Circular innovative advanced materials: facilitating the transition from design to markets (RIA) (Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU and Made in Europe partnerships)

Enable circularity and resilient supply networks through R&I in advanced materials, in particular recyclable polymers and composites, magnets and metal (alloys) for additive manufacturing, and on accelerating their pathway to market.

Develop new innovative advanced materials (IAMs) with superior or novel functionalities designed for circularity.

Include necessary developments of related processes and technologies to ensure integration in industrial manufacturing facilitating uptake of the developed solutions.

Develop circular business models considering the cost of changes needed along the life cycle of these new materials to facilitate their uptake.

Cover the full innovation cycle from the design for circularity and functional integration (new materials designs), development and scaleup (including scalable recovery, recycling and valorisation at end of life), to demonstration of industrial uptake and integration into products.

Showcase the transformative potential of the developed solutions by demonstrators and industrial use cases.

Explore possibilities to transfer developed solutions to other applications or sectors.

Guide the innovation process towards safer and more sustainable chemicals and advanced materials using the SSbD framework [1].

Share relevant data generated within the proposal with the Common Data Platform for Chemicals (where relevant).

Develop new alternatives that meet the technical functions required in the specific applications while aligning their innovation process decision making with the SSbD framework.

Make best use of digital tools and FAIR data, including AI and data-driven approaches, throughout the innovation process to support the circular transition for industry and circular product design.

Share FAIR and interoperable data and tools across supply networks and value chains to foster circularity, including data needed for materials and component development, production and circular product design.

Adhere to the FAIR data principles and adopt wherever relevant, data standards and data sharing/access good practices.

Foster collaboration among stakeholders along the innovation chain and industrial value networks to accelerate the development and adoption of new circular solutions.

Build on, or seek collaboration with, existing projects in EU Member States and Associated Countries and develop synergies with other relevant European, national or regional initiatives, funding programmes and platforms, in particular with the Materials Commons for Europe.

Support strategic value chains in the fields of mobility and medical devices.

Declare in their proposal the main application area of their proposal (i.e. mobility or medical devices).

Include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination.

Implement the co-programmed European Partnerships Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU (IAM4EU) and Made in Europe (MiE).