and engineering in Europe hampers collaboration and slows down innovation.
MaterialsCommons is a pioneering project designed to address these critical challenges by creating a federated digital infrastructure for advanced materials. This infrastructure connects researchers from both industry and academia while linking currently isolated resources. MaterialsCommons enables cross-sector collaboration and gives unprecedented access to materials and process data for all users, from materials discovery and synthesis to original equipment manufacturers.
The technical solution is a machine-actionable multi-node ecosystem, centred around a user-friendly MaterialsCommons web entry point. MaterialsCommons will be a living ecosystem with a variety of tools and services to meet the needs of diverse advanced materials communities. Comprehensive, well-documented schemas will be established, together with terminologies, taxonomies and ontologies that serve as a common language across the broad materials community. An interoperable framework for combining existing workflow environments and corresponding software tools will be provided, making each individual node in the development chain FAIR, machine readable and actionable, and reproducible.
The consortium includes 26 academic partners, 21 associated partners and 12 associated collaborators mostly from industry. Six strategically selected use cases from key industrial sectors ensure that the final solution fully meets all user needs, both academic and industrial. Mechanisms will be set up to ensure the long-term sustainability, among others by partners formally committing to continue the infrastructure beyond the project.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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Keywords

Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)

Programme(s)

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Topic(s)

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Funding Scheme

Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.

HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2025-01

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Coordinator

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
Net EU contribution

Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.

€ 5 295 302,60
Address
HANSASTRASSE 27C
80686 MUNCHEN
Germany

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Region
Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Activity type
Research Organisations
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Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

€ 5 295 302,60

Participants (26)

Partners (21)

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