Project description
Training future chemists for a sustainable chemical industry
The chemical industry faces an urgent need to transition towards greener, more sustainable processes. Two critical challenges must be addressed: the utilisation and catalytic transformation of renewable feedstocks, and the design of energy-efficient separation processes. Researchers equipped to tackle both challenges simultaneously are rare. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ChimSep project addresses this by training 13 doctoral candidates across a network of academic institutions, industry partners, and a bioeconomy cluster. Each candidate will develop expertise in both sustainable catalytic synthesis and membrane-based separation processes, conducting research across multiple academic sites with industry secondments. Ultimately, ChimSep aims to strengthen European competitiveness in sustainable chemistry and industrial innovation.
Objective
Two of the major hurdles for the chemical industry transition toward the “chemical factory of the future” are the ability to design (i) efficient and selective catalytic transformations of renewables and (ii) eco-efficient separation processes to retrieve and purify the product(s) and catalyst(s). Future generations of researchers (academic &industry) will need to be trained and equipped with these expertise that constitute the main goal of ChimSep. ChimSep aims at establishing an inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral European Joint Doctorate programme offering challenging and innovative research and training in sustainable catalytic synthesis and sustainable membrane separation processes. The network is based on 7 academics, 7 industrials partners and 1 bio-economy cluster. Such a network gathering internationally renowned experts in the two topics has never been built-up and carried in Europe. ChimSep will implement an unprecedented and high-level training programme in order to provide the 13 Doctorate Candidates (DC) with a double culture/competency in both chemical synthesis and membrane separation. The capability of future European researchers to work at the interface of different domains and to master the entire process chain is a key to increase the competitiveness of European chemical research and industry by the progressive replacement of distillation by membrane processes at least 10 times less energy consuming. Each DC will benefit from training through a research project conducted in two academic sites plus a secondment in industry. DCs will acquire complementary soft skills provided during network events, interdisciplinary summer schools, workshops and a collective research project. All DCs will be hosted few months by industrials. Furthermore, ChimSep has designed an innovative supervision policy to favour fruitful exchanges between DC and senior scientists providing an exceptional training experience, through extensive research and complementary skills development.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-JD - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01
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35042 Rennes
France
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