Project description
Bringing innovation to creative industries
Modern consumer demand calls for a greater range of options, enhanced functionality, seamless integration and personalised customisation. However, current manufacturing processes struggle to efficiently meet these requirements. As a result, there is a growing interest in cutting-edge technologies, processes and materials that can facilitate easier and more cost-effective production. The EU-funded PRESTIGE project aims to leverage advancements in printed functional materials, improved integration techniques and innovative design strategies. The project will introduce new interactive and aesthetically appealing final products with the characteristics sought by the modern creative industry and its customers. Additionally, PRESTIGE seeks to disseminate its findings to stakeholders and designers, acquainting them with these innovative design techniques and printed functional materials.
Objective
Design thinking has become crucial for high added-value product development, especially in the field of creative industries (automotive, art, fashion, luxury, sports…). More specifically, in the context of globalisation, consumers demand greater variety and customization in product offering such as higher aesthetics, functionalities,integrability, reconfigurability or sustainability. Advanced materials and manufacturing processes are key enabling technologies to answer these requirements.
The PRESTIGE project aims at bringing together design-thinking innovation strategies with advanced printed functional materials developments (electroactive fluorinated polymers, photoactive materials, electroactive organic moeities, fluorinated relaxor terpolymers, tailor-made polymers for overmoulding and organo-mineral coating)and integration to demonstrate high-end interactive and aesthetics final products at TRL7 tackling tomorrow’s societal challenges.
Five demonstrators will be developed and disseminated. Three business cases : (i) a haptic steering wheel for enhanced driving-experience (answering safe mobility challenge), (ii) energy harvesting and storage capacities for wearables (answering health, well-being and fashion challenges), (iii) e-plastic labels and oleophobic coatings for a more sustainable multi-use packaging (answering waste management: a major environmental challenge). Moreover, an artistic case (iv) to reach a wide audience of societal stakeholders and a design showcase (v) to increase awareness of designers about new materials.
In PRESTIGE a consortium of 16 partners all along the value chain from designers, material and process scientists, material suppliers, manufacturers, systems integrators, end-users to artists and societal stakeholders has been set-up to stand as a unique European reference in the future fostering design-driven innovation in creative industries and beyond, by promoting their achievements through an SME-oriented cluster of excellence.
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
75015 PARIS 15
France
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Participants (19)
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38240 MEYLAN
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02150 Espoo
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48140 Igorre
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33710 Pugnac
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08635 SANT ESTEVE SES BARCELONA
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90440 Kempele
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CF5 2YB Cardiff
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92230 Gennevilliers
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447 83 Vargarda
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86190 Chire En Montreuil
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92700 Colombes
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G12 8QQ Glasgow
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80799 MUNCHEN
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67200 Strasbourg
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08225 Terrassa
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01100 Bellignat
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9500 Villach
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26504 PLATANI
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69009 Lyon
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